Friday, February 07, 2003

This Dallas "hard country" station, KHYI "The Range", is pretty cool. It plays real redneck country stuff, and real rednecks listen to it; you can tell by all the people who call in. I highly recommend it. As the DJ says, "If you want your country music to sound like the Bee Gees, just move on down the dial". For you foreigners, it might be an interesting experience to tune in. This is l'Amerique profonde here. Another station I like a lot is Bluegrass Country Dot Org. They're a little more oriented toward the NPR listener than the Evan Williams-chugging folks in the trailer park, in the sense that they don't pay any attention to the hits (are there bluegrass hit songs?); they record eight or nine bluegrass shows from different stations around the world and then play them back. Each show is repeated several times during the week.

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