My Heroes Have Always Been DJ's

You can turn any country music song about rodeos or cowboys and make it a song about people in radio. Just change rodeo to radio and cowboy to DJ and the story matches closely to that of the story of a typical radio DJ.

You may recognize this song from Willie Nelson...

"I grew up a-dreamin' of bein' a DJ,
and Lovin' the DJ ways.
Pursuin' the life of my high-ridin' heroes,
I burned up my childhood days.
I learned of all the rules of the modern-day drifter,
Don't you hold on to nothin' too long...."

It works for Garth's 'Rodeo' too!

"It'll drive a DJ crazy
It'll drive the man insane
And he'll sell off everything he owns
Just to pay to play the game
And a broken home and some broken bones
Is all he'll have to show
For all the years that he spent chasin'
This dream they call radio."

Growing up in Houston, I listened to the radio constantly! Listening to my radio heroes. If you were on the radio in the mid 80's into the 90's, you were probably one of them...  Eventually, wiggling my way onto the air in high school. Some of those 'DJ' songs have rung true in my life in radio: A modern day drifter, broken homes, and all those years chasing that damned ol' radio. My Heroes Have Always Been DJ's and 16 years later... I've sacrificed alot, and I wouldn't have missed a minute.