Hi I like to find any stations that play country hits from the 90's, especially the artists that were popular in 1994, not like what they do in 2010. I like Dwight Yoakum & he's from Bakersfield, but his music won't be rarely heard on country radio, & he was in the peak of his career back then. I know Alabama had their last #1 in 1993 with Reckless, & their popularity declined after "Give Me One More Shot", which turned out to be end of it's band. Tanya Tucker, which she last had a #1 in 1988, also saw her popularity decline & had her last top 10 in 1997 with "Little Things". I know Toby, Faith, Martina & Tim started their careers & they're still popular, George & Alan still have #1 hits to this day, Garth, Randy (Travis, not Owen) & Billy Ray were at the peak of his popularity, & Kenny, Shania & Terri Clark were a year away from their first top 10's. How about the other artists who made their peaks in the 90's like Ty Herndon, Deana Carter, David Kirsh, Marty Stuart, Shenandoah, The Mavericks, Diamond Rio, Collin Raye, Travis Tritt, John Berry, John Anderson, John Michael Montgomery, David Ball, Sammy Kershaw, Little Texas, Rhett Akins, Doug Stone, Doug Supernaw, Joe Diffie, Mark Chesnutt, Lee Roy Parnell, Billy Dean, Chely Wright, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Pam Tillis, Patty Loveless & Wade Hayes? They seemed to do well & all of a sudden, they stopped making hits. What's up with that? Was it because of losing TNN & that CMT was doing very well? Also, I heard there were heritage country stations like WYNY, KRPM, KFAT (Corvallis), KSAN, KRAK-FM, KNAX, KNEW, KFMS & later KZLA had do something with the decline of country radio because of competition, consolidation or that smaller record groups were merging at the same time. We know country radio is still the most popular format out there & do you think where can I find a station in this country that plays the songs from that era? I bet K-hog 750 from Fallon, NV plays the artists that country radio used to play in 1993-94, are there any others?
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I want to hear some 90's country, please!
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At Country K-Flag 94.7 95.9 and 106.7 in Kingman, Laughlin, Parker, Blythe, Bullhead, Havasu, 29 Palms...We feature the 90's at Noon every weekday Noon-1pm. Plus we mix in those 90's all week long 24/7 and also feature the 90's on Tow Fer Twosdays and Doubleshot Sundays!
You are in luck, dgendvil. I just launched a web station the other day that plays lots and lots of 90's country as well as the 80's and a few hand-picked songs from other decades. I'm also featuring patriotic music twice every hour thru Monday.
http://kevincountry.com
http://kevincountry.com
As ws stated somewheres, the problem is you had so many songs at the "beginning" of the young country movement that many good songs got lost and now the 90s that are played are for the most part approaching burnout. Many of the 90s songs in my opinion could be played today and most newer country listeners wouldn't know they were almost 20 years old.
But yeah many of the stations don't like putting oh wow songs out there, and the classic country stations are just now hitting on the songs as they approach 20 years old. I personally love oh wow songs in rotation even with songs from the early part of 2000s which got lost in the country pop movement that was hard a foot at that time.
BTW, Yokum is actually from Kentucky/Ohio but found his success in the San Joaquin Valley of California due to him wanting to rock his country and made a good living at it, but as of late has had made more money off the movie industry such as with the Crank movie franchise
But yeah many of the stations don't like putting oh wow songs out there, and the classic country stations are just now hitting on the songs as they approach 20 years old. I personally love oh wow songs in rotation even with songs from the early part of 2000s which got lost in the country pop movement that was hard a foot at that time.
BTW, Yokum is actually from Kentucky/Ohio but found his success in the San Joaquin Valley of California due to him wanting to rock his country and made a good living at it, but as of late has had made more money off the movie industry such as with the Crank movie franchise
The local country station I listen to, WSSL, plays some 90s country. Jo Dee Messina, George Strait, Garth Brooks, Little Texas (What Might Have Been), all the big Faith and Shania hits (mostly the crossovers), etc.
dgendvil said:
It's a cycle. It happened to George Jones, Merle Haggard, and Willie Nelson. They had a string of hits, then it stops, and the next batch of singers come in. They have hits for a few years, and then the next batch comes in. There are only so many hours in the day. You can't keep adding new artists without leaving out some of the old ones. Sure, Alan Jackson, George Strait, Reba McEntire, and a few more have managed to be consistent during all this time. But it reminds me of the game Musical Chairs. When the music stops, if you don't have a chair, you're out of the game. That's what's happened to a lot of the folks you named.
If you like 90s country you should check out the stream of KTNN/Window Rock Arizona. This station is run by the Navajo Nation. They play tons of 90s country from the biggest hits to songs you completely forgot about. They also play one or two currents an hour, some classic country, as well as Navajo music but overall they live in the 90s.
