I heard so many new things for the first time on his show - John Luther Adams, Caetano Veloso, The Time Curve Preludes, and too many others to name - and listened to artists I already new like Fela Kuti and Nusrat but as if for the first time. Every year the top 10, both John's and the listener poll (never forget that many of these listeners came of age with the show) was an introduction to new artists, new genres and ideas that occupied my musical life for months afterward. Thank you John for changing my life through changing the music I listen to.

Shaloub Razak

London, formerly NY