“This is excellent music… Eat it, breathe it, absorb it! It’ll help you grow in eight ways!”

50 years ago, in 1974, legendary Phoenix radio program director, Bill Compton, wrote those words on the back of a brand spanking new album called “Saving Grace”, released by an unknown singer with a funny last name.

KDKB’s air staff embraced and fell hard for this record, immediately putting 8 tracks - including “Blues on my Table”, “Naomi’s Song, “You and I”, “(Loaded) Like We Used to Do”, and more - on air in full rotation … and so began Arizona’s decades-long love fest with their favorite adopted son, Jerry Riopelle.