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This morning is our first ever Listener’s Choice show. For over two years, I have been announcing before most breaks that “Requests, dedications, questions, and corrections can be sent to wvmoclassiccountrycorner@gmail or wvmoclassiccountrycorner on Instagram.” Listener Katie took that humble statement to the next level and provided a spreadsheet of songs and artists grouped by preference( first choice,second choice, third choice) , tempo (a separate tab for slow jams) and notable cover versions of that song. HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED Johnny Cash “Folsom Prison Blues (Live at Folsom State Prison, Folsom, CA - January 1968)” Charley Pride “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’” Patsy Cline “Walkin after Midnight” Willie Nelson “On the Road Again (Live)” John Denver “Thank God I’m a Country Boy” Nitty Gritty Dirt Band “Cadillac Ranch” The Charlie Daniels Band “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” Alabama “Song of the South” Hank Williams Jr. “Family Tradition” The Oak Ridge Boys “Elvira ” Randy Travis “The Hole” Alan Jackson “Chasin’ That Neon Rainbow” Garth Brooks “American Honky-Tonk Bar Association” Jo Dee Messina “Heads Carolina, Tails California” Diamond Rio “Night Is Fallin’ in My Heart” Do Not Send Your Cards,Letters or Faxes. Stop by Classic Country Corner with me, Eric the Driftless Cowboy, every Saturday morning at 8 on 98.7 WVMO on your FM Dial in the Monona/Madison area or Stream online at WVMO.FM Or listen on the Tunein or Radio Garden app This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit classiccountrycorner.substack.com

HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED JOHN PRINE SONGS IN HONOR OF HIS 80TH BIRTHDAY Johnny Cash “Paradise” Johnny Cash “Unwed Fathers” Johnny Cash “Sam Stone (Live)” Tanya Tucker “Angel from Montgomery” HAPPY SONGS Dolly Parton “Gettin’ Happy” Dolly Parton “Walking On Sunshine” Charley Pride “Happy Street” Hoyt Axton “Joy To The World” Susan Raye “(I’ve Got a) Happy Heart” The Sons Of The Pioneers “Happy Roving Cowboy” MAMA SONGS Merle Haggard “Mama Tried” Dottie West “Mommy, Can I Still Call Him Daddy” Loretta Lynn “Mama, Why?” Don Gibson “Bad Bad Day” George Jones “You Gotta Be My Baby” John Denver “Blow up Your TV (Spanish Pipe Dream)” This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit classiccountrycorner.substack.com

Normally I would say we are back with another all analog, all vintage. all vinyl show, but for some reason I do not own a record with ‘Crying Time’ by Buck Owens on it. So this is a 99% analog, 99% Vintage 99% vinyl show.This morning we have a little bit of everything, Some happy songs, some sad songs and some just plain silly songs. HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED MORNING SONGS Don Williams “Come Early Morning” Mac Davis “The Lonesomest Lonesome” Eddie Rabbitt “Early In the Mornin’” Roger Miller “I Get Up Early In the Morning” Buck Owens “Hello Trouble” CRYIN’ SONGS Buck Owens & His Buckaroos “Cryin’ Time” Charley Pride “A Good Chance of Tear-Fall Tonight” Hank Williams “I Wish I Had A Nickel” Freddy Fender “Before the Next Teardrop Falls” Connie Smith “Once A Day” Johnny Cash “Cry, Cry, Cry” TRAIN SONGS Hank Snow “The Wreck OF The Old ‘97” Merle Haggard & The Strangers “Hobo Bill’s Last Ride” Waylon Jennings “Time To Bum Again” WEIRD SONGS TO END THE SHOW George Kent “Hello, I’m a Jukebox” Doyle Holly “The Biggest Storm of All” Lynn Anderson “I Wish I Was a Little Boy Again” Nate Gibson “Fear the Beer” On Classic Country Corner we play Classic Country Music from the likes of Willie, Waylon, Johnny, Dolly, Tammy, and Merle plus one-hit wonders and songs should’ve been hits. Every Saturday you will hear songs about trains, trucks, mamas, prison and gettin' drunk from all your Classic Country Favorites. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit classiccountrycorner.substack.com

