Back to the Country - WEVL FM 89.9

18/07/2024

Two hours of country music starting right now! WEVL FM 89.9 and streaming at www.wevl.org Here's the playlist...

(First hour)
Rednecks, white socks, and blue ribbon beer - Johnny Russell
Let's invite them over - George Jones & Melba Montgomery
Leave my mama out of this - Johnny Bush
The three bells - The Browns
Wreck of the Old 97 - Norman & Nancy Blake
That lucky old sun - Johnny Cash
Caribbean - Hank Snow
(I'm so) afraid of losing you again - Charley Pride
A little spot in heaven - Marty Robbins
Don't you love your daddy, too - Carl Story
H***y tonkin' - Hank Williams
High falutin' mama - Bill Nettles
Hangover tavern - Hank Thompson
I never had the one I wanted - Claude Gray
Drink, drink, drink - Dale Watson
Don't touch me - George Jones
I'd rather be gone - Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley
Kickin' our hearts around - Buck Owens
Kisses don't lie - Carl Smith
Indian love call - Slim Whitman

(Second hour)
Leave the purty girls alone Carson Robison & Vernon Dalhart
If I'm gonna sink - Johnny Paycheck
You done me wrong - Ray Price
Falling back to you - Webb Pierce
Heavy traffic ahead - Bill Monroe
Never get away from me - Travis Tritt
I've learned to live with you (and be alone) - Jean Shepard
After all the good is gone - Conway Twitty
That low down running around - Gene O'Quin
Accidently on purpose - Ernest Tubb
Mule Skinner Blues - Roy Acuff
Marry me - Dolly Parton
Take me back to the good old days - Tommy Collins
Designated drinker - Alan Jackson & George Strait
Too cold at home - Mark Chesnutt
Oh lonesome me - Don Gibson
Leona - Stonewall Jackson
Leather britches - The Blue Sky Boys
Old Daniel prayed - Patty Loveless

11/07/2024

Merle, Ernest, Loretta, Rose and her Big Brothers, Kitty, Jim Ed, and many more favorites 12-2pm CT, WEVL FM 89.9 in Memphis and streaming at www.wevl.org

(First hour)
I'm gonna break every heart I can - Merle Haggard
Half a mind - Ernest Tubb
Big ball in Boston - The Del McCoury Band
Lady's man - Hank Snow
The backside of Dallas - Jeannie C. Riley
Old five and dimers (like me) - Waylon Jennings
You oughta know - Jimmy Heap & The Melody Masters
I heard the jukebox playing - Kitty Wells
I can't let go - Vince Gill, Alison Krauss, Dan Tyminski
Leaving Tennessee - The Kelleys
Barroom pals and goodtime gals - Jim Ed Brown
The town where you live - Mel Street
Send me the pillow you dream on - Hank Locklin
Texas on a Saturday night - Willie Nelson & Mel Tillis
This ole house - Stuart Hamblen
When the snowflakes fall - Mac Wiseman
Bud's steel guitar stomp - Bud Isaacs
Rock Island Line - Johnny Cash
The whiskey makes you sweeter - Laura Cantrell
Once you've had the best - George Jones
I ain't gonna let ol' Satan turn me 'round - Gov. Jimmie Davis

(Second hour)
Hank and Lefty raised my country soul - Stoney Edwards
I can't help it (if I'm still in love with you) - Hank Williams
Shine, shave, shower (It's Saturday) - Lefty Frizzell
Six nights a week - Chris Gaffney
A world so full of love - Faron Young
Pick the wildwood flower - Gene Watson
Curly headed baby - The Blue Sky Boys
Old friends - Ray Price, Roger Miller, Willie Nelson
Behind the tear - Sonny James
Oakie boogie - Don Walser
Knot hole - The Carlisles
Lawdy, what a gal - Hank Thompson
If we're not back in love by Monday - Merle Haggard
Keep those cards and letters coming in - Ernest Tubb & Loretta Lynn
I'll go stepping too - The Maddox Brothers & Rose
I never once stopped loving you - Connie Smith
In the shadow of Clinch Mountain - The Carter Family
Keys in the mailbox - Buck Owens
Rockin' alone (in an old rockin' chair) - Eddy Arnold
Preachin', prayin', singin' - Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs

27/06/2024

Join me 12-2pm CT today for some country tunes. Wilma Lee & Stoney, Johnnie & Jack, Speedy & Jimmy, Merle, George, and many more favorites. FM 89.9 in Memphis and streaming at www.wevl.org

