Do You Like the Music Played on Country Radio?

Ray Jenkins · Post by **Ray Jenkins** » 24 Aug 2000 10:12 am

Missy the only sad part about it,they don't play nearly enough of the artist doing the trad.stuff.Far and few beteween

Ray

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David Pennybaker · Post by **David Pennybaker** » 24 Aug 2000 11:48 am

Missy the only sad part about it,they don't play nearly enough of the artist doing the trad.stuff.

I don't know, Ray. I hear plenty of Clint Black, Dixie Chicks, Brad Paisley, George Strait, Alan Jackson down here in Houston.

Of course, maybe anything less than 100% isn't enough?

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Ray Jenkins · Post by **Ray Jenkins** » 24 Aug 2000 12:37 pm

David, when I lived in Pasadena we heard all true country,I'm glad you still do.Here in Arizona it's practically none.We have two alleged country stations.KNIX with Tim and Willy (I call them the Katz and Jaemmer Kids).All rock stuff.KMEL same stuff,same format.Right now I'm listening too WSM on the computer,they mix it up real well.Lots ot trad. stuff.

Ray

P.S. is KIKK still going strong?[This message was edited by Ray Jenkins on 24 August 2000 at 01:38 PM.]

David Pennybaker · Post by **David Pennybaker** » 24 Aug 2000 1:27 pm

P.S. is KIKK still going strong?

KIKK is still doing the country thing. We also have KILT and KKBQ. Plus a lower-powered station up in Hunstville/Conroe (two different frequencies, same broadcast).

Between the 4 of them, I can usually find something I like. But, to be honest, I'm spending more time listening to CD's now, it seems.

I love Clint Black's D'electrified, Brad Paisley's CD, Jessica Andrews' CD, George's Latest/Straitest, and of course . . . The Wilkinsons (both CD's). Those take up the 6 spaces in my car CD-player right now.

Wait, I take that back. I recently replaced one of them (Jessica, I think) with a collection of Jerry Reed's greatest hits. Which reminds me: I need to put the CD with "Me and Chet" and "Me and Jerry" back in the car again. Great guitar duets from two of the finest guitarists in the world. I had those 2 albums as a kid, and I'd always wanted the CD. Well, waddya know? They had it at Ernest Tubb's Record Store.

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JB Arnold · Post by **JB Arnold** » 24 Aug 2000 9:09 pm

Throw me in the yes column-I like almost all of it.

John

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Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 25 Aug 2000 1:04 pm

Hmmmm...

My tally was,

No-21
Yes-6
Wishy-washy-5

Hmmmmm...let's see, that is better than 3 to 1. Wow! For ONCE, I was in the majority!

Latina · Post by **Latina** » 26 Aug 2000 6:15 am

A definite NO!!!!!!

Theresa Galbraith · Post by **Theresa Galbraith** » 26 Aug 2000 6:18 am

Hmmmmmm.....
Wishy..Washy steel players!

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 26 Aug 2000 4:50 pm

No, Theresa...wishy-washy WRITERS!

Rich Paton · Post by **Rich Paton** » 27 Aug 2000 7:49 am

YES!
Unfortunately, 90% of what I hear on that medium ISN'T music!
Last night I helped put on a concert by some really hip young Christian kids' organization. They really rocked out and put on a good show. It was over at 11:00 PM, and I put the radio in my truck on the local "country" station, to take the edge off the now empty arena and its uncomfortably monotinous atmosphere.
I swear this is true: The material broadcast from that time until 4:00 AM this morning, when we were finished breaking all the equipment down and had three big trucks loaded and hit the road...was gooey, whiney pap, ~sung~ by gooey, whiney sounding female "artists" or "vocalists" NOT!
Near zero musical content in that noise, and then you also have to suffer those horrendous "voices".
We wound up digging out as many of our own CD's that were handy, and listened on a boom box to some Dan Seals, Seldom Scene, Desert Rose, Larry Cordle, Jerry Douglas, and Vern Gosdin.
It was a sobering experience prior to that. When I finally got home I put on the radio, and surprise, surprise...the same old aural puling and retching was still going on.
The current state of "Country Music Radio" applies an immense vacuum, if you get my drift. [This message was edited by Rich Paton on 27 August 2000 at 09:31 AM.]

David Pennybaker · Post by **David Pennybaker** » 27 Aug 2000 4:16 pm

This has got to be a FIRST in this country but "Thunder" C&W radio 100.3 FM out of Homestead, Florida (Dade Count - South Miami) has announced that during week nights from 8-11 PM they are going to be playing all, CLASSIC COUNTRY MUSIC from the 50s,60s, 70, & 80s. (They have a mix of new & old C&W music now).

Not a first. KILT (hmmmm, that's 100.3, too) here in Houston has been doing this for several months now.

