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Knowing that the world surely must be in desperate need of another middle-aged singer/songwriter/traffic-reporter, Randy Chepigan remains obsessed with writing quirky and attemptedly-literate semi-acoustic emo garage pop, whenever the rest of his life allows the elusive spare moment.

Foremost in preventing him from doing more of this is a continuing day gig for the past 28+ years as a musically-savvy-yet-goofy radio traffic reporter guy. Currently heard babbling incessant traffic every weekday afternoon on public radio WHYY 90.9 FM Philadelphia, classical WRTI 90.1 FM Philadelphia, top 40/rhythmic WPHI 100.3 FM Philadelphia ("100.3 The Beat, Interactive Hip-Hop and R&B"), hot a/c WSJO 104.9 FM South Jersey ("South Jersey's Own, SoJO 104-9"), urban talk WURD 900 AM Philadelphia ("Your Information Station, Committed To Solutions"), SIRIUS/XM Channel 149 ("First Traffic for Philadelphia"), classic rock WEZX 106.9 FM Wilkes-Barre/Scranton ("Rock 107") and country WSJR 93.7 FM Wilkes-Barre/Scranton ("J.R. 93-7") -- and continuing to merely grouse about management duties the rest of each work day. Amidst his sordid past, he's been a part of various other popular Philly radio incarnations, including aaa WXPN, nostalgia/oldies WPEN, hot a/c "96-5 The Point", rock WMMR, all-news KYW, top 40 "Eagle 106", urban a/c WDAS, newstalk WWDB, and a fond but distant memory of the first "modern rock" station in Philly, "I-92 Rock of the 80's"!

Since this is really pushing it as a claim to semi-fame, he also played and recorded with lots o' bands with pitifully modest success from the mid-70's 'til the mid-90's, since then channeling the sparse remaining energy to family and day gig. But he continued all the while locking himself into small rooms to write and record a few times per year.

And so, in mid-2005, Randy finally started to VERY GRADUALLY record some of the most recent stuff for internet release. Roughly an EP's worth of tracks now available for purchase through the Snocap store above. Please feel free to purchase some tracks for your very own. ("Any reasoning for such a purchase is encouraged and much-appreciated -- affection, pity, charity, actual enjoyment or all of the above...") Given the utter lack of available free time to record, these tracks may either continue to be released individually online, or may EVENTUALLY be gathered into some kind of attemptedly cohesive EP or CD collection. If that ever does happen, after prerequisite multiple delays -- ("Get it? It's almost as if it's on purpose!"), it'll be called "Delays Major and Minor". ("Meanwhile, y'know, my pretense is that I'm purposely eschewing the old-fashioned CD format in favor of this happenin' download hipness. Absolutely nothing to do with my ridiculously-slow output rate or anything...")

And hey, if you REALLY have some free time (to devour such fascinating details as favorite tv shows and such,) you're also always welcome at Randy's personal-type MySpace page as well, though frankly, y'know, there's even less going on there.

Thanks for stopping by.