(Photo: Minnie Pearl, Wilma Lee Cooper, Jan Howard, Skeeter Davies, June Carter, Kitty Wells)

(First hour)
There's a big wheel - Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper
Country music has gone to town - Johnnie & Jack
Take this job and shove it - JoJohnny Paycheckake the devil out of me - GeGeorge Joneshe great speckled bird - Roy Acuff
Hub cap roll - Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant
Tonight she hits the h***y tonks again - JuJustin Trevino - Official way to survive - Ray Price
Mr. Heartache - Billy Walker
Promised to John - Hank Snow & Anita Carter
Let's turn back the years - Hank Williams
T.B. Blues - Jimmie Rodgers
Darkest hour is just before dawn - Emmylou Harris
I'm no stranger to the rain - Keith Whitley
Murder on music row - LaLarry CordleFreight train Heather Waters
Twenty naked pentecostals in a Pontiac - ChChris Stuart Backcountry
Thibodaux - ClClaire Lynch Music(Second hour)
Floyd County - Dwight Yoakam
Silver wings - Merle Haggard
Today I started loving you again - Sammi Smith
Storms never last - Jessi Colter
She got the goldmine (I got the shaft) - Jerry Reed
Better times a coming - Jim & Jesse
Bottle, bottle - Jim Ed Brown
Whiskey or God - DaDale Watsonall tall trees - George Jones
This old house - Ricky Skaggs & The Whites
Baby, baby don't tell me that - James Hand
Are they gonna make us outlaws again? - James Talley
Sugarfoot rag - Red Foley
Whiskey bent and hell bound - HaHank Williams Jr.ake me back to my boots and saddle - Hays County Gals & Pals
Who did you call darlin' - HeHeather Myleshe emptiest arms in the world - Merle Haggard
Put me out of your memory - Johnny Bush
Lord, I hope this day is good - Don Williams
Cannonball rag - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band & Merle Travis
Do you live what you preach - The Louvin Brothers

13/06/2024

Two hours of country music, starting off with some sad singin' and slow ridin'. 12-2pm CT, WEVL FM 89.9 and streaming at www.wevl.org

(Photo: Jean Shepard 1952)

06/06/2024

We're gonna start off today on the dusty Winnemucca road and see where that takes us. Join me 12-2pm CT, WEVL FM 89.9 in Memphis and streaming at www.wevl.org

If you miss me live, shows are achived at https://spinitron.com/WEVL/dj/87465/Ken

(First hour)
I've been everywhere - Hank Snow
Harper Valley P.T.A. - Jeannie C Riley
I'm head over heels in love - Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs
Play me something I can drink to - Jon Wolfe
Drink up and be somebody - Merle Haggard
Another man loved me last night - Amber Digby
Another day, another dollar - Wynn Stewart
I'm tired - Webb Pierce
Sweet thang - Ernest Tubb- & Loretta Lynn
My Galveston gal - Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies
Cotton-eyed Joe - Asleep at the Wheel
Pawnshop wedding rings - The Derailers
Poison love - Johnnie & Jack
Three's a crowd - Justin Trevino
I'll be there - Ray Price
Travellin' blues - Lefty Frizzell
Someday you'll call my name - IIIrd Tyme Out
She's no angel - Kitty Wells
Take an old cold 'tater (and wait) - Little Jimmy Dickens
If hell had a jukebox - Travis Tritt

(Second hour)
Home is where the hurt is - Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton
Johnny One Time - Brenda Lee
Love's tombstone - Bradley Walker
I sleep just like a baby - George Jones
I'm a long gone daddy - HANK WILLIAMS SR.
Frankie and Johnny - Chet Atkins
Ain't coming back - Mile Twelve
Love at the Five and Dime - Kathy Mattea
Turning off a memory - Merle Haggard
Look what thoughts will do - Willie Nelson
Don't pretend with me - Vince Gill
Down the trail of achin' hearts - Hank Snow & Anita Carter
I can't make it without you - Curtis Potter
All right - Faron Young
She even woke me up to say goodbye - Jerry Lee Lewis
Singing my song - Tammy Wynette
You better not do that - Tommy Collins
If you could touch her at all - Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson
The sunset trail - Bill Monroe & Willie Nelson
Satisfied - Don Gibson

16/05/2024

Today we'll hear all the usual suspects plus some inspired but less-played cuts by Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan, Willis Alan Ramsey, Harry Choates, Big Al Downing, and the Hays County Gals & Pals. Join me 12-2pm CT, FM 89.9 in Memphis and streaming at www.wevl.org

