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I first heard that song by ZZ Top back in the day when I was in Louisville, KY as my first job out of college.
The radio station there, WLRS (Louisville Radio Station, but they referred to themselves as "walrus radio") was quite good in what they played. Not as good as the "Radio Free Fort Knox" station that I found in the under 92MHz portion of the FM band there. The latter remains an enigma. But I digress ...
So, when I first heard "La Grange" on air, I called the WLRS DJ (back in the day, that was easy to do) and asked him for details about the song, i.e., title and artist.
He told me "La Grange." I asked him to spell it, because it did not understand him, and he said, you know like the prison. I then told him I had been in Louisville for only a short time, so I didn't understand the reference. He told me, ~hold on, I have to do a commercial break~ when he came back a few minutes later, we talked a lot about the music scene in Louisville (which was excellent!).
It was somewhat of my "Welcome to Louisville" welcome basket for me.
and, fwiw ...
Kentucky State Reformatory
corrections.ky.gov
... The Kentucky State Reformatory is located in LaGrange, Kentucky which is approximately 30 miles North-East of Louisville. It is a medium security facility under the administration of the Kentucky Justice Cabinet, Department of Corrections with a 759-bed capacity. ...
