Nostalgie La Rochelle

Nostalgie's La Rochelle frequency does one thing, and it does it with conviction: French hits from the '60s through the '90s, the stuff that soundtracked family dinners and long drives down the coast. Think Michel Sardou, Renaud, Véronique Sanson, Johnny Hallyday. Serge Gainsbourg turns up more often than you'd expect from a nostalgia format. The mood is warm, unhurried, slightly sentimental in the best way. Don't come here for new music. That's not the job. What you get instead is a steady diet of chanson and variété française, the canon that French radio has largely set aside for younger pla…