(Photo: Roy Acuff, Ernest Tubb, Tex Ritter)

(First hour)
Mr. Jukebox - Ernest Tubb
Straight tequila night - John Anderson
I am a pilgrim - Merle Travis
I tell my heart - Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper
Drinkin' thing - Gary Stewart
I just don't give a damn - Georgette Jones
Let the train blow the whistle - Johnny Cash
Talk like that - Kelly Willis
Release me - Ray Price
Hard rock bottom of your heart - Randy Travis
Nobody's darling but mine - The Chieftains & Emmylou Harris
Birmingham bounce - Red Foley
It's hard to tell the married from the free - Jean Shepard
Wild wild young men - The Maddox Brothers & Rose
Love of the common people - Waylon Jennings
Step it up and go - Carl Story
Daddy Frank (the guitar man) - Merle Haggard
My good gal's gone - Hank Snow
Getting used to be being lonely - The Browns
There must be more to life (than growing old) - Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan

(Second hour)
Lovesick blues - HANK WILLIAMS
The end of the world - Skeeter Davis
Mansion on Main - The Farm Hands
Pack up your sorrows - Johnny Cash & June Carter
Gals don't mean a thing - Johnny Bond
One sweet letter from you - Spade Cooley
Is anybody going to San Antone? - Charley Pride
Touch me (I'll be your fool once more) - Big Al Downing
You can tell a Texan ev'ry time - Tennessee Ernie Ford & Tex Williams
You're from Texas - Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys
Lovin' on back streets - Mel Street
Success - Loretta Lynn
Don't the girls all get prettier at closing time - Mickey Gilley
Goodbye old Missoula - Willis Alan Ramsey
We must have been out of our minds - George Jones & Melba Montgomery
H***y tonking days - Harry Choates
Three times seven - Hank Thompson
Twenty miles from shore - Hawkshaw Hawkins
Pinto pal - Hays County Gals & Pals
Before you go - Buck Owens
Camping in Canaan's land - The Bailey Brothers & The Happy Valley Boys

09/05/2024

Join me today 12-2pm CT for some country classics, and some that should be classics. FM 89.9 in Memphis and streaming at www.wevl.org . Playlist is below and archived shows are at https://spinitron.com/WEVL/dj/87465/Ken

(First hour)
Love and honor - Merle Haggard
Next in line - Conway Twitty
Strange - Patsy Cline
I'll love you forever - Marty Stuart
Tom Dooley - Doc Watson
I don't claim to be an angel - Kitty Wells
The cheatin' hotel - Hank Williams Jr.
I do my swinging at home - David Houston
Brain cloudy blues - Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys
Stay a little longer - Willie Nelson
Big ball in Brooklyn - Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs
Just between you and me - Bobby Helms
Touch my heart - Johnny Paycheck
Three chords and the truth - Sara Evans
Don't leave the leaving up to me - Leona B Williams
If drinkin' don't kill me (her memory will) - George Jones
This ain't my first rodeo - Vern Gosdin
You're the reason God made Oklahoma - David Frizzell & Shelly West
Starvin' to death on a government claim - Bob Bovee
Vietnam blues - Dave Dudley

(Second hour)
Guitars, Cadillacs - Dwight Yoakam
I really don't want to know - Ferlin Husky
Guitar polka- Chet Atkins & Rosalie Allen
Cryin' time - Buck Owens
Run 'em off - Lefty Frizzell
Sally let your bangs hang down - Rose Maddox
Tied down - Roy Acuff
A woman's touch - James Intveld
Your love I'm gonna miss - Dale Watson
You'll never get a better chance than this - Justin Trevino
Sorrow overtakes the wine - Porter Wagoner
Promises and hearts (were made to break) Stonewall Jackson
Congratulations, you're absolutely right - Tony Booth
Will the real me please stop crying - Connie Smith
You can't Wynn, Stewart - Wynn Stewart
You've got the right key - Red Stick Ramblers
Rainbow stew - Merle Haggard
By and by - ELVIS PRESLEY

02/05/2024

Lots of dancin' fools on the show today. Join me 12-2pm CT, FM 89.9 in Memphis and streaming at www.wevl.org Archived shows are here: https://spinitron.com/WEVL/dj/87465/Ken

(Photo: Conway Twitty, Little Jimmy Dickens, Sammi Smith)

