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News & Observer music critic David Menconi's random (and we do mean random) musings about all things related to music and culture of the "popular" variety.

Storm victims: WQDR, "Country Legends, 570-AM

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There's been a gap on the local radio waves this week: "Country Legends," the Curtis Media Group-owned country-oldies station at 570-AM, is off the air. But it wasn't victimized by a format switch. Instead, Saturday's storm took down the station's 270-foot-tall broadcast tower.

"It was about two blocks from Earp's Seafood, so the same puff of wind got our tower," says station owner Don Curtis. "It's all twisted and torn up, and it will be about a month before it gets rebuilt because it's in a swamp. It takes a long time to rebuild something in a swamp."

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David Menconi has been the News & Observer's music critic since 1991. Before that, he spent five years at the Daily Camera in Boulder, Colo. He has a masters in journalism from the University of Texas and a B.A. in English from Southwestern University. You can find more of his writing here.

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