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Bay Area country formats - what would work today?

marshallstax said:
Any chance this would work around here?
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Depends on what you mean by "work." It looks like community radio, not something that would attract the kind of numbers that would allow anyone to get paid. But it might be a nice hobby radio station, as long as those involved have a well-paying full time job.
 
TheBigA said:
By the way, I've seen Dolly many times, and she has NEVER played the fiddle. I don't know where you came up with that idea. Or the banjo.
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I've seen her play banjo in person. I have also seen her play a fiddle intro to a song (I don't remember which). I have not seen her play an entire song or a bridge with fiddle so I don't know how good she is. You must have been to one of her pop concerts rather than one of her country concerts.

As to sophistication and trashing of "the Hee-Haw crowd", I'd say that you haven't evaluated the quality of the music Hee-Haw has presented over the years.
 
DavidKaye said:
You must have been to one of her pop concerts rather than one of her country concerts.
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You have a vivid imagination. Dolly doesn't do "pop concerts." And as I clearly pointed out with her Billboard chart history, only two of her songs crossed over to pop.
 
TheBigA said:
You have a vivid imagination. Dolly doesn't do "pop concerts." And as I clearly pointed out with her Billboard chart history, only two of her songs crossed over to pop.
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All I can say is that I saw her live at the Roxy in LA about 4 years ago where she started "Only Dreaming" with a fiddle riff, well, basically a tip-to-tip draw with some drone harmony. She also did "Backwoods Barbie" (one of my faves), but I don't think she did any fiddle on that.

I also saw her live at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in San Francisco a few years ago, where she played banjo. The sound cut in and out a few times, but I was close enough to see that she was picking.
 
marshallstax said:
The folks at Range Radio are trying to spread their new format...

http://www.rangeradio.com/

Any chance this would work around here?
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Well, it works with me. When I first listened it had a string of novelty songs including, "Smoke Smoke Smoke That Cigarette" and stuff like that. Now that I've given it a couple hours, I absolutely LOVE it. Who can go wrong with Ian Tyson, after all?

Could it work around here? I'd give it a 50-50 chance of working on an FM. If I were a PD and the Range Radio network were available to me on barter with 6 to 8 minutes of local avails per hour I'd try it.
 
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