It's really been a long, strange trip to XM for George Taylor Morris, especially when you consider he got axed from his first hometown radio job because he broke the rules: He played the Beatles "I Want to Hold Your Hand" when he was supposed to play Matt Monro's "Born Free."

Since those early days as the only California kid who didn't surf, Morris has always found a way to do what he loves best: put the right songs together for the ears of America from FM radio in Boston or Los Angeles to his syndicated show Reelin' in the Years. Now he is looking deep into the careers of some of his favorite artists on Deep Tracks - XM 40.

"What excites me most about building Deep Tracks is that it's a big, blank canvas we're working with now," says Morris, "and those great album tracks we all grew up with and loved—and the special artist interviews about that music—are the colors of the palette we get to paint with here. There are so many great careers that were built on songs that radio has pretended never existed ... and our mission to bring them to the surface again."