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[Runrigger]

I'm not in an area where any kinds of country hybrid formats exist. Basically AC & CHR will play the crossover songs that are on the national charts. If anything, country is giving a little more exposure to artists like John Mellancamp & Bonnie Raitt.

Now does anyone think a basic AOR station that plays new stuff but still plays the classics like Skynyrd & The Allmans could get away with Brad Paisley's Alcohol? Granted there would probably never be a push from the label for this to happen & there's no way it could cross over to any other format but an adventurous PD who has the leeway to go out on a limb could be missing a song that really gets into your system on a couple of listens & could very well fit on a rocker that has an audience with the patience to sit through something that doesn't sound like anything else on the station but still fits.

Any opinions?

 

[wd45]

An interesting thought, to be sure. Likely would depend on what market the station was in.
I heard it for the first time a couple of days ago, and the first thought that came to my mind was that it sounded like a song that Gary Stewart could have sang in his heyday.


> I'm not in an area where any kinds of country hybrid formats
> exist. Basically AC & CHR will play the crossover songs that
> are on the national charts. If anything, country is giving a
> little more exposure to artists like John Mellancamp &
> Bonnie Raitt.
>
> Now does anyone think a basic AOR station that plays new
> stuff but still plays the classics like Skynyrd & The
> Allmans could get away with Brad Paisley's Alcohol? Granted
> there would probably never be a push from the label for this
> to happen & there's no way it could cross over to any other
> format but an adventurous PD who has the leeway to go out on
> a limb could be missing a song that really gets into your
> system on a couple of listens & could very well fit on a
> rocker that has an audience with the patience to sit through
> something that doesn't sound like anything else on the
> station but still fits.
>
> Any opinions?
>

 

[Jay_F]

> I'm not in an area where any kinds of country hybrid formats
> exist. Basically AC & CHR will play the crossover songs that
> are on the national charts. If anything, country is giving a
> little more exposure to artists like John Mellancamp &
> Bonnie Raitt.
>
> Now does anyone think a basic AOR station that plays new
> stuff but still plays the classics like Skynyrd & The
> Allmans could get away with Brad Paisley's Alcohol? Granted
> there would probably never be a push from the label for this
> to happen & there's no way it could cross over to any other
> format but an adventurous PD who has the leeway to go out on
> a limb could be missing a song that really gets into your
> system on a couple of listens & could very well fit on a
> rocker that has an audience with the patience to sit through
> something that doesn't sound like anything else on the
> station but still fits.
>
> Any opinions?
>


"Alcohol" sounds far too country to my ears to crossover to AOR. I can't even imagine it, but that's just one opinion.

There are some other songs that would fit better. How about "Help Somebody"?, if anything because of Van Zant's rock heritage. How about "Pickin Wildflowers"?

I know most of the time when country stations play rock it ends up being a falure, Outlaw in Tampa being the latest example. I can't think of a rock station playing country currents, it would have to be a classic leaning rock station. I couldn't see even the most rock leaning country songs mixing with some of the new active rock bands that mostly appeal to 12-24 year old males.