(First hour)
The last country song - Tom T. Hall
High on a hilltop - Tommy Collins
Lonely thing called me - Roy Drusky
I love you because - Leon Payne
All my rowdy friends are coming over tonight - Hank Williams Jr.
Lewis boogie - Jerry Lee Lewis
I'm on my way to the old home - Bill Monroe
There's always one - Porter Wagoner & Skeeter Davis
So sad (to watch good love go bad) - The Everly Brothers
One more time - Ray Price
Falling in love again - John Prine & Alison Krauss
I've been hearing things about you - Vince Gill
Anticipation blues - Tennessee Ernie Ford
Old chunk of coal - Billy Joe Shaver
She's gone, gone, gone - Lefty Frizzell
Blue side of lonesome - Jim Reeves
Jesse James prayed - Dr. Ralph Stanley
The day the world stood still - Charley Pride
Just because I'm a woman - Dolly Parton
Elizabeth - The Statler Brothers

(Second hour)
Sugarfoot rag square dance - Red Foley
Rootie tootie - Hank Williams
Trouble in my arms - Johnny & Jonie Mosby
Heaven on Earth - The Savage Hearts
Heartaches and hangovers - George Jones
Whiskey with tears - Town Mountain
Just a queen for a day - Wanda Jackson
Baltimore - Sonny James
If a woman answers - Leroy Van D**e
A-11 - Buck Owens
Misty blue - Wilma Burgess
Do I even cross your mind - Johnny Russell
A little bluer than that - Alan Jackson
Change her mind - Gene Watson
Wildwood flower - Hank Thompson
A place to fall apart - Merle Haggard & Janie Fricke
Ruby (don't take your love to town) - Roger Miller
Keep it between the lines - Ricky Van Shelton
Tumbling tumbleweeds - Sons of the Pioneers
Southbound train - Johnny Wright
Leavin' and sayin' goodbye - Faron Young
He walks on the water - Jim & Jesse

25/04/2024

Thank you for supporting WEVL during our Spring Pledge Drive last week... you make it happen! Join me 12-2pm CT today for some country tunes, FM89.9 in Memphis and streaming at www.wevl.org

The photo below is of Bocephus (Hank Williams Jr.) being coaxed onto the Grand Ole Opry stage by June Carter and Little Jimmy Dickens. As I understand it, Hank became less shy as the years went on.

20/04/2024

Missy Raines and Allegheny @ Durango Bluegrass Meltdown— terrific show!

11/04/2024

Lots of great country music for you today, 12-2pm CT, FM 89.9 in Memphis and screaming to the rest of the world at www.wevl.org . Archived shows are here: https://spinitron.com/WEVL/dj/87465/Ken

(Photo: Hank Williams, Minnie Pearl, Big Bill Lister, and the Drifting Cowboys)

(First hour)
Under the influence of love - Buck Owens
I've been a long time leavin' - Roger Miller
I've been everywhere - Hank Snow
I've been everywhere - Lucky Starr
Barroom pals and goodtime gals - Jim Ed Brown
You're on my list - Jerry Clower
Anytime - Eddy Arnold
Baby-O - Grandpa Jones
Goodnight, sweetheart, goodnight - Johnnie & Jack
I'm building a stairway to heaven - Jack Guthrie
When you're hot you're hot - Jerry Reed
Second fiddle (to an old guitar) - Jean Shepard
Freeborn man - Junior Brown
Don't tease me - Carl Smith
Nobody calls from Vegas just to say hello - Vern Gosdin
It's the mileage that's slowin' us down - Ernest Tubb- & Red Foley
Before the next teardrop falls - Freddy Fender
Grandma's song - Gail Davies
Brother to the blues - George Jones
Blue yodel #9 - Jimmie Rodgers
What does the deep sea say - Eric Lewis & Andy Ratliff
Shady Grove - Bill Monroe w/ Peter Rowan & Tex Logan
Country girl - Faron Young

(Second hour)
Big ole heartache - Hawkshaw Hawkins
Floor to crawl - James Hand
My old friend the blues - Patty Loveless
Amanda - Waylon Jennings
Drive on - Johnny Cash
Tied down - Roy Acuff
There's a little bit of everything in Texas - Ernest Tubb-
Squaws along the Yukon - Hank Thompson
L-O-V-E, LOVE - Loretta Lynn
Down the trail of achin' hearts - Hank Snow & Anita Carter
This cold war with you - Floyd Tillman
Up against the wall redneck mother - Jerry Jeff Walker
Louisiana woman - Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley
Pan American - Hank Williams Jr.
It's not love (but it's not bad) - Merle Haggard
U.S. male - ELVIS PRESLEY
You don't show me much - Frankie Miller
Red wing - Asleep at the Wheel
Florida blues - Carl Story
Kneel and pray - Mickey Harris

06/04/2024

Wow!