Here’s what we played: DRINKIN’ SONGS (IN THE MORNING!) George Jones “Swingin’ Doors” Billy Walker “There Stands the Glass” Carl Smith “Drinking Champagne” Charlie Rich “Sittin’ And Thinkin’” Lynn Anderson “Stay There ‘Til I Get There” Loretta Lynn “Don’t Come Home a-Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ On Your Mind)” BASEBALL SONGS Nate Gibson “Fear the Beer” Nate Gibson “The Jackie Robinson of Country Music” Nate Gibson “The Sausage Race Is On” Alabama “The Cheap Seats” Del Reeves “The Philadelphia Fillies” POTPURRI Mel Tillis “Coca-Cola Cowboy” The Statler Brothers “How To Be A Country Star” Hank Thompson “Paying Off the Interest With My Tears” Jimmy Dean “I Won’t Go Huntin’ With You Jake” Freddie Hart “I Forgot To Remember To Forget”Nate Gibson’s album, “Fear the Beer,” is available on Bandcamp. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit classiccountrycorner.substack.com

Wedding Bells are ringing here at Classic Country Corner. Superfans Matt and Joanna will be tying the knot later today. So this morning we will be playing Songs of love, devotion and matrimony in their honor. HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED SONGS OF DEVOTION Buck Owens “Love’s Gonna Live Here” Johnny Cash & June Carter “Jackson” Bonnie Owens & Merle Haggard “Forever and Ever” Patsy Cline “Always (feat. The Jordanaires)” Johnny Horton “I’m A One Woman Man” SONGS OF MATRIMONY George Jones & Tammy Wynette “The Ceremony” Randy Travis “Forever and Ever, Amen” George Jones “The Right Left Hand” Buck Owens “We Were Made for Each Other” Don Williams “It Must Be Love” Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash “Darlin’ Companion (Live)” SONGS FOR SLOW DANCING George Strait “I Cross My Heart” Anne Murray “Could I Have This Dance” Ernest Tubb “Waltz Across Texas” Diamond Rio “Meet In The Middle” Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers “Islands In the Stream” George Jones & Tammy Wynette “Golden Ring” This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit classiccountrycorner.substack.com

The theme of this week’s show, well there really isn’t one. I had a busy week. Tuesday night I saw Charley Crockett at the Sylvee and then Thursday night I popped down to Chicago to see Bob Mould and Sugar. (ashow i’d been waiting 30 years to see). So I’m a bit worn out from soo much activity on a school night. My notes say “Shut up and play the hits” So we are going to do exactly that. HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED Charley Pride “Kiss An Angel Good Mornin’” Johnny Cash “Folsom Prison Blues” Hank Williams “Hey Good Lookin (feat. The Drifting Cowboys)” Jeannie C. Riley “Harper Valley P.T.A.” Buck Owens “Above And Beyond” Willie Nelson “Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain” Waylon Jennings “Good Hearted Woman” Tanya Tucker “Delta Dawn” Conway Twitty “Hello Darlin’” Loretta Lynn “Happy Birthday” Connie Smith “Once A Day” George Jones “He Stopped Loving Her Today” Merle Haggard “Today I Started Loving You Again” Tammy Wynette “Stand By Your Man” Diamond Rio “Norma Jean Riley” Tom T. Hall “Faster Horses (The Cowboy And The Poet)” Dolly Parton “Do I Ever Cross Your Mind” This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit classiccountrycorner.substack.com

