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vchimpanzee

Does anyone play it anymore? Well, I know of one station that does. At least for an hour a week.

Willie Nelson - Good Hearted Woman
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys - Big Balls in Cowtown
Sons Of The Pioneers - Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Patsy Cline - Three Cigarettes In An Ashtray
Patsy Montana and Charles Hurt - Swingin' Done the Orchard Lane
Hank Williams - Howlin' at the Moon
Rose Maddox - Sing A Little Song Of Heartache
Ray Price - Crazy Arms
Eddy Arnold - Cattle Call
Gene Autry - Back In The Saddle
 
vchimpanzee said:
Does anyone play it anymore? Well, I know of one station that does. At least for an hour a week.

Willie Nelson - Good Hearted Woman
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys - Big Balls in Cowtown
Sons Of The Pioneers - Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Patsy Cline - Three Cigarettes In An Ashtray
Patsy Montana and Charles Hurt - Swingin' Done the Orchard Lane
Hank Williams - Howlin' at the Moon
Rose Maddox - Sing A Little Song Of Heartache
Ray Price - Crazy Arms
Eddy Arnold - Cattle Call
Gene Autry - Back In The Saddle
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Looks like Sunday morning fare on a dying AM or a weak rural translator. Are you prepared to reveal the identity of this station and the time slot for this old-time country music hour, or are you going to keep us guessing out of fear that you might somehow be exposing sensitive personal information by doing so?

Oh, and classic country WCNL Newport/Claremont, NH, plays Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline and even occasional Hank Sr. songs in its regular rotation. It proudly boasts of playing seven decades of country music, from the '50s through today, although the focus is mainly '70s through '90s.
 
serenade-radio.com

The normal format is standards, but they debuted this new show today.

Here's the rest of the hour.

George Jones and Tammy Wynette - Will You Travel Down This Road With Me
Jimmy Wakely and Arthur Smith - Take Me Back to Tennessee
Wynn Stewart - Playboy
Eddie Noack - Take It Away Lucky
Don Gibson - Blue, Blue Day
Conway Twitty - Hello Darlin'
Dale Watson - A Real Country Song
Ernest Tubb - Walking The Floor Over You
Rosie Flores - Honky Tonk Moon
Marty Robbins - Little Joe the Wrangler

The DJ said let us know if you liked it. Let us know if you didn't like it.
 
vchimpanzee said:
serenade-radio.com

The normal format is standards, but they debuted this new show today.

Here's the rest of the hour.

George Jones and Tammy Wynette - Will You Travel Down This Road With Me
Jimmy Wakely and Arthur Smith - Take Me Back to Tennessee
Wynn Stewart - Playboy
Eddie Noack - Take It Away Lucky
Don Gibson - Blue, Blue Day
Conway Twitty - Hello Darlin'
Dale Watson - A Real Country Song
Ernest Tubb - Walking The Floor Over You
Rosie Flores - Honky Tonk Moon
Marty Robbins - Little Joe the Wrangler

The DJ said let us know if you liked it. Let us know if you didn't like it.
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Oh, you didn't say it was an overseas-based internet streamer. I'd imagine that it will find an audience in the UK, where that kind of vintage country has had a devoted following for decades. I listen to a couple of internet stations in England (XLR Radio and Beaver Radio) that have one- or two-hour specialty shows, and artists like Cline, Price, Robbins, Don Williams and the like are regularly played and requested.
 
This might be too upbeat for the snoozefest that is Serenade Radio. It's a move in a better direction, besides that extremely obscure instrumental stuff they usually play. It's really boring to listen to....and this is coming from someone who likes Standards and instrumentals!
 
KWMT in Ft. Dodge, IA has some of this music on its playlist, along with newer classic country from the 1980s and 1990s.

