Volume CXXXIII, Number 7 October 26, 2001 f

DJ of the Week: Nate Kosub

1. Song, artist, or album that changed your life?

Uncle Tupelo's Still Feel Gone, crafted by three twentysomethings who spent the best years of their lives in St. Louis bars and mixed country and punk better than anyone has or ever will. It's an album for everything that's right and good about hangovers, blue-collar jobs, and broken hearts.

2. Currently, who puts on the best live performance?

Nothing quite compares to the Texas roadhouse/dancehall circuit, and you can take your pick beyond that: Robert Earl Keen, Wayne Hancock, Flaco Jimenez, Waylon Jennings...

3. What's in your stereo right now? What have you been listening to lately?

Elvis Presley's Sun Sessions, sublime in their simplicity; Ryan Adams' Heartbreaker, the best album of the last five years; Hank Williams' 1949 Health and Happiness Shows; The Flatlanders' More A Legend Than A Band, which did for country what Raw Power did for rock n’ roll; Bruce Springsteen's Alone in Colt's Neck: The Complete Nebraska Sessions; and Merle Haggard's Swinging Doors, for that barlit, beer-soaked feel.

4. Outside of the genre of your show, who is your favorite artist?

The early innovators: Art Tatum, Chuck Berry, Bix Beiderbecke, Howlin' Wolf, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and Buddy Holly.

5. What song are you embarrassed to admit that you love?

Van Halen's "Dance the Night Away," introduced to me as the track my roommate's sexy, edgy cousin says she's never tired of.

Kosub's show, "Sad Trucker Songs," is on Sunday nights 12-1 a.m. on WBOR 91.1.