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BJ Bailey · Post by **BJ Bailey** » 27 Aug 2000 11:48 pm

The only problem I have with today's radio is when someone cut's it on.
I recall an artical Mike Perlowin put in the Steel guitar world magezine,about people who live in cave's,and that they should come out and see the real world?
I've looked out a time or two,Sorry Mike it just ai'nt my bag.
I have about as many radio's around the house as I do TV'S.
When I no longer can get a desent sound from the cassette player that come's with it ,it is usualy,put in storage ,and some on the street.
I guess that just my opinion thou,but hey ,this is my world im liveing an dieing in and I do'nt have to roll with the flow

I have a wall of about three hundred, country tape's.one or two rockers,and then of course,there's Elvis.
Alot of Jeff Newman,Paul Franklin, Steve paluisec,study material.
George Jone's,Mel Street,Ray Price,Faron Young,Dale Watson,Gene Watson,Warener Mack,Johnny Cach's,Merl Hagared ,Buck Owen's,Alan Jackson,George Strait,and even one or two of me,plus countless other's.
But then that is just the kind of cave I prefer to sleep in.
Sorry Mike ,no pun entended.
Dose that put me down for no ?You figure?

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Ray Jenkins · Post by **Ray Jenkins** » 28 Aug 2000 7:05 am

B.J.,I'm coming to your house just to listen to your tapes.....

Ray

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BJ Bailey · Post by **BJ Bailey** » 29 Aug 2000 11:10 pm

Hey Ray come on ,we might even eat some road kill.
With the volume of traffic,there is a more verity.And the meat is not as gritty as it used to be,since all the roads are blacktop.

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Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 30 Aug 2000 6:59 am

My gripe isn't with the music so much. It's the commercials. The stations exercise NO editorial constraints on the content of the commercials. When I hear hard rock and hip hop jingles I switch the station. The radio folks don't realize that certain kinds of commercials really alienate the driving audience.

My second gripe is the compression. The DJ's voice is compressed so much that it barely sounds human. Records are compressed nicely in the studio and they sound real good when you get them on CD, so why does the radio have to add another compressor to the sound. Excessive compression sounds very unnatural to me.

To sum it up, I like the good songs on country radio, but I can't stand all that other ****. That's why I mostly listen to NPR these days.

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David Pennybaker · Post by **David Pennybaker** » 30 Aug 2000 9:08 pm

so why does the radio have to add another compressor to the sound?

I'm sure you probably already know the answer to that one. It's to grab the attention of somebody passing by the station when he's searching for a station to listen to.

Most stations around here are compressed. I normally have my volume knob set at "2" for example, and that volume is loud enough for me to hear over the road noise, and soft enough not to cause much damage to my ears.

Now, if I'm scanning the dial, and tune in a station that's not compressed, it's invariably VERY soft. It's very easy to just skip over it, rather than take the trouble to turn up the volume, and listen for a while.

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Dave Smith · Post by **Dave Smith** » 31 Aug 2000 6:58 am

NO !!!!!!! A hundred times NO!!!!!!!! (strong reply to follow).

Neil Hilton · Post by **Neil Hilton** » 31 Aug 2000 7:17 am

I tried a quick pass at radio just yesterday - immediately met with Toby Keith hollering something about "country coming to town!" backed with AC/DC guitars.......

BOOM! - Dale Watson right back in the CD player!!!!

Ray Jenkins · Post by **Ray Jenkins** » 31 Aug 2000 8:25 am

Dave please be a little more convincing,do you or don't you like it.A couple a hundred more NO"s may convience me

Ray

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Marty Holmes · Post by **Marty Holmes** » 2 Sep 2000 11:52 pm

If the song is not about drinking,cheating,or a broken heart It is not worth listening to.I like Brad Paisely,Alan Jackson,George Strait,and Mark Chestnut but that is about it.

Ken Lang · Post by **Ken Lang** » 3 Sep 2000 5:47 pm

BJ Bailey · Post by **BJ Bailey** » 4 Sep 2000 10:27 pm

Did I say no , or did I say no huh?

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Tim Harr · Post by **Tim Harr** » 6 Sep 2000 8:45 pm

Like b0b I listen to talk radio alot.

As for Music on Country Stations?

Well, Here is how I approach that:

I know what real country music is: I listen to tapes of ET, Price, Young, Owens, Hag, Cash, Johnny Bush, Darrell McCall, Dale Watson, etc..

BUT as for the radio I listen to that stuff too...I dont call it COUNTRY though. I just call it POP and listen to it with as much attention as I would give the Beach Boys or The Beatles, Creeedence, Led Zeppelin, Journey, or whatever....

If you call it Country then you are misleading yourself..if you don't, then it is as musical as much as anything else..

I don't really think that the majority here has a problem per se with the music but JUST THE FACT IT IS BEING PACKAGED AND MARKETED AS C O U N T R Y.

There is music....... then there is Country Music. I don't get pi$$ed because I know the difference.

Tim