The official music video for Tony Trischka’s single “Brown’s Ferry Blues (feat. Billy Strings).” Tony’s upcoming album, Earl Jam: A Tribute to Earl Scruggs, ...

28/03/2024

Smooches to you... it's time again to go Back to the Country, 12-2pm CT today, FM 89.9 in Memphis and streaming at www.wevl.org . Archived shows are at https://spinitron.com/WEVL/dj/87465/Ken

(First hour)
The grand tour - George Jones
If you were mine to lose - Conway Twitty
I miss you already - Faron Young
Some broken hearts never mend - Don Williams
Country sunshine - Dottie West
If your conscience can't stop you - Jan Howard
The last letter - Jack Greene
Tulare dust - Merle Haggard
Let the whole world talk - Jimmy "C" Newman
Eight more miles to Louisville - Don Reno & Red Smiley
Deford rides again - Old Crow Medicine Show
Ice water blues - DeFord Bailey
Gone at last - Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver
Weary lonesome blues - The Louvin Brothers
Ain't nothing shakin' - Linda Gail Lewis
Standing in the shadows - Hank Williams Jr.
The John Deere tractor song - Don Walser
The old country baptising - Bill Monroe
A thousand miles from nowhere - Dwight Yoakam

(Second hour)
Get set for a heartache - Loretta Lynn
Hit the road and go - Johnny Cash
Just a little lovin' - Eddy Arnold
Can't help falling in love - ELVIS PRESLEY
For the good times - Ray Price
Where do I put her memory - Charley Pride
Lost to a stranger - Hylo Brown & The Timberliners
Candy kisses - Eddie Kirk w/ Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant
Psycho - Eddie Noack
If I could just go back - Tommy Collins
He taught them how - Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper
Sticks and stones - Tracy Lawrence
Somebody loves you darlin' - Don Gibson
My woman, my woman, my wife - Marty Robbins
Gonna find me a bluebird - Marvin Rainwater
Oklahoma Hills - Hank Thompson
Sleepy-eyed John - Johnny Horton
I'd love you all over again - Alan Jackson
Love's the answer - Tanya Tucker
Where no one stands alone - Porter Wagoner & The Blackwood Brothers

21/03/2024

We'll have tiaras and flattops galore on today's Back to the Country. 12-2pm CT, FM 89.9 in Memphis and streaming at www.wevl.org . Archived shows and playlists are at https://spinitron.com/WEVL/dj/87465/Ken

14/03/2024

Lots of country icons big and small today. Join me 12-2pm CT, FM 89.9 in Memphis and streaming at www.wevl.org . Archived shows are at https://spinitron.com/WEVL/dj/87465/Ken

(Photo: Hawkshaw Hawkins, Little Jimmy Dickens)

07/03/2024

Minnie and Tennessee Ernie are stunned that it's already Thursday again and time for two more hours of Back to the Country. Tune in 12-2pm CT, FM 89.9 in Memphis or hear the webstream at www.wevl.org . Archived shows are available at https://spinitron.com/WEVL/dj/87465/Ken

29/02/2024

Happy Leap Day! Join me for our bonus show of country favorites, 12-2pm CT today, FM 89.9 in Memphis and streaming at www.wevl.org. Archived shows are at https://spinitron.com/WEVL/dj/87465/Ken

(Photo: Connie Smith, Bill Anderson, and producer Bob Ferguson at RCA Studio B, 1964)

(First hour)
Nobody but a fool (would love you) - Connie Smith
Good lovin' (makes it right) - Tammy Wynette
She knows when you're on my mind - George Strait
The tip of my fingers - Bill Anderson
We can make it - George Jones
Danger zone - The Sunshine Boys
It won't bring her back - Glen Campbell
Tomorrow's just another day to cry - Little Jimmy Dickens
Mandolin rain - Pam Tillis
Don't take advantage of me - Bonnie Owens
Only you (can break my heart) - Buck Owens
Lonesome for a letter - Sanford Clark
A little bit's better (than nothing at all) - Frankie Miller
I couldn't care less - Don Gibson
Take me back to West Virginia - Larry Sparks
Tramp on your street - Billy Joe Shaver
May you never be alone - HANK WILLIAMS
The ghost train - Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper
Get together polka - P*e Wee King
Lonesome old river blues - Roy Acuff