I think my favorite has to be KCWM-AM licensed to Hondo (it's about 30 minutes west of San Antonio), TX. While KCWM plays a mix of early and modern classic country during the weekdays and Saturdays, it leaves Sunday afternoons and evenings to play the kinds of artists and playlists listed here. The best part of the KCWM Sunday show, however, is its branding which goes:

"This isn't your pappy's country. It's your grandpappy's country!"

It's concise and succinctly points out why most classic country stations no longer play this music.
 
I always thought "Western" music was the cowboy songs and/or songs about being sentimental in the open frontier West, such as "Red River Valley", "Cool Water" "Cattle Call" and "Home On The Range". And Country music was everything else rural. Does this track?

Basically (since the West is settled and now up to here in box stores, strip malls and chain restaurants), any country song that mentions cowboys and the cowboy life in a factual way and not as a metaphor today could be categorized as Western. But Western music overall as a solitary genre, outside of stations like KHIL Willcox, AZ (are they still around?) is pretty much dead everywhere.
 
Bongwater said:
I always thought "Western" music was the cowboy songs and/or songs about being sentimental in the open frontier West, such as "Red River Valley", "Cool Water" "Cattle Call" and "Home On The Range". And Country music was everything else rural. Does this track?

Basically (since the West is settled and now up to here in box stores, strip malls and chain restaurants), any country song that mentions cowboys and the cowboy life in a factual way and not as a metaphor today could be categorized as Western. But Western music overall as a solitary genre, outside of stations like KHIL Willcox, AZ (are they still around?) is pretty much dead everywhere.
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Yes, KHIL-AM is still alive and well in Wilcox, AZ. Also, there is the very limited wattage KJAG-FM licensed to Guthrie, TX (in a very sparsely populated section of the northern part of the state),, that calls itself "the cowboy capital of the world," and primarily focuses on western, rather than, country music.
 
KJAG is in a tiny town of maybe 125 and that would be th entire radio audience. Haven't checked them out in a few years but recall they had one advertiser, the car dealer in Jayton. Any other ads on the half hour are from their online stream
 
Bongwater said:
I always thought "Western" music was the cowboy songs and/or songs about being sentimental in the open frontier West, such as "Red River Valley", "Cool Water" "Cattle Call" and "Home On The Range". And Country music was everything else rural. Does this track?
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"Western" music was largely based in Texas and Oklahoma, and did include many of the tracks you listed. Bob Wills was one of the most famous Western acts. Many of those acts eventually relocated to Nashville. Wills eventually became a member of the Grand Ole Opry. By the early 1960s, it was clear that the Nashville style was the more commercially successful style. Nashville became the center of the industry, minimizing the "western" label over time.
 
Western music dates all the way back to the 1870''s, songs that cattleman would sing to soothe their cattle, and to while away the lonely hours.
 
There's a great short documentary on YouTube titled "Lonesome Willcox", that was made in 2017 about KHIL and it's owner.

Cowboy actor and singer Rex Allen, founded the station in 1958.
 
Anyone want to see what songs Serenade Radio is playing today? One of them was recorded by a Birt.

Jeannie Black - He'll Have To Stay
Jim Reeves - He'll Have To Go
Johnny Bond - The Daughter of Jole Blon'
Tex Williams - Won't You Ride in My Little Red Wagon
Merle Haggard - The Bottle Let Me Down
Timi Yuro and Willie Nelson - There's a Way
Lorette Lynn - Coal Miners Daughter
Buck Owens - Cryin' Time
Houston Wells - This Song Is Just For You
Hank Penny - Sweet Talkin' Mama
 
The rest of the hour:

Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys - Osage Stomp
Vern Gosdin - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke
Spade Cooley - Hide Your Face
Jean Shepard - Second Fiddle To An Old Guitar
Bill Boyd and His Cowboy Ramblers - Too Blue to Care
Red Foley - Hang Your Head in Shame
Milton Brown and The Musical Brownies - Easy Ridin' Papa
Hank Thompson - Lovin' On Back Streets
Slim Whitman - Candy Kisses
Marty Robbins - The Strawberry Roan
 


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