Program
Notes
On July 23
we'll have albums from two country legends. We'll play cuts from Around the Bend, the new CD from Randy Travis. We'll also present All I Intended to Be, the new CD from Country Music Hall of Famer Emmylou Harris. And we'll set the Wayback Machine to 1997.
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Country
Music has been called "America's
Music." Just as the United States is a melting pot of many cultures,
Country Music is a melting pot of musical styles fused together over
the course of two centuries. The mix of folk and blues and other styles
had evolved into its own genre by the time "modern" country music was
first put onto vinyl in the late 1920s by artists like Jimmie Rodgers
and the Carter Family.
Country
music has always been "inclusive," with many different styles sharing
the format. Western swing and "hillbilly music" shared the
airwaves in the 1940s, Eddy Arnold and Elvis Presley could be heard
together in the 1950s, the hard-edged "Bakersfield Sound" and the
soft-edged "Nashville Sound" co-existed in the 1960s and the Outlaw
movement could be heard along with "Urban Cowboy" pop in the 1970s.
Today, contemporary radio has tried to homogenize the sound of country
music, but with a little bit of digging you can still find quality
country being produced today.
The Goodtime Country Radio Show celebrates the
"inclusiveness" of
country music. You'll hear Hank Williams and Lucinda Williams and
everything in between. Gene Autry and Tennessee Ernie Ford, Loretta
Lynn and Tammy Wynette, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson and
(especially) Johnny Cash all have a home on the program. You'll even
hear the latest releases from "old" artists like Merle Haggard and
Emmylou Harris, the Bakersfield Sound from the Derailers, Texas music
from Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Pat Green,
rockers who are country at heart like John Mellencamp and Bob Seger,
"Americana" from Steve Earle and Wilco and
traditional sounds from modern artists like Alan Jackson and George
Strait.
We
invite you to join us each week in the celebration of the diversity
of "America's Music."
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