Classic Country Corner

Eric the Driftless Cowboy
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Classic Country Corner is a radio show that airs every Saturday Morning at 8 on 98.7 WVMO, a 100 watt community radio station in Monona, Wisconsin. The show is a mix of vinyl and digital music. Dollar bins, estate sales, and thrift stores are the bedrock of the show’s musical library. Our Motto On Classic Country Corner, we play Classic Country Music from the likes of Waylon, Willie, Johnny, Dolly, Tammy, and Merle. Plus some one-hit wonders and songs that should’ve been hits. classiccountrycorner.substack.com

  1. 15 HR AGO

    Drinkin' In The Morning and We Remember David Allan Coe

    We lost a legend this week.David Allan Coe passed away on Wednesday at the age of 86. Coe was considered one of the pioneers of the Outlaw Country Movement and writer of many songs that went on to be hits for other artists. He put out some controversial content in the 70’s but we are going to focus on the stuff we can play at 8 o’clock in the morning. DRINKING SONGS Johnny Russell Rednecks, White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer Gary Stewart Backsliders Wine Willie Nelson I Gotta Get Drunk Webb Pierce I’m Gonna Hang One On Tonight Faron Young Wine Me Up SOMEBODY ELSE’S SONG Dottie West Heartaches By The Number (made famous by Ray Price) Ray Price I Fall To Pieces (made popular by Patsy Cline) Charley Pride Help Me Make It Through The Night (Made Famous by Sammi Smith) JUST FOR FUN Dave Dudley The Talk of the Town Lynn Anderson Two Rolls of Scotch Tape DAVID ALLAN COE LongHaired Red Neck Tennessee Whiskey Willie, Waylon and Me Tanya Tucker Would You Lay With Me In A Field of Stone Johnny Paycheck Take This Job and Shove It You Never Called Me By My Name 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

    54 min

  2. 1 DAY AGO

    Country Disco

    There is a quote attributed to Pablo Picasso that says something to the effect of “Good artists copy, Great artists steal”. Which upon further investigation, is probably based on a T.S. Elliot quote. That’s a long way to get to this morning's theme. In early March, friend of the show Nate Gibson, host of Back to the Country on WORT, played 3 hours of Country Disco on his show and provided some history of the melting of Country and Disco genres in the late 70’s including playing some songs deriding the genre entirely. We do not have three hours but we are going to do our best. The internet defines country disco as a musical fusion genre that emerged in the late 1970s. It blended the traditional instrumentation of country music—such as pedal steel guitars, fiddles, and vocal twang—with the driving, four-on-the-floor rhythms, synthesized basslines, and lush string or horn arrangements characteristic of disco. HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED Country Disc Bob Newkirk When I Stop Leaving (I’ll Be Gone) Charley Pride Get It Up Ronnie Milsap Country Disco Lee “Shot” Williams Baby I’m Burnin’ Dolly Parton Friend, Lover, Wife Johnny Paycheck I Can’t Wait Any Longer Bill Anderson I Ain’t Got No Business Doin’ Business Today George Jones Oh Honey - Oh Babe Loretta Lynn, Conway Twitty Ring of Fire Carlene Carter Kaw-Liga Hank Williams, Jr. Folsom Prison Blues Jerry Lee Lewis I Just Want To Be Your Everything Connie Smith I Will Survive Billie Jo Spears 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

    58 min

  3. 12 APR

    Bob Dylan

    The theme of this week’s show comes from what I’m calling my “Baby Boomer Spring Break” trip. Last week, I drove down to Tulsa, Oklahoma, and spent a couple of days at the Bob Dylan Center and the Woody Guthrie Center. They had so many great artifacts and little documentaries. It is truly amazing to see the breadth of work that man created, especially when you look at the ‘63 to ‘68 era. The rest of my time was spent driving parts of Route 66, hunting for roadside attractions, and listening to Jack Kerouac. (Jack Kerouac definitely stopped at Buc-ee’s, right?) Anyway, one of the things they brought up at the Bob Dylan Center was just how many people covered Dylan’s songs, especially in those early days. It almost reached a point where he was getting upset that other people were having hits with his songs and he wasn’t. (The Byrds had most of their hits with Dylan songs) So, that brings us to this week’s theme: the entire show is going to be dedicated to Bob Dylan covers.HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright Waylon Jennings Rainy Day Women #12 & #35 Flatt & Scruggs Wanted Man George Thorogood & The Destroyers You Ain’t Going Nowhere Nitty Gritty Dirt Band If Not For You Glen Campbell Tangled up in Blue The Charlie Daniels Band When I Paint My Masterpiece Emmylou Harris Walkin’ Down The Line Ricky Nelson Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You Tina Turner The Man in Me Lonnie Mack Maggie’s Farm Lester Flatt It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue The Country Gentlemen She Belongs To Me Ricky Nelson and The Stone Canyon Band One Too Many Mornings The Highwaymen It Ain’t Me Babe Johnny Cash REMINDER that next week is Vinylthon at WVMO and Classic Country Corner moves two hours ahead to 6am- 8am. From 6-7 a.m. CLASSIC COUNTRY CORNER GOES TO THE MOVIES! - We will be playing selections from the Soundtracks like True Grit, Nashville, The Electric Horseman and many more! Then from 7-8 a.m. CLASSIC COUNTRY CORNER IS FEELIN' SINGLE - this will be an hour of 45 records. 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

    55 min

  4. 29 MAR

    Songs of Springtime

    When It’s Springtime in Alaska (It’s Forty Below) Johnny Horton When It’s Springtime In The Rockies Gene Autry Blossoms In The Springtime Hank Snow Seasons Of My Heart George Jones Spring Fever Loretta Lynn Seasons Come, Seasons Go Bobbie Gentry Summer, Winter, Spring And Fall Glen Campbell Roses in the Snow Emmylou Harris Spring Tanya Tucker First Rose of Spring Willie Nelson The First Whippoorwill Bill Monroe Springtime In Heaven Don Reno, Red Smiley Season Suite: Spring John Denver You’re as Welcome as the Flowers in May Hank Snow Springtime Ian Tyson Don’t Let The Sunshine Fool Ya’ Townes Van Zandt 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

    54 min

  5. 22 MAR

    Keep On Truckin'

    This week we have 14 great truckin’ hits. Songs about the open road, police slowing you down,loneliness and how a CB radio can save the day. HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED Merle Haggard Movin’ On Dick Curless Long Lonesome Highway Red Simpson I’m A Truck CW McCall Wolf Creek Pass Dave Dudley Six Days On The Road CW McCall Convoy Red Sovine Phantom 309 Freddie Hart New York Joe and Redneck Tennessee Del Reeves Looking at the World Through a WIndshield Dick Curless Drag Em Off The Interstate Sock It To Em Blues Cletus Maggard and the Citizen Band The White Knight Brush Arbor Trucker and The UFO Dave Dudley Me and Ole CBRed Simpson Diesel Smoke + Dangerous Curves Stop by Classic Country Corner Saturday Morning at 8 only on 98.7 WVMO or online at WVMO.FM. or through the TuneIn or Radio Garden app on your phone. 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

    53 min

  6. 15 MAR

    Sweet Suite Sweete

    ANOTHER ALL VINTAGE, ALL ANALOG, ALL VINYL SHOW! We are on our 3rd week of Dollar Bin Discoveries and Recent