During a weekend road trip to Houston, I discovered one area in which Sweat City beats Dallas hands down: They have a classic country radio station, and we don’t. The appropriately named “Country Legends” revels in the catalogues of Willie and Waylon, Kenny and Dolly, Hank and Dwight, and other artists we all know on a first-name basis. Why can’t we get a station like that? The powers-that-be at Cumulus Radio should remember this the next time they’re ready to change the format of 93.3 FM (tick tock, tick tock).
Once we get a classic country station, we can set our sights on a classic hip-hop station. How great would it be to have a channel that played vintage Public Enemy, Run-DMC, LL Cool J, A Tribe Called Quest, and De La Soul? It sure would beat the noise they play on K104 and 97.9 The Beat.
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Try KHYI 95.3, The Range. (http://www.khyi.com/wp/) The signal’s not the strongest below LBJ, but their playlist comes closest to classic country in this part of the world.
The Range?
1190 AM plays some classic country when it isn’t doing regular programming. There was a classic country station on the AM dial when I lived in California, and it sounds better for some reason on AM than on FM.
What’s wrong with 95.3, KHYI – The Range? or 92.1, KXEZ – The Possum?
Forget 95.3 south of LBJ. You just can’t get a clear signal.
Tune in 95.3 KHYI/The Range or 89.3 KNON during Texas Renegade Radio (Mon-Fri, 4-6pm).
I’ve tried tuning into The Range, but I just can’t pick it up. And I live north of LBJ.
I loved when- I believe- KSCS did Solid Gold Saturday Nights. I loved listening to it. Tulsa has a classic country station and that is all I listen to when I go home. I still can sing all the words to Convoy, IJS.
Quadruple-like on both format suggestions!!!!
what the hell?? 95.3 KHYI is classic gold man! they’ve even won some awards for best Texas Radio Station…or something along those lines.
get your head out before making an idiotic post like this.
May I suggest RootHogRadio.com? Not 100% classic country or Texas Pop Country but real country none the less.
Not so, “You pissed me off.” While it does avoid the homogenized mainstream stuff, KHYI is not “classic gold” except maybe for Alan Peck Sr.’s evening drive-time show, and recently they’ve seemed to rein him in, too. IHO The Range plays way too much boring generic “Texas music” (read: Pat Green, James McMurtry, anything that mentions Lone Star beer or armadillos in it). If you’ve got Sirius, Dan, you can always flip between the Outlaw station and Willie’s Roadhouse.
There is a good station in Seymour, Tx., that you can listen to online. Unfortunately, they were playing x-mas tunes a minute ago. Just google radio station, Seymour, Tx. It’s usually really good OLD country.
I agree with Glenn. 95.3 is not classic country. It’s mostly current Texas country, and they have serious issues with their broadcasting equipment. The audio sounds like it’s being played through an over-modulated A.M. radio inside a bathtub. It hasn’t always been that way, but it’s unlistenable as it is now.
Pat Green and James McMurtry? Not a pairing that I would have made.
um, radio died about 10 years ago. Music radio isn’t worth listening to anymore. Get satellite and you can have your classic country.
and this is from someone who was in the business for many years.
Linking Pat Green and James McMurtry is the equivalent of linking the following: Ribs from Chili’s and ribs from Lockhart Smokehouse. Pearl beer in a can and Shiner Bock beer in a bottle. The Carls Corner truckstop and Neiman Marcus. Kay Bailey what’s-her-name and Lloyd Bentsen. Greg Hill and Earl Campbell.
I heard radio faked it’s own death. Some real illuminati shite, right there!
Both Austin and Amarillo have great classic country stations, I tune in whenever I pass through.
Bobby,
Exactly, sometimes I’m drunk and i want Chilli’s ribs or I’m at the Dixie Chicken and I wouldn’t mind a Pearl now that you mention it, but they are not the same. After that you took it too far and the rest of your analogies suck.