In 2022, KQ called up Steve Gorman, the legendary drummer for the Black Crowes, who was living in Nashville, and asked him to consider replacing broadcast legend Tom Barnard in 2023, who was retiring, sort of. “I thought, ‘Hell yeah!’ ” says Gorman, who embraces the philosophy “Get in over your head and figure out how tall you are.” That said, Gorman had been doing radio for 15 years—sports talk in Nashville and for Fox Sports Radio, then a nightly syndicated music show for Westwood One, plus a lot of Thursday appearances on Barnard’s show. (He had turned down other similar offers, he says.) “I’m the rare drummer for a rock band who can complete a sentence,” he quips. He says he was given the license to make the show his and in 2024 hopes to put in place “a lot of the ideas I came here with but didn’t implement,” including occasional live music. His new band, Bag Men, performed at 7th Street Entry in November.

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