(Second hour)
May I sleep in your barn tonight mister - Hank Thompson
Mississippi cotton picking delta town - Charley Pride
Harper Valley P.T.A. - Jeannie C. Riley
I cried all the way to the bank - Norma Jean
Lucille (You won't do your daddy's will) - Waylon Jennings
I wouldn't want to live if you didn't love me - Don Williams
In the chapel in the moonlight - Faron Young
Seven year ache - Rosanne Cash
Freight train - Heather Waters
You can't do wrong and get by - The Delmore Brothers
Miami, my Amy - Keith Whitley
Going where the lonely go - Merle Haggard
So you don't have to love me anymore - Alan Jackson
Mule train - Tennessee Ernie Ford
Billy Bayou - Jim Reeves
Trouble's back in town - The Wilburn Brothers
It's only love - Jeannie Seely
Pinto pal - Elton Britt
Just as I am - Willie Nelson & Bobbie Lee Nelson

22/02/2024

Two hours of country music starting soon! George Jones will start us off with one that'll bring a tear to a glass eye, but we'll pick up the tempo after that! Join me noon-2pm CT on FM 89.9 in Memphis or on our webstream at www.wevl.org. Archived shows are at https://spinitron.com/WEVL/dj/87465/Ken

(Photo: Moon Mullican, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Webb Pierce)

(First hour)
Things have gone to pieces - George Jones
H***y tonk stardust cowboy - Lefty Frizzell
Rise and shine Tommy Cash
Little sister - Dwight Yoakam
The first train headin' south - Johnny Horton
Shot-gun boogie - Tennessee Ernie Ford
Death at the bar - Kitty Wells
I overlooked an orchid - Carl Smith
Irma - T. Tex Tyler
My reason for living - Ferlin Husky
What is life without love - Eddy Arnold
I wish it would rain - Randy Travis
Pass me not - Dale Ann Bradley & Larry Sparks
Don't forget the coffee Billy Joe - Tom T. Hall
Cool water - Marty Robbins

(Second hour)
Heaven everyday - Mel Tillis
Wanting you but never having you - Jack Greene
Dang me - Roger Miller
A wound time can't erase - Stonewall Jackson
Slowly - Jimmy Dean & Dottie West
Old Tige - Jim Reeves

Misery and gin - Merle Haggard
I think I'll just stay here and drink - Merle Haggard
Back to the barrooms again - Merle Haggard
Our paths may never cross - Merle Haggard

Get in line brother - Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs
More and more - Webb Pierce
Waiting for a train - Jimmie Rodgers
The cold hard facts of life - Porter Wagoner
Bring my flowers now - Tanya Tucker
Sneakin' in - Loretta Lynn
The likes of you - Lynn Morris
Milwaukee here I come - Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton
Don't kneel at my graveside - Barry 'n Holly Tashian
First date, first kiss, first love - Sonny James
Bright lights and blonde haired women - Dick Curless
Family tradition - Hank Williams Jr.
There you go - Johnny Cash
You done me wrong - Ray Price
Leaning on the everlasting arms - Webb Pierce

15/02/2024

Here's today's playlist. For my money, the price of admission is worth it just to hear Jim Reeves sing about Ichabod Crane! Join me 12-2pm on FM89.9 in Memphis, or hear the web stream at www.wevl.org If you miss me live, archived shows are at https://spinitron.com/WEVL/dj/87465/Ken

(Photo: Moon Mullican, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Webb Pierce)

(First hour)
Sea of heartbreak - Johnny Cash
Corrine Corrina - Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys
Ride me down easy - Bobby Bare
I'd give the world - Warner Mack
Play me the waltz of the angels - The Derailers w/ Buck Owens
I heard the bluebirds sing - The Cantrells (Al & Emily Cantrell)
I've come to expect it from you - George Strait
Between the tears - Hank Locklin
Unmitigated gall - Faron Young
Save it! Save it! - Jimmy Martin
He's somewhere between you and me - Loretta Lynn
Hurt her once for me - The Wilburn Brothers
City of New Orleans - Willie Nelson
I'm just fool enough - Justin Tubb
I see the want to in your eyes - Gary Stewart
Ichabod Crane - Jim Reeves
Not what I had in mind - George Jones
Lonely blue boy - Conway Twitty
Blues stay away from me - Delmore Brothers
Take a walk - Jerry Reed