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sdh483 said:
The problem is a lot of major markets don't have a classic country station. And the 1, 2, (maybe even 3 if you are lucky) country stations on the dial tend to stick to playing songs that are less than 10 years old, and have a very restrictive playlist. What's the point of having 3 country stations in a market if they all sound the same? I have been listening to Sirius/XM's Prime Country channel for a while now(which plays nothing but 90's country). Sure beats what's on terrestrial radio nowdays.
We play a country mix on WLRE and try to stick with what sounds country. The 90's was a great time when country music let loose of the control on country sound some what that era gave us some truly great sounding country music. It was before the greed factor pushed country into pop, rock, rap, and basicly crap music of today. I am not saying that there is no good country music comming out today but it is really getting hard to clear it out from all the other crap that country is putting out that doesn't sound like country music anymore. A lot of times you get a singer or group that puts out a good song today but followes it by a mix of music that just doesn't sound near as good as their country song did basicly a bad mix of country and something else. In the 90's the country music movement was still pretty natural and following what the general public liked to hear in their country. That of course hasn't been the case in the last twelve years or so due to outside forces pushing the music in different directions which caused a lot of good music people in Nashville from singer/songwriters to producers, managers, ect.. to get out while there was still some country left in the music and retire or quit way too early before they were possibly forced out. This as been going on for so long now that a lot of people think it is natural progression of country music (it is not) which is what the outside forces wanted from the very beginning. We play a lot of the 90's country on our station 24 hours a day.
Gatekeeper007 said:
Huh? Are you saying the major labels weren't greedy in the 90s? Or in the 60s? Have you ever heard of CountryPolitan, and what the goal of it was? And who are these "outside forces?" The same people have been running country music in Nashville for 20 years. Sounds like a big conspiracy theory to me.
Agree with that. Many of the Alan Jackson songs played on the "new Country" stations today are from the 90's & they fit right in.RFLA said:
"She's Country" Jason Aldean.....first time I heard that, I thought "Oh great. Now we got heavy metal bands playing country music" Then I realized it was the other way around.
Thrash-country might be like a set of training wheels to country music for a balding former headbanger. But these days, it seems to me like way too much of the current crop of country acts are infusing too much classic rock into country music. While you can show me the pie charts and explain the demographic shifts, trends and other crap, the fact remains - it's not country. It's Motley Crue....with banjos.
Country music is supposed to be from the heart. Simple, pure and natural. This new stuff is a sell-out. It takes the very traditions of country music and throws them under the bus in the name of "crossover appeal" and instant corporate $$$. It's no wonder once fringe genres like bluegrass, folk and Americana have taken off.
Although hip-hop and country have yet to melt into something remotely listenable. I'm in no hurry to hear "gangsta country". I prefer the classics.
Thrash-country might be like a set of training wheels to country music for a balding former headbanger. But these days, it seems to me like way too much of the current crop of country acts are infusing too much classic rock into country music. While you can show me the pie charts and explain the demographic shifts, trends and other crap, the fact remains - it's not country. It's Motley Crue....with banjos.
Country music is supposed to be from the heart. Simple, pure and natural. This new stuff is a sell-out. It takes the very traditions of country music and throws them under the bus in the name of "crossover appeal" and instant corporate $$$. It's no wonder once fringe genres like bluegrass, folk and Americana have taken off.
Although hip-hop and country have yet to melt into something remotely listenable. I'm in no hurry to hear "gangsta country". I prefer the classics.
Bongwater said:
Huh? Taken off? In what way? Big sales? I don't think so. Big concerts and tours? Nope.
Here's the thing: We are America. We aren't all one color, one religion, or one ethnicity. Same with country. You still have lots of traditionalists having hits. And you have a few that like loud electric guitars. It worked for Ernest Tubb, Johnny Cash, Hank Jr., and Waylon. Why not Aldean? I think Charlie Daniels said it best about critics.
None of this is being done for crossover. Aldean gets no airplay anywhere except country. Country fans love it. "She's Country" was one of the biggest COUNTRY hits of last year. And Aldean records for a small indie label, not a big corporate one. So this is coming from the grass roots.
I find it intersting that "She's Country" angers more country purists than any other song. I have seen it mentioned here and elsewhere several times. Jason Aldean has other songs that sound similar and other artists have songs that are just as rock sounding. Yet for whatever reason "She's Country" generates the most negative feedback among traditionalists. I'm not being critical, just an observation.
There are plenty of current country acts and songs that don't have a rock or pop influence. Easton Corbin for example sounds very similar to George Strait to me.
There are plenty of current country acts and songs that don't have a rock or pop influence. Easton Corbin for example sounds very similar to George Strait to me.
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