We are back with another all analog, all vintage all vinyl show! This morning we will be playing tracks from albums that I received for my birthday this year from my wonderful parents, who have made it their mission to rescue as many records as possible from the thrift stores and tractor auctions across Wisconsin.There really isn’t any overarching theme this week, other than the usual subjects of heartache, drinking and criminal activity. HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED Wynn Stewart “Playboy” Billy Walker “I Guess Things Happen That Way” Connie Smith & Nat Stuckey “I Got You” Ray Price “Heartaches By the Number” Ray Price “Crazy Arms” Dolly Parton “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels” (excerpt) Dolly Parton “Making Believe” Mickey Gilley “Drinking Old Memories Down” Hank Snow “The Golden Rocket” Eddy Arnold “Many Tears Ago” Carl Smith “It’s Teardrop Time” George Jones “Please Don’t Let That Woman Get Me” Hank Locklin “She Thinks I Still Care” Stonewall Jackson “I Washed My Hands in Muddy Water” George Morgan “I’ll Sail My Ship Alone” Webb Pierce “Heebie Jeebie Blues” Jimmy Dean “Gotta Travel On” Johnny Cash “Understand Your Man (Mono)” Stop by Classic Country Corner with me, Eric the Driftless Cowboy, every Saturday morning at 8 on 98.7 WVMO on your FM Dial in the Monona/Madison area or Stream online at WVMO.FM Or listen on the Tunein or Radio Garden app This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit classiccountrycorner.substack.com

In Wisconsin, Labor Day became an official state holiday in 1893. Labor Day became a national holiday in 1894. President Grover Cleveland, after breaking the American Railway Union with considerable violence and loss of life, signed a bill making the first Monday in September a national holiday for American workers. It was a blatant attempt to win back public support after using Federal Troops to break the Pullman Strike earlier that summer. HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED Workin’ Working Man Blues Merle Haggard Heaven Help the Working Girl Norma Jean Lord Have Mercy on the Working Man Travis Tritt Forty Hour Week (For a Livin’) Alabama 9 to 5 Dolly Parton Coal Minin’ Sixteen Tons Tennessee Ernie Ford Coal Miner’s Daughter Loretta Lynn Nine Pound Hammer Flatt & Scruggs Dark As A Dungeon Merle Travis Harlan County Jim Ford Gettin’ Back at Your Boss A Working Man Can’t Get Nowhere Today Merle Haggard Sawmill Mel Tillis They’ll Never Keep Us Down Hazel Dickens Oney Johnny Cash Take This Job and Shove It Johnny Paycheck Lest We Forget Solidarity Forever Pete Seeger Wisconsin’s most historic and bloody labor incident occurred on May 5, 1886 on the shores of Lake Michigan in the Bay View area of Milwaukee. Some 1,500 workers marched toward the Bay View Rolling Mills (then the area’s biggest manufacturer) urging the workers there to strike, demanding an eight-hour work day. The local militia, called to the scene by Governor Jeremiah Rusk, fired on the crowd, killing seven people and ending the march. The event became known as the Bay View Massacre. I encourage you to stop by Classic Country Corner with me, Eric the Driftless Cowboy, every Saturday morning at 8 on 98.7 WVMO on your FM Dial in the Monona/Madison area or Stream online at WVMO.FM Or listen on the Tunein or Radio Garden app This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit classiccountrycorner.substack.com

We suffered a huge loss in Country Music this week. Dolly Parton passed away on Tuesday after a brief battle with Cancer. Dolly was 80 years old. This morning’s show is our tribute to Dolly Parton. She was a prolific artist who wrote hundreds of songs, so we can only begin to scratch the surface of her catalog. We will be playing songs performed by Dolly, written by Dolly and made famous by Dolly. HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED Dolly Parton “Here I Am” Dolly Parton “Why’d You Come In Here Lookin’ Like That” Glen Campbell “Light of a Clear Blue Morning” Buck Owens “Nickels and Dimes” Emmylou Harris “Coat of Many Colors” Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton “We’ve Got Tonight” Olivia Newton-John “Jolene” Linda Ronstadt “I Will Always Love You” Waylon Jennings “Waltz Me to Heaven” Lynn Anderson “Two Doors Down” Dolly Parton “9 To 5” Merle Haggard “Kentucky Gambler” Billie Jo Spears “Here You Come Again” Tina Turner “There’ll Always Be Music” Thanks for reading Classic Country Corner! This post is public so feel free to share it. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit classiccountrycorner.substack.com