(Second hour)
Tennessee Local - Ida Red ATX
Anger and tears - Mel McDaniel
Born to lose - Hank Snow
Everybody wants to go to heaven - Alison Krauss & The Cox Family
Does my ring hurt your finger - Charley Pride
Two more bottles of wine - Emmylou Harris
Old train - Tony Rice
Three times seven - Hank Thompson
Country boy - Little Jimmy Dickens
Will you be loving another man - Bill Monroe
A two dollar toy - Stoney Edwards
Mansion on the hill - HANK WILLIAMS
Harriet - Red Foley
Darlin' am I the one? - Carl Smith
Sally was a good ole girl - Buck Owens
Through the bottom of a glass - The Seldom Scene (featuring Linda Ronstadt)
Teddy bear song - Tanya Tucker
Young love - Sonny James
Happy trails - Hays County Gals & Pals
Peace in the valley - Red Foley

08/02/2024

Webb, Ray, Willie, Connie, Don & Red, Moe & Joe, Waylon & Willie, Georgette and her Dad... lots of good stuff today! Join me 12-2pm CT, FM 89.9 in Memphis and streaming at www.wevl.org . The last two shows are archived at https://spinitron.com/WEVL/dj/87465/Ken

(Photo: Charlie Walker, Johnny Cash, T. Tex Tyler)

(First hour)
I'll catch you when you fall - Charlie Walker
There stands the glass - Webb Pierce
Sittin' and thinkin' - Ray Price
Laying my burdens down - Willie Nelson
Sorrow and pain - The Davis Sisters
East bound freight train - Don Reno & Red Smiley
The hinges on the door - Connie Smith
H***y tonk queen - Joe Stampley & Moe Bandy
Sorrow's tearing down the house - Little Jimmy Dickens
The last round-up - Gene Autry
El Paso - Marty Robbins
When I call your name - Vince Gilll
You're still on my mind - George Jones
It's wonderful - Eddie Bond
Sweeter than the flowers - Rose Lee Maphis
Moonlight and skies - Jimmie Rodgers
Good hearted woman - Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson
Misery and gin - Merle Haggard
Goodbye Mr. Brown - Roy Acuff & Kitty Wells
Lazy day - Charlie Monroe

(Second hour)
Louisiana Saturday night - Mel McDaniel
Then who am I - Charley Pride
Your good girl's gonna go bad Tammy Wynette
You are the one - Carl Smith
That's when your heartaches begin - ELVIS PRESLEY
That's the way love goes - Lefty Frizzell
You and me and time - Georgette Jones & George Jones
Baby, we're really in love - HANK WILLIAMS
Tennessee waltz - Patti Page
I want to play house with you - Eddy Arnold
Sweet memories - The Time Jumpers
Pride - Ray Price
Commercial affection - Mel Tillis
It's better to have loved a little - Hank Thompson
Set me free - Charlie Rich
Harper Valley P.T.A. - Jeannie C. Riley
Right or wrong - Wanda Jackson
Ragtime Annie - The Blue Sky Boys
Wings of a dove - Ferlin Husky

01/02/2024

Loretta, Merle, and many other country greats from 12-2pm CT today, FM 89.9 in Memphis and streaming at www.wevl.org If you miss me live, recent shows are archived at https://spinitron.com/WEVL/dj/87465/Ken

(Photo: Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn)

(First hour)
No one will ever know - Hank Snow
Woman of the world (leave my world alone) - Loretta Lynn
Ancient history - Billy Walker
The girl most likely - Jeannie C. Riley
It tickles - Tommy Collins
Mind your own business - HANK WILLIAMS
Goodnight Irene - Ernest Tubb-& Red Foley
Lonely side of town - Kitty Wells
Grover - Daniel Crabtree
Take me to your world - Tammy Wynette
Pass me by - JOHNNY RODRIGUEZ
I love you a thousand ways - Lefty Frizzell
Georgia on my mind - Willie Nelson
Natural high - Merle Haggard
Old time religion - Hoot & Curley and Jack Ford
Teddy bear - Red Sovine
The snakes crawl at night - Charley Pride
I cried again - Jimmy Martin
North to Alaska - Johnny Horton
Black land farmer - Frankie Miller

(Second hour)
A heart like you - Connie Smith
Making believe - Jimmy Work
Hello walls - Faron Young
Little rock getaway - Leon McAuliffe
Living in the danger zone - Margie Singleton
Jukebox Charlie - Johnny Paycheck
Pearly May's Place - Ernest Tubb
Pistol packin' mama - Al Dexter
Miss Molly - Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys
Mountain Rosa Lee - The York Brothers
Sometimes a man takes a drink - Larry Cordle
She'll leave you with a smile - George Strait
Hundred proof memories - George Jones
A nickel for the fiddler - Guy Clark
This cold war with you - Ray Price
Don't it make my brown eyes blue - Crystal Gayle
I'm throwing rice (at the girl I love) - Eddy Arnold
Hayride outro - Louisiana Hayride gang
Wicked path of sin - Bill Monroe

25/01/2024

Stop on by for some country classics 12-2pm CT today, FM 89.9 in Memphis and streaming at www.wevl.org . Playlist is below and archived shows are at https://spinitron.com/WEVL/dj/87465/Ken

(Photo: Goldie Hill & Justin Tubb)

(First hour)
Sure fire kisses - Justin Tubb & Goldie Hill
Just wait till I get you alone - Carl Smith
You're gonna change (or I'm gonna leave) - HANK WILLIAMS
I walk alone - Marty Robbins
Anymore - Connie Smith
Rider - The Seldom Scene
The last word in lonesome is me - Eddy Arnold
Till I gain control again - Emmylou Harris
Looking out my back door - Special Consensus
I can't get there from here - George Jones
Carolyn - Merle Haggard
River in the rain - Roger Miller
500 miles away from home - Bobby Bare
Before I'm over you - Ernest Tubb-
How beautiful heaven must be - Roy Acuff
Pig in a pen - The Stanley Brothers
Hall of shame - Melba Montgomery
Love, love, love - Webb Pierce
Taillights blue - Alan Jackson
He called me baby - Patsy Cline

(Second hour)
Lovin' her was easier - Tompall & The Glaser Brothers
Grand Ole Opry Song - Jimmy Martin
Afraid to care - Cal Smith
Wings upon your horns - Loretta Lynn
Roll on big mama - Joe Stampley
Cash on the barrelhead - The Louvin Brothers
Smoke on the water - Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys
Tumbling tumbleweeds - Sons of the Pioneers
Mammas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys - Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson
You're the best break this old heart ever had - Ed Bruce
Wichita lineman - Glen Campbell
Amarillo highway - Terry Allen
Send me the pillow you dream on - Hank Locklin
I want you, I need you, I love you - ELVIS PRESLEY
I walk the line - Johnny Cash
Why baby why - Webb Pierce & Red Sovine
Cumberland gap - The Blue Sky Blues
I'll meet you in the morning - Skeeter Davis

18/01/2024

Here's today's playlist. Join me 12-2pm CT, FM 89.9 in Memphis and streaming at www.wevl.org . Archived shows are at https://spinitron.com/WEVL/dj/87465/Ken

(First hour)
Just can't live that fast (anymore) - Lefty Frizzell
H***y tonk song - Webb Pierce
On tap, in the can, or in the bottle - Hank Thompson
Another bridge to burn - Ray Price
Little ole wine drinker me - Charlie Walker
I'm so used to loving you - Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn
This time - Waylon Jennings
Fourteen carat mind Gene Watson
Broad-minded man - Jim Ed Brown
The yellow rose of Texas - Gene Autry
Little sparrow - Dolly Parton
I don't want to spoil the party - Rosanne Cash
You don't hear - Kitty Wells
Are you missing me - Jim & Jesse
Let the chips fall - Charley Pride
Ninety miles an hour (down a dead end street) - Hank Snow
She met a stranger, I met a train - Tommy Cash
Charlie's shoes - Billy Walker
Girl on the billboard - Del Reeves
I'm ready if you're willing - Johnny Horton

(Second hour)
Cherokee boogie - Moon Mullican
H***y tonkin' - HANK WILLIAMS
You better not go - Skeets McDonald
Pack up your sorrows - Johnny Cash & June Carter
Let me touch you for awhile - Alison Krauss & Union Station
When the grass grows over me - George Jones
Put it off until tomorrow - Bill Phillips
I'm a one woman man - Johnny Horton
Wreck of the old 97 - Mac Wiseman
Stevens deep coal mines - Jim Hurst
Amarillo by morning - George Strait
I'm S-A-V-E-D - Karl & Harty w/ Cumberland Ridge Runners
Rag mop - P*e Wee King
D.I.V.O.R.C.E. - Tammy Wynette
Touch my heart - Johnny Paycheck
Together again - Buck Owens
Funny how time slips away - Willie Nelson
Buckaroo - Buck Owens
I feel better all over - Ferlin Husky
You and me - Red Foley & Kitty Wells
Abilene - George Hamilton IV:
Chubby's cacklin' hen - Chubby Wise
Wait a little longer - George Jones & Melba Montgomery