My earliest memories of listening to music, naturally, are centered around what my parents played. My mother says I responded especially well to Led Zeppelin whilst in utero! Hair metal, in opposition, was another story - and to this day, it's one tiny rock sub-genre that I do not particularly care for. My father is a blues musician, and his influences include Muddy Waters, Johnny Winter, The Allman Brothers, Jimi Hendrix, etc. So I grew up hearing a lot of that stuff.
I listened to oldies radio a good bit as a young child. The first…