Sometimes you get an idea and you just have to see it through, with that in mind The theme of this week’s show is Route 66. We will be playing songs that mention the cities on that famous highway. HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED SET ONE: ON THE ROAD Wayne Hancock “Route 66” Dolly Parton “In the Ghetto” Jerry Reed “Saint Louis Blues” Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys “Take Me Back to Tulsa” Don Williams “Tulsa Time” SET TWO: TEXAS HALFWAY POINT George Strait “Amarillo By Morning” Emmylou Harris “Amarillo” Bobby Bare “Amarillo Highway” Johnny Cash “New Mexico” Linda Ronstadt “Willin’” Dale Watson “Tucumcari, Here I Come” SET THREE: NEW MEXICO AND THE HOME STRETCH Asleep At The Wheel “Albuquerque” Charley Crockett “Albuquerque Lights” Buck Owens “Take It Easy” Guy Clark “L.A. Freeway” R.I.P. FRANK BEARD Dwight Yoakam “I’m Bad, I’m Nationwide” This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit classiccountrycorner.substack.com

THIS WEEK WE HAVE ANOTHER ALL ANALOG, ALL VINTAGE, ALL VINYL SHOW! WE WILL BE HEARING SONGS FROM NOT ONE BUT TWO KTEL COMPILATIONS THAT HAVE THE EXACT SAME PICTURE ON THE COVER (THAT WOULD BE 18 ORIGINAL COUNTRY HITS AND THE SEQUEL 20 ORIGINAL COUNTRY HITS. AND IT IS JUST A GRAVEL ROAD, AND WE WILL BE PLAYING SELECTIONS SOME OTHER TREASURES RESCUED FROM THE DOLLAR BIN AS WELL. Charlie Rich “Behind Closed Doors” Mel Tillis “I Ain’t Never” Tammy Wynette & George Jones “We’re Gonna Hold On” Sonny James “Is It Wrong (For Loving You)” Barbara Mandrell “The Midnight Oil” Wynn Stewart “It’s Such A Pretty World Today” Wanda Jackson “Jambalaya (On the Bayou)” The Hagers “Your Tender Loving Care” Charlie Louvin “Will You Visit Me On Sundays” Melba Montgomery “Don’t Keep Me Lonely Too Long” Johnny Russell “Rednecks, White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer” Ed Bruce “Mama’s Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys” Gary Stewart “She’s Actin’ Single (I’m Drinkin’ Doubles)” Merle Haggard “I Think I’ll Just Stay Here and Drink” Jerry Reed “(I’m Just a) Redneck In a Rock and Roll Bar” Roy Rogers “Okie From Muskogee” This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit classiccountrycorner.substack.com

HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED STONE COLD CLASSICS Buck Owens & His Buckaroos “Buckaroo” Johnny Cash “There You Go” Buck Owens “I’ve Got A Tiger By The Tail” Loretta Lynn “Fist City” SONGS ABOUT SOFT (?) DRINKS George Jones “Root Beer” Grandpa Jones “Mountain Dew” Billie Jo Spears “The Price I Pay to Stay” SECOND SET(AKA THE BUMMER SET) If there was any doubt that this is a LIVE show with real vinyl records, we answered that question by cueing up the wrong song more than once. Kenny Rogers “Don’t Fall In Love With a Dreamer” Charley Pride “Before the next teardrop falls” Willie Nelson “Sad Songs And Waltzes” SONGS ABOUT MUSIC One of our favorite themes. Mickey Gilley “#1 Rock ‘N’ Roll C&W Boogie Blues Man” Margo Smith “The Shuffle Song (Rerecorded)” SONGS FROM SENIOR YEAR In honor of my upcoming high school class reunion, we play some songs that were on the radio when I was a Senior in high school. Alan Jackson “Don’t Rock the Jukebox” George Strait “I’ve Come To Expect It From You” Travis Tritt “Here’s a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)” Trisha Yearwood “She’s In Love With the Boy” Garth Brooks “Friends In Low Places” This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit classiccountrycorner.substack.com

