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Country & Western

Chimp: I could listen to Merle, Loretta, Buck, Vern and Marty anytime, but face it, even at 70 years old, I'm an outlier for that kind of country music, just as much as I'm an outlier among fans of Morgan Wallen, Jelly Roll and Megan Moroney. It's great that there's an online source for extreme vintage country for those few who remember or have an encyclopedic knowledge of it, but again, this is not an over-the-air station and isn't subject to the kind of financial pressure that American commercial broadcasters are under today. Whatever point you're trying to make by posting these playlists of dusty, cobwebbed songs from an era that a shrinking number of listeners ever lived through is lost on me.
 
I love classic country as much as anybody, that's ,why I started Ashland County's Country-The Barn
But if your limiting yourself to the classic artists of Western music your doing yourself a disfavor. There is still a pretty good underground if Western country artists making music.
James Talley just released a new album full of Western themed country.
Colter Wall is from western Canada and carrying on the Tradition.
Trey Hensley released a record of Western songs written by James Maltese last year that is great.
Asleep at The Wheel just released a new album last year, I clueing a great Western Swing duet with the bluegrass phenom Billy Strings.
Jake Worthington just released a straight up traditional country music record with a great Western Swing song, "My Homes In Oklahoma"
As much as I enjoy playing the classics on the station, I look forward to playing these new artists carrying on the tradition just as much!
 
CTListener said:
It's not like he posted a full week of playlists, or even a full day. I'm sure Miller pops up more than occasionally. His music was popular in the UK, too.
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The show started last week and lasts an hour, and it airs once a week.

Later on, "Have You Ever Been Lonely" by Patsy Cline and Jim Reeves was played alongside Bing, Sinatra, Mantovani and the others.
 
vchimpanzee said:
WBRF Galax VA used to play a lot of this music. I haven't listened as much lately since I quit going to Winston-Salem, but the last time I went there, the station had added the likes of Montgomery Gentry.
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WBRF Classic Country still plays lots of country classics, but specifically Saturday mornings 9 to 11 am they have a show playing older classic country and bluegrass by request. They also run a lot of classic style bluegrass evenings.
 
For pure western music, Sirius/Xm has a one hour a week show of music by western artists and from western movies, etc. hosted by Ranger Doug Green founder of Riders in the Sky with his sidekick ‘Sidemeat’. A funny and very informative show on the history of western music. Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Rex Allen, Sons of the Pioneers and many more including Riders in the Sky.
 
PTBoardOp93 said:
"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.
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In the 1940’s when western movies became big the music of the singing cowboys like Roy Rogers, Gene Autry & Tex Ritter became popular, and the industry labeled it all as ‘hillbilly’ or folk music. In the 1950’s Ernest Tubb and others lobbied for a more respectable label, and the term ‘country and western’ became popular. by the mid-1960s there was little true western songs anymore and country music became the label although some hung onto c&w for years.
 
John1 said:
For pure western music, Sirius/Xm has a one hour a week show of music by western artists and from western movies, etc. hosted by Ranger Doug Green founder of Riders in the Sky with his sidekick ‘Sidemeat’. A funny and very informative show on the history of western music. Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Rex Allen, Sons of the Pioneers and many more including Riders in the Sky.
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You forgot to mention:
What channel?
What time?
 
John1 said:
WBRF Classic Country still plays lots of country classics, but specifically Saturday mornings 9 to 11 am they have a show playing older classic country and bluegrass by request. They also run a lot of classic style bluegrass evenings.
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Well, I can only listen when I can listen. Those hours are when I listen to NPR but I wouldn't likely be able to pick up WBRF in the house. In the car, like I said, it would be NPR. We have hazardous waste collection this Saturday but I'm waiting until I have more. I have two bottles of drain cleaner (though the sink never was really stopped up) and my toilet cleaner is still not empty.
 
vchimpanzee said:
I'm tired of playing second fiddle to your guitar.
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Huh?

(I don't get it... is it from a song? And what is the context here? )

It sort of matches the Jean Shephard song, but not exactly.
 
davideduardo said:
Huh?

(I don't get it... is it from a song? And what is the context here? )

It sort of matches the Jean Shephard song, but not exactly.
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People often make fun of country lyrics. It is similar to the Jean Shepard song I just heard.

Here's another lyric: Next time I fall in love, I won't.

And I just learned where Christopher Columbus got "round, firm and fully packed" when trying to get Ferdinand and Isabella to finance his voyage in the Bugs Bunny cartoon.
 
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Mitch Brewer said:
That's an interesting playlist.
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Are you referring to the special program or the three songs in my above post?

And if you are referring to the special program it is this afternoon. You could listen, of course, or if you are interested, I could post some more songs. Last week Crystal Gayle was played, which I thought was very strange. They weren't doing that pop-sounding crossover music before that.
 
If you are in fact interested in the playlist, here's today's.
Ian Tyson - Fifty Years Ago
Asleep at the Wheel, Dolly Parton - Billy Dale
Eddy Arnold - Seven Years With The Wrong Woman
Roy Drusky and Priscilla Mitchell - Yes Mr. Peters
Tom T Hall - Back When Gas Was 30c a Gallon
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen - Down to Seeds and Stems Again
Marty Robbins - The Cowboy In The Continental Suit
Lefty Frizzell - Don't Let Her See Me Cry
Charlie Walker - Close All The Honky Tonks
Alvin Crow - West Texas Wind
Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys - Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong
Alan Riddle - The Moon Is Crying
Johnnie and Jack with Ruby Wells - I Want To Be Loved
Kitty Wells - There's Poison In Your Heart
Hank Thompson - There's A Honky Tonk Angel
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys - Take Me Back to Tulsa
Billy Walker - Cross The Brazos At Waco
Eddie Noack - Too Hot To Handle
Merle Haggard - Branded Man
Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper - Come Walk With Me
 
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