Stories About Anything Country Music Related

[sabre14]

Jul 15, 2016 1:30:44 GMT -5 Ten Pound Hammer said:

Thinking back on these trips, I remember hearing a lot of country songs that WKJC never played. I remember off the top of my head: "Burnin' the Roadhouse Down" and "Every Little Whisper" by Steve Wariner, "Guilty" and "She Wants to Rock" by The Warren Brothers, "A Bitter End" by Deryl Dodd, "When Mama Ain't Happy" by Tracy Byrd, "No More Looking over My Shoulder" by Travis Tritt, "By the Book" by Michael Peterson, "I Was" by Neal McCoy (also remember asking my mom what "William and Mary" was), "Your Own Little Corner of My Heart" and "I Need You All the Time" by Blackhawk, "The Fun of Your Love" by Jennifer Day, "Me and Maxine" by Sammy Kershaw, "Love Trip" by Jerry Kilgore, "Lonely" by Tracy Lawrence, "Jimmy's Got a Girlfriend" by The Wilkinsons, "She Ain't the Girl for You" by The Kinleys, and of course, "Are Your Eyes Still Blue" by Shane McAnally.

I also remember sitting in the parking lot of the Alpena Walmart and hearing "Wrong Five O'Clock" by Eric Heatherly.

I could go on and on and on and on with songs I heard on the radio in parking lots, while running errands with my Dad on weekends growing up.

I recall hearing "Run, Run, Run" by Ryan Tyler in the parking lot of a Jo Ann Fabrics store while he was getting some supplies for my Mom's craft hobby/business. I also vividly recall hearing songs like "Mrs. Steven Rudy", "Real Life (I Never Was The Same Again)" and  "Don't Happen Twice" in the parking lot of the airport post office when my Dad was mailing packages, during the night. I also remember hearing "Rose Garden" by Martina McBride in that same parking lot the first time a few years later.

[Ten Pound Hammer]

ETA: I forgot to mention "Forever Works for Me" by Neal McCoy as an Alpena song.

More random recollections:

The first country music video I remember seeing was for "Hot Pink" by Eddy Raven. All I remember was a steel guitarist playing his instrument in the middle of a street. I have looked all over, and can barely even find proof that the SONG exists much less the video (although I do have the album).

This past week, we heard ACC Rewind, and my mom said that she remembered hearing "I Guess You Had to Be There" by Lorrie Morgan in the parking lot of the day care my sister and I used to go to.

Before I was born, she said she remembered hearing "Don't Cheat in Our Hometown" by Ricky Skaggs while driving down Mill Street, and felt the need to share this song with my dad...

I remember hearing "Two Timin' Me" by the Remingtons in Oscoda in either the Subway, or the very short lived Mexican eatery that occupied that building after it ceased to be a TCBY but before Subway came in.

On one of our trips to Mackinaw City to walk the bridge on Labor Day, I remember hearing Scotty Emerick's "I Can't Take You Anywhere". This came as a surprise since we were familiar with Toby's version from the "Pull My Chain" album.

WKJC used to do a year end countdown of their 104 most played songs of the year (because their frequency is 104.7). I remember "Gettin' Back to You" by Daisy Dern and a bunch of otherwise unfamiliar songs near the bottom of their 2002 countdown, and "The One" by Gary Allan at #1.

On the way back from the first church I played organ at, I also heard "Run, Run, Run" at the bottom of the countdown, because WATZ was playing ACC while WKJC was still playing church services. I also heard "If That Ain't Country" by Anthony Smith, "Country Ain't Country" by Travis Tritt, and "No Regrets Yet" by Sonya Isaacs, to name a few.

I saw the video for "Half a Heart Tattoo" by Jennifer Hanson at the gym once.

The PD of WKJC gave me free CDs now and then. I got a Crook & Chase from September 1997 that had a few treasures on it, like "Another Perfect Day" by Blake & Brian, "Nickajack" by River Road, and "Living in a House Full of Love" by Gary Allan. He also gave me an ACC from late 2001 that had "Carry On" by Pat Green (I didn't like that song at the time, but love it now), "Life Don't Have to Be So Hard" by Tracy Lawrence, and "If You Ever Feel Like Lovin' Me Again" by Clay Walker among others.

In the early 2000s, WKJC played some syndicated night show that did a showoff between two new singles. I remember one time, one of the new singles was "Louisianna CoCo" by the Kentucky Headhunters, which floored me since I hadn't heard anything by them on the radio in years.

In 1995, I remember seeing a string of CMT videos at my grandma's that included "The Tin Man" by Kenny Chesney, "Tryin' to Get to New Orleans" by The Tractors, "Get Back" by Steve Wariner, among others. Over the years, I also remember seeing the videos for "On a Good Night" by Wade Hayes and "Hillbilly Shoes" by Montgomery Gentry at her house, and the video for Shane Minor's "Ordinary Love" at my aunt's.

One time, when going to WKJC studios to pick up a prize, mom and I heard "That's Enough of That" by Mila Mason and "What Will You Do with M-E?" by Western Flyer back to back (probably on the countdown). I remember both of us discussing the former's grammatically-incorrect line "enough of this over-react".

I used to go to a doctor in Traverse City, and I remember their station playing "Let's Kill Saturday Night" by Pinmonkey. I had already known that song through 5 Chinese Brothers' version, which I remember not liking, and I initially stated that I gave Pinmonkey's version a pass only because it was Pinmonkey. Then I heard it a few more times and it grew on me. A while later in Novi, I was looking through the f.y.e. at Twelve Oaks Mall in hopes of finding the album with LKSN on it. I found the independent album they did before they signed to BNA, but didn't buy it because it was $25.

The Traverse City station also played a request for "Second Hand Heart" by Gary Morris once, which surprised me as it was the first time I'd ever heard that name.

I've probably mentioned this before, but the first request I ever made at WKJC was when I was just shy of 5 years old. I had gone out fishing with their then-morning guy, Harry Blaylock, and asked him to play me a Collin Raye song since I had just seen him in concert at a local bar (my first concert, in fact). He played "Every Second". Right after it, he played "Power Tools" by Ray Stevens, which I ended up requesting again that fall to celebrate my first day of kindergarten. Mom also bought the Ray Stevens album with that song on it.

[robenglund]

Article about some fair near where I went for undergrad. When you see it... *facepalm*

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Aug 20, 2016 8:36:17 GMT -5 robenglund said:

Article about some fair near where I went for undergrad. When you see it... *facepalm*

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Sweet Jesus! That writer ought to be fired. The level of disrespect is mind boggling.

[.indulgecountry]

I've never understood the misspelling of Reba's last name as 'McIntyre' considering the actual spelling is like way more obvious and easier to grasp. At least with like LeAnn Rimes we can all admit that someone less aware accidentally calling her Lee Ann Rhymes isn't that hard of a jump to make. How strange.