The theme for the first section of this week’s show comes from this video that Classic Country Corner Superfan Jenna in McFarland sent me. I’ll be honest, there are dozens if not hundreds of songs about men killing their significant others or objects of their desire, there’s even a term for it “murder ballad”. But songs where it is the other way around? not so much. I was able to find a few female murder ballads where the roles are reversed. After two years of hosting this show,I realized that the middle section is usually “The Bummer Set”😆 This week’s bummers are all about being left at the alter or watching your beloved marry someone else. As per station direction, we cannot legally end the show on a maudlin note. The last set of songs is all about blissful weddings and true love. HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED Killin’ Your Man Because He Done You Wrong SongsWanda Jackson The Box It Came InWanda Jackson My Big Iron SkilletPatsy Montana I Didn’t Know the Gun Was Loaded Olivia Newton-John Banks Of The OhioSierra Ferrell RosemaryAbbey Cone Don’t Let Your Cowboys Grow Up to Be Babies No Wedding Today SongsDon Rich Wham BamJimmie Davis There Won’t Be a WeddingHank Snow I Went To Your WeddingLinda Martell The Wedding Cake Lyle Lovett She’s No Lady There is Going To Be A Wedding!! George Jones, Tammy Wynette The CeremonyBonnie Owens, Merle Haggard Forever And EverJohnny Cash, June Carter Cash JacksonGeorge Jones The Right Left HandRandy Travis Forever and Ever, AmenJohnny Rodriguez That’s The Way Love GoesCongratulations to Mark and Jenna who were married shortly after this episode aired! I encourage you to stop by Classic Country Corner with me, Eric the Driftless Cowboy, every Saturday morning at 8 on 98.7 WVMO on your FM Dial in the Monona/Madison area or Stream online at WVMO.FM Or listen on the Tunein or Radio Garden app Thanks for reading Classic Country Corner! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit classiccountrycorner.substack.com

HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED Johnny Cash “Folsom Prison Blues” Cowboy Copas “Flat Top” George Jones “Why Baby Why” David Houston “It’s Been So Long” Stoneman Family “The Sinking of the Titanic” Dave Dudley “Six Days On The Road” Red Sovine “Giddy-Up-Go” Buck Owens “Down On The Corner Of Love” Rose Maddox “Why Don’t You Haul Off and Love Me” Merle Kilgore “Love Has Made You Beautiful” Flatt & Scruggs “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” Minnie Pearl “Giddyup Go Answer” Tammy Wynette “I Don’t Wanna Play House” Carl Smith “Deep Water” Wynn Stewart & The Tourists “Wishful Thinking” Jimmy Dean “This Old House” Tennessee Ernie Ford “Put Your Hand in the Hand” Thanks for reading Classic Country Corner! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit classiccountrycorner.substack.com

We are flipping over the records we played last week to find some more treasures from our recent acquisitions. HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED The Willis Brothers “There Goes My Farm” The Willis Brothers “Buying Popcorn” Marty Robbins “Devil Woman” Johnny Cash “Understand Your Man” Lefty Frizzell “She’s Gone, Gone, Gone” Dolly Parton “Muleskinner Blues” Leon Ashley “Laura (What’s He Got That I Ain’t Got)” Nat Stuckey “Plastic Saddle” Jerry Reed “Amos Moses” Charlie Rich “I Do My Swingin’ At Home” Stonewall Jackson “Promises and Hearts (Were Made to Break)” George Jones “Any Old Time” Sonny James “I’ll Be There” Johnny Horton “I’m a One Woman Man” (FOUR SONGS IN SEVEN MINUTES!!!!!) Glen Campbell “Wedding Bells” Tex Ritter “I Dreamed of a Hill-Billy Heaven” “Little” Jimmy Dickens “A-Sleepin’ At the Foot of the Bed” Tennessee Ernie Ford “This Land Is Your Land ” ( the inspiration for playing that song this week below. Woody Guthrie’s daughter Norah takes a verse) I encourage you to stop by Classic Country Corner with me, Eric the Driftless Cowboy, every Saturday morning at 8 on 98.7 WVMO on your FM Dial in the Monona/Madison area or Stream online at WVMO.FM Or listen on the Tunein or Radio Garden app This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit classiccountrycorner.substack.com