HOUR 1
Alabama - 40 hr week
Merle Haggard - Working Man Blues
Mel Tillis - Sawmill
Dave Dudley - Six Days on The Road
Aaron Tippin - Working Man’s PhD
Bobby Bare - Detroit City
John Rich - Shuttin Detroit Down
Johnny Paycheck - Take This Job And Shove It
Del Reeves - Looking At The World Through A Windshield
Red Foley - Chatanoogie Shoeshine Boy
Dolly Parton - 9 to 5
Kenny Chesney/George Strait - Shiftwork
Brooks and Dunn - Hard Workin’ Man
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Workin’ Man (Nowhere To Go)
Jerry Reed - “Guitarman”

HOUR 2
Garth Brooks/Huey Lewis - Workin’ For A Livin
Glen Campbell - Witchita Linemen
Alabama - High Cotton
News Director Dave Kuharski talks with Illinois State Trooper Graham regarding road safety this holiday weekend
Jody Miller - “Queen of the House”
Chris LeDoux - Workin’ Man’s Dollar
Working Man Can’t Get Nowhere Today - Merle Haggard
Jimmy Dean - Big Bad John
Tennessee Ernie Ford - 16 Tons
LeAnn Rimes f/Eddy Arnold - Cattle Call
John Conlee - Working Man

Last week went over quite well, yet I had so many songs left over.  Granted, many are geared towards the truck drivers out there. Also today, using these road songs to celebrate the Depot Days car show. You got to get out there today! It’s huge! Here’s today’s list:

HOUR 1
Hank Snow - I’ve Benn Everywhere
Stonewall Jackson - Me and You and A Dog Named Boo
Rascal Flats - Life Is A Highway
Red Sovine - Phantom 309
Sawyer Brown - Six Days on the Road
Chely Wright - Shut Up And Drive
Asleep At the Wheel - Hot Rod Lincoln
Merle Haggard - Movin’ On
Joe Stampley - Roll On Bug Mama
Johnny Horton - I’m Coming Home
CW McCall - Convoy

HOUR 2
Aaron Tippin - Ain’t Nothing Wrong With The Radio
Del Reeves - Looking At The World Through A Windshield
Jimmy Martin - Widow Maker
News Director David Kuharski talks with Carol Alcorn of Illinois Valley PADS
Boxcar Willie - Truck Driving Man
Chuck Berry - Promised Land
Glen Campbell - By The Time I Get to Phoenix
Jo Dee Messina - Bye Bye
Oak Ridge Boys - Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight
Red Sovine - Teddy Bear

As summer is winding down, as you take that last road trip, or look forward to your next, here’s a great soundtrack of some of the best in road and trucking music from the Country genre. Enjoy!

HOUR 1
On the Road Again - Nelson, Willie
Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) - Waylon and Willie
Tulsa Time - Don WIlliams
Streets of Bakersfield - Buck Owens
Eastbound and Down - Jerry Reed
Mercury Blues - Alan Jackson
Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses - Kathy Mattea
Highway 40 Blues - Ricky Skaggs
Houston (Means I’m One Day Closer to You) - Gatlin, Larry
Ridin’ My Thumb To Mexico - Johnny Rodriguez
Big Wheels in the Moonlight - Dan Seals
Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler) - Alabama
Texas In My Rear View Mirror - Mac Davis
Drivin’ My Life Away - Eddie Rabbit
(Is Anybody Going To) San Antone - Charley Pride

HOUR 2
Prisoner of the Highway - Ronnie Milsap
Drive South - Suzy Boguss
Wheels - Restless Heart
News Director David talks with Mendota High School Superintendent Jeff Prusator about the proposed athletic stadium, the district’s budget and the school’s 100th year.
Chicken Truck - Anderson, John
Convoy - C.W. McCall
500 Miles Away From Home - Bobby Bare
On A Bus To St. Cloud - Trisha Yearwood
King Of The Road - Roger Miller
Theme From Dukes Of Hazzard - Waylon Jennings

Today, our News Director spoke with Monty Whipple regarding the status of the crops after this first very damp, then very hot and humid, sometimes very dry weather.  To accompany this interview, it was all about the music for the Farmers and Country boys.  From tractors to cows to tending to the field…it’s all for the farmer today.  Here’s the list:

HOUR 1
Craig Morgan - International Harvester
Joe Diffie - John Deer Green
Stompin’ Tom Connors - “poor, poor farmer”
The Judds - Grandpa (Tell Me About The Good Old Days)
Montgomery Gentry - Daddy Won’t Sell the Farm-
Walter Brennan - Old Rivers
Marty Stewart - The Farmer’s Blues
Little Jimmy Dickens - County Boy (Eddy Arnold)
Alabama - Down Home
Bob Wills (Willie Nelson) - Milk Cow Blues
Travis Tritt & Merle Haggard - Where corn dont grow
Bill Andersen (Jimmy Dean) - The Farmer And The Lord
Cledus T Judd - How Do you Milk A Cow

HOUR 2
David Frizell and Shelly West - You’re The Reason God Made Oklahoma
Jason Aldean - Big Green Tractor
The Tractors - Baby Likes To Rock It
News Director David Kuharski talks to Monty Whipple regarding the status of the crops across the region
The Judds - John Deere Tractor
Hank Williams Jr. - Country Boy Can Survive
Alabama - Born Country
“C O U N T R Y” by Joe Diffie

Back to the Bluegrass tunes again today.  Trying to make sure we get in a lot of songs we haven’t played in quite some time (or if ever) during a Bluegrass show.  Here’s the list:

HOUR 1
Ricky Skaggs - Lost and I’ll Never Find My Way
Jim and Jesse - I’ll Love Nobody But You
Johnson Mountain Boys - Let The Whole World Talk
Kossoy Sisters - Bowling Green
Special Consensus - Green Rolling Hills
Boone Reid - Johnson Boys
New Tradition - Smoky Mountain Sunday Morn
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Mama’s Opry
Allison Krauss and Gillian Welch - I’ll Fly Away
Fox Valley Grass - Fox on The Run
Buddy Davis - Workin on the Railroad
Bluegrass Cardinals - I Wonder Where You Are Tonight
Eddie Adcock and Martha - Bound To Ride
Mac Wiseman - Little Rosewood Casket
Merle Travis & Joe Maphis - Lil Liza Jane

HOUR 2
Nashville Bluegrass Band - Get A Transfer
Lynn Morris - What Was I Supposed To Do
Sam Bush - Leather Britches
News Director David Kuharski talks with new Mendota Elementary Superintendant Dr. School
Norman Blake - You Are My Sunshine
J.D. Crowe - Old Home Place
The Dry Branch Fire Squad - Devil, Take The Farmer
Steve Wariner and Ricky Skaggs - Heavy Traffic Ahead
Whitstein Brothers - Mansion on the Hill
Osbourne Brothers - Georgia Mules and Country Boys

This week, Hank Cochran lost his battle with cancer, and country music lost an amazing songwriter.  Today we honor the songs he’s written, and the artists he’s worked with.  What an amazing man!

HOUR 1
Hank Cochran - Sally was A Good Old Girl
Willie Nelson - Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
Ray Price - Crazy Arms
Eddy Arnold - Make the World Go Away
Chet Atkins & Jerry Reed - Here We Are
Bobby Lord - Out Behind the Barn
Patsy Cline - I fall To pieces
Lefty Frizell - If you’ve Got the Money
Burl Ives - Little Bitty Tear
Stonewall Jackson - Waterloo
Jack Greene - There Goes My Everything
George Jones - Why Baby Why
Ronnie Milsap - “Don’t You Ever Get Tired of Hurting Me?”

HOUR 2
George Strait - The Chair
Patsy Cline - Why Can’t He Be You
David Kuharski talks w/Jenna Hague of the American Cancer Society regarding the Earlville Relay for Life
Eddy Arnold - I Want To Go With You
Jeannie Seely - Don’t Touch me
Merle Haggard - It’s Not Love, But It’s Not Bad / My Friends are Gonna Be Strangers
Buck Owens - A11
Vern Gosdin - Set Em Up Joe
George Strait - Ocean Front Property
Patsy Cline - She’s Got You

Well, it’s been HOT lately, it’s summertime, and what better way to celebrate than with the songs of summer (also songs about “Hot” stuff)!  Here’s the list:

HOUR 1
Garth Brooks - That Summer
Alan Jackson - Summertime Blues
Glen Campbell - Southern Nights
Mel McDaniel - Louisiana Saturday Night
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Fishin in the Dark
Eddy Raven - Bayou Boys
Kenny Rogers - The Greatest
Alabama - The Cheap Seats
Jerry Reed - When You’re Hot, You’re Hot
George Strait - The Fireman
Craig Morgan - Redneck Yacht Club
Chris Ladoux - County Fair
Kenny Chesney - No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problem
Clint Black - Summer’s Comin’
Tracy Byrd - Watermelon Crawl

HOUR 2
Billy Crash Craddock - Rub It In
Travis Tritt - Burning Love
Brad Paisley - I’m Gonna Miss Her
News Director David Kuharski talks with Jeff Prusator all about current issues impacting Mendota High
Kenny Chesney - Summertime
David Lee Murphy - Loco
Alabama - Dixieland Delight
Garth Brooks - Two Pina Coladas
Hank Williams Sr. - Jambalya
Diamond Rio - Sweet Summer
Alan Jackson - Chatahoochee

As we celebrate our nation’s 234th Birthday, I shut off the mic and let the music take over as much as possible.  I believe we have the best playlist today that we’ve ever had for a patriotic show.  It’s focused more on the country than wars and the troops.  Honoring yes, the soliders, but also the flag, the land, the people, and what make our country so great! Glad you enjoyed it.  I certainly appreciated your calls too!  Here’s the playlist:

HOUR 1
Star Spangled Banner - Alabama
God Bless the USA - Lee Greenwood
The Pledge of Allegiance - John Wayne
The Americans (A Canadian’s Opinion) - Tex Ritter
Ragged Old Flag - Johnny Cash
Ballad of the Green Berets - Sgt Barry Sadler
American Trilogy - Elvis Presley
America - Waylon Jennings
God Bless America - Kate Smith
There’s A Star Spangled Flag Waving Somewhere - Elton Britt
American Child - Phil Vassar
Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly - Aaron Tippin
Another Day in America - Glen Campbell
America, the Good Things - John Wayne
American Soldier - Toby Keith

HOUR 2
America, the Beautiful - Gaither Vocal Band
We the People - Billy Ray Cyrus
8th of November - Big and Rich and Kris Kristofferson
Born Again American - Various
Only In America - Brooks and Dunn
American Boy - John Wayne
Some Gave All - Billy Ray Cyrus
Arlington - Trace Adkins
Bumper of My SUV - Chely Wright
Pledge of Allegiance - Red Skelton
In America - Charlie Daniels

This Sunday we were joined by local favorite “One Night Stand”, country quintet with a hot summer coming up! In fact, they were recently nominated by New Music Weekly as the New Country Artist of the Year, and will be headed out to Hollywood for the awards later on this year. Also have dates with Joe Diffie, Joe Nichols, and Montgomery Gentry coming up this summer. Details on all this at their website ONSband.net. They chose the playlist, featuring a bunch of artists they’ve performed with, as well as their originals. Here’s the list:

Alan Jackson - Good Time
One Night Stand - Fast Lane
Sugarland - Settlin’
Gary Allan - Nothing On But The Radio
Jason Aldean - Crazy Town
One Night Stand - One Black Glove
Dierks Bentley - Free and Easy (Down The Road I Go)
Emerson Drive - Moments
One Night Stand - Thank God for Country Music
Joe Nichols - Gimme That Girl
Joe Diffie - Prop Me Up Beside The Jukebox
Montgomery Gentry - Something To Be Proud Of
One Night Stand - That’s My Baby

P.S. - I will be away from Music & Stuff for the next couple weeks. Annie Foxx will make her hosting debut this Sunday, and JD will return to host the Father’s Day special the following week! I’ll return with a bluegrass show coming up June 27th, followed by our patriotic 4th of July show the following week!

It’s our annual Memorial Day show as we play the songs that pay tribute to what this holiday is really about.  Thanks for your calls and requests.  As always, there’s just too many songs, and not enough time, even with letting the music do the talking.  Here’s the list:

HOUR 1
Billy Ray Cyrus - Some Gave All
Statler Brothers - More Than A Name On The Wall
Merle Haggard - Fightin Side Of Me
Trace Adkins - Arlington
Dolly Parton - Welcome Home
John Wayne - American Boy
Johnny Horton - Battle of New Orleans
Dixie Chicks - Travelin Soldier
Ernest Tubb - Soldier’s Last Letter
Dean Brody - Brothers
Tommy Cash - 6 White Horses
Jimmy Dean - PT 109
Jimmie Osborne - God, Please Protect America

HOUR 2
George Jones - 50000 Names on the Wall
Loretta Lynn - Dear Uncle Sam
Tracy Lawrence - If I Don’t Make It Back
Sgt Barry Sadler - Ballad of the Green Berets
Toby Keith - American Soldier
Johnny Horton - Johnny Reb
Johnny Cash - Ragged Old Flag
John Michael Montgomery - Letters From Home
Gene Autry - At Mail Call Today
SheDaisy - Come Home Soon
Kate Smith - God Bless America
Red Skelton - The Pledge of Allegiance
Lee Greenwood - God Bless the USA