Deep Tracks
Encyclopedia
Deep Tracks is a Sirius XM Radio channel featuring deep cut
s of classic rock
music, which encompasses lesser known album tracks, one-hit wonders, concert recordings, "forgotten 45s" and "B-side" tracks. The channel's format resembles progressive
rock radio of the early 1970s.
Earle Bailey is Deep Tracks' current programming director and one of its on-air voices; Pat St. John
and Meg Griffin
are also heard regularly on the channel during the week, with Dan Neer, Michael Tearson
, and Pam Merly appearing on weekends. The original programmer for the channel, the late George Taylor Morris
, departed in the summer of 2008 due to health issues.
The station appears as channel
27 (previously 40) on XM Satellite Radio
, channel 27 (previously on 16) on Sirius Satellite Radio
(replacing The Vault
on November 12, 2008
) and was available online through AOL Radio
. It can also be heard on Dish Network
channel 6016 and was also on DirecTV
channel 840 until February 9, 2010
. As of April 2009, this channel has changed its logo, taking the logo from former XM channel Top Tracks
, which was replaced by Classic Vinyl
post-Sirius/XM merger.
From August 14–16, 2009
, the channel was temporarily preempted for The Woodstock Channel, in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock Festival
. The channel aired artists that played at the concert, including live recordings from the original 1969 festival. The channel reverted back to the Deep Tracks name and format on August 17.
From February 4–8, 2010
, the channel was once again preempted for The Who
Radio.
Deep Cut
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s of classic rock
Classic rock
Classic rock is a radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock format in the early 1980s. In the United States, the classic rock format features music ranging generally from the late 1960s to the late 1980s, primarily focusing on the hard rock genre that peaked in popularity in the...
music, which encompasses lesser known album tracks, one-hit wonders, concert recordings, "forgotten 45s" and "B-side" tracks. The channel's format resembles progressive
Progressive rock (radio format)
Progressive rock is a radio station programming format that prospered in the late 1960s and 1970s, in which the disc jockeys are given wide latitude in what they may play, similar to the freeform format but with the proviso that some kind of rock music is almost always what is played...
rock radio of the early 1970s.
Earle Bailey is Deep Tracks' current programming director and one of its on-air voices; Pat St. John
Pat St. John
Pat St. John is one of the U.S.'s preeminent and longest serving radio personalities and voice artists. Known as The Dee-Jay’s DJ, he began his radio career on Windsor, Canada's CKLW in 1969, but is best known for his work in the New York City market on WPLJ, WNEW-FM, WCBS-FM and WAXQ...
and Meg Griffin
Meg Griffin (radio personality)
Meg Griffin is an American DJ, currently heard on the Sirius XM Satellite Radio channels The Loft, Classic Rewind, and Deep Tracks....
are also heard regularly on the channel during the week, with Dan Neer, Michael Tearson
Michael Tearson
Michael Tearson is an American pioneer underground DJ, concert and special appearance host, author and actor.-Biography:Michael Tearson was born in 1948, Baltimore, Maryland. Attended The Park School, Brooklandville, Maryland. His father had attended the University of Pennsylvania and his mother...
, and Pam Merly appearing on weekends. The original programmer for the channel, the late George Taylor Morris
George Taylor Morris
George Taylor Morris was a United States disk jockey and radio personality who grew up with and on the radio. Initially working on AM Radio, then switching to the FM Radio format, Morris' career evolved to where he became a "founding father of satellite radio at Sirius XM", according to the station...
, departed in the summer of 2008 due to health issues.
The station appears as channel
Channel (communications)
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27 (previously 40) on XM Satellite Radio
XM Satellite Radio
XM Satellite Radio is one of two satellite radio services in the United States and Canada, operated by Sirius XM Radio. It provides pay-for-service radio, analogous to cable television. Its service includes 73 different music channels, 39 news, sports, talk and entertainment channels, 21 regional...
, channel 27 (previously on 16) on Sirius Satellite Radio
Sirius Satellite Radio
Sirius Satellite Radio is a satellite radio service operating in North America, owned by Sirius XM Radio.Headquartered in New York City, with smaller studios in Los Angeles and Memphis, Sirius was officially launched on July 1, 2002 and currently provides 69 streams of music and 65 streams of...
(replacing The Vault
The Vault (Sirius)
The Vault was a classic rock music channel that aired on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 16 and Dish Network channel 6016. The channel was officially dropped on November 12, 2008 because of the Sirius-XM merger, and replaced by XM's Deep Tracks....
on November 12, 2008
2008 in radio
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) and was available online through AOL Radio
AOL Radio
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. It can also be heard on Dish Network
Dish Network
Dish Network Corporation is the second largest pay TV provider in the United States, providing direct broadcast satellite service—including satellite television, audio programming, and interactive television services—to 14.337 million commercial and residential customers in the United States. Dish...
channel 6016 and was also on DirecTV
DirecTV
DirecTV is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider and broadcaster based in El Segundo, California. Its satellite service, launched on June 17, 1994, transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, Latin America, and the Anglophone Caribbean. ...
channel 840 until February 9, 2010
2010 in radio
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. As of April 2009, this channel has changed its logo, taking the logo from former XM channel Top Tracks
Top Tracks
Top-Tracks was a fully automated XM classic rock channel. The station was available on XM 46 and DirecTV Channel 833 . The channel focuses on classic rock artists such as The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, and some...
, which was replaced by Classic Vinyl
Classic Vinyl
Classic Vinyl is a Sirius XM Satellite Radio channel focusing on classic rock music mostly from the late-1960s to the mid-1970s. It broadcasts on Sirius channel 26 , XM channel 26 , and Dish Network channel 6014...
post-Sirius/XM merger.
From August 14–16, 2009
2009 in radio
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, the channel was temporarily preempted for The Woodstock Channel, in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock Festival
Woodstock Festival
Woodstock Music & Art Fair was a music festival, billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music". It was held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm in the Catskills near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to August 18, 1969...
. The channel aired artists that played at the concert, including live recordings from the original 1969 festival. The channel reverted back to the Deep Tracks name and format on August 17.
From February 4–8, 2010
2010 in radio
The following events occurred in radio in 2010.-Events:*Date Unknown: CHOI/Quebec City flips from Alternative Rock to News/Talk.*January 4: KJCS/Lufkin, Texas goes silent....
, the channel was once again preempted for The Who
The Who
The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964 by Roger Daltrey , Pete Townshend , John Entwistle and Keith Moon . They became known for energetic live performances which often included instrument destruction...
Radio.
Programming
Deep Tracks is the home of a couple high profile programs on XM Radio, in addition to several specialty programs.- Theme Time Radio HourTheme Time Radio HourTheme Time Radio Hour was a weekly, one-hour satellite radio show hosted by Bob Dylan originally airing from May 2006 to April 2009...
with Bob DylanBob DylanBob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
- Wednesdays at 10 AM ET/7 AM PT. Bob Dylan becomes the DJ for one hour every week on the channel, with several replays. Each week, Dylan chooses a new theme for the playlist he hand picks. Most of the songs Dylan chooses are obscure titles which are not in XM's library, and have to be searched out by creative director Lee AbramsLee AbramsLee Abrams is an American media executive who has held a number of posts for large and influential companies, and is generally credited with developing the "Album Oriented Rock" format employed by hundreds of radio stations across the country.-Career:...
. Encore presentations of the show air Wednesdays on The VillageThe Village (XM)The Village is an XM Satellite Radio channel that specializes in folk music, described by XM as "from the ballads of early American songwriters to the contemporary masters of folk." It is available on channel 62 on XM and on Sirius internet radio channel SIR-8. Until February 9, 2010 it was...
(XM 15), and Sundays on The Spectrum (Sirius 18/XM 45). The show is syndicated to the United KingdomUnited KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
's BBC Radio 2BBC Radio 2BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBC's national radio stations and the most popular station in the United Kingdom. Much of its daytime playlist-based programming is best described as Adult Contemporary or AOR, although the station is also noted for its specialist broadcasting of other musical genres...
and BBC 6 MusicBBC 6 MusicBBC 6 Music is one of the BBC's digital radio stations, was launched on 11 March 2002 and originally codenamed Network Y. It was the first national music radio station to be launched by the BBC in 32 years....
. - Tom PettyTom PettyThomas Earl "Tom" Petty is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and was a founding member of the late 1980s supergroup Traveling Wilburys and Mudcrutch. He has also performed under the pseudonyms of Charlie T...
's Buried Treasure - Aired Mondays at 10 AM ET/7 AM PT. Tom Petty broadcasted each week from his Los Angeles home, bringing together a playlist of classic songs and obscure music from his collection. The show went on hiatus as Petty wished to devote his time to other projects, but soon returned to the airwaves. The show formerly aired all day Thursdays on XM2, XMX. - Old, New, Borrowed and Blue - Weekdays at 9 AM ET/6 AM PT. Listeners send in their four-song set suggestions to Deep Tracks to play on the air, as long as the set includes something old, something new, something borrowed (a cover song), and something blue (a blues track, a sad song or even one with "blue" in the title).
- King Biscuit Flower HourKing Biscuit Flower HourThe King Biscuit Flower Hour was a syndicated radio show presented by the D.I.R. Radio Network that featured concert performances by various rock artists.-History:...
- Mondays at 3 PM ET/Noon PT. A nationally syndicated music show consisting of live performances from acclaimed rock bands. Encores are Tuesdays at 9 PM ET and Saturdays at 3 AM ET. - Fresh Tracks - Mondays at 10 PM ET/7 PM PT. This weekly show plays new music from familiar artists.
- All Hand-Mixed Vinyl - Tuesdays at 10 AM ET/7 AM PT. Hosted by Bill Fitzhugh. Setlists are at http://www.billfitzhugh.com/.
- Deep Tracks Undercover - Tuesdays at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT and Fridays and Saturdays at midnight ET/9 PM PT. This show features very recognized cover songs.
- The Grateful Dead Hour - Wednesdays at 11 PM ET/8 PM PT. Hosted by David GansDavid Gans----David ben Solomon ben Seligman Gans was a Jewish mathematician, historian, astronomer, astrologer, and is best known for the works Tzemach David and Nechmad ve'naim.- Early life :...
, this show features live Grateful DeadGrateful DeadThe Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, improvisational jazz, psychedelia, and space rock, and for live performances of long...
performances and covers from other artists. - Final Friday Concert Series - On the last Friday of each month, this show appears on Deep Tracks to broadcast live concerts from the XM Performance Theater.
- The Blacklight Room - Fridays at 10 PM ET/7 PM PT. This is a specialty show for psychedelic music. Encores are Sundays at 2 AM ET.
- Earle Bailey's Headtrips - Saturdays at 5 PM ET/2 PM PT. This show features songs that tie in to a certain theme. The show is similar to Theme Time Radio Hour but with a more contemporary approach.
- The Art of Rock - Interviews with rock and roll artists.
- The Deep Tracks Box Set Symphony - A music and informative interview show based around music box-set releases. The show plays every song on the featured set, interlaced with interviews and stories from the band members and their friends.