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What classic country station are you listening to?

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I'm listening to 1520 AM KKXA, Everett, WA with a FM translator at 101.1 and streaming online. Their library covers late 50s through mid-2000s.
 
I prefer '80s/'90s classic country, so I enjoyed 101.9 Hank FM whenever I was in SE WA. KTFW (also a Hank) on 92.1 in the Fort Worth area has a great playlist. Mostly '80s and '90s now. It used to be a wide early '60s to current playlist. I noticed they played a lot of 2000s country songs that only got to #20 or so on the charts. 'One of the Boys' Gretchen Wilson for example - only #35 on the chart in 2007, still on the playlist several years later.
 
WCNL Newport/Claremont, NH, draws from a wide selection of country and crossover tunes from the '50s through today, with the "sweet spot" being '70s/'80s. The "crossovers" can be strange -- I've heard "The Weight" by the Band, "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" by Bob Dylan and "If You Could Read My Mind" by Gordon Lightfoot, none of which were country hits at all. Sadly, the station is stuck in a generic Christmas format until the 26th (not even a country Christmas format), so don't bother to check it out until then.
 
CTListener said:
WCNL Newport/Claremont, NH, draws from a wide selection of country and crossover tunes from the '50s through today, with the "sweet spot" being '70s/'80s. The "crossovers" can be strange -- I've heard "The Weight" by the Band, "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" by Bob Dylan and "If You Could Read My Mind" by Gordon Lightfoot, none of which were country hits at all. Sadly, the station is stuck in a generic Christmas format until the 26th (not even a country Christmas format), so don't bother to check it out until then.
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Do they ever play "After the Glitter Fades" by Stevie Nicks?
 
My station is 93.3 WMTN.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

P.S. When I can get the stations in good enough, I will listen to 95.7 WDKW and 94.5 WRGS whenever WMTN plays anything that I don't care for.
 
We used to have some great local country stations in our area here in North Central Ohio. WNCO 101.3 was a great station until Clear channel bought it in 2000. now it's just a shell of its self with no local talent and only plays top 30 country for the most part. WQKT 104.5 was a country/ local sports powerhouse but was bought by a Christian Ministry about a year ago and flipped to Contemporary Christian. Classic country is no longer heard in our area on the radio, so I started an online country station that plays real traditional country music as old as Roy Acuff in the late 1930, to some new artists' still making real country music that FM doesn't play. We also play local/regional country and bluegrass artists. It's online only but I've tried to re-create the great country stations of the past in our area. I cover local events/happenings weekday mornings, but probably almost half of our listeners are from other surrounding states. It's nice knowing there's still a lot of folks who love hearing classic country! The station is Ashland County's Country-The Barn if you'd like to check it out.
 
I like The Possum 92.1 KXEZ Farmersville, TX. If you like 60's/70's Nashville sound, George Jones, Loretta Lynn, Donna Fargo, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, etc. This is your station! They don't have a website, but I stream them through the Simple Radio app.
 
WAME 550 AM (they usually mention the translator frequency) is outside Charlotte NC. Only the AM reaches Charlotte and that's during the day. 70s, 80s and 90s. The worst songs I've heard were "Man! I Feel Like a Woman" by Shania Twain and "The Thunder Rolls" by Garth Brooks.

WBRF 98.1 Galax VA reaches most of the Greensboro NC market. It used to sound good, going back to the 60s and even the 50s and occasionally the 40s. Now, the older songs aren't played that much and the 90s have been added and even people like Montgomery Gentry, who are just rock. If I just focus on what is good, there is still a lot of good country.

96.1 the Bear outside Asheville can be heard all the way to where I go in the mountains on 1350 AM during the day. Plenty of commercials for local businesses in and around Black Mountain. Not as good as the other two because I heard Morgan Wallen and Post Malone and other newer songs. But fewer commercials than WESC 92.5, and iHeart station which is more contemporary than a lot of classic country stations and seems obsessed with Carrie Underwood.

When I go to the beach there is 105.5 Hank FM (1450) but country music at the beach doesn't seem right, and there were too many songs I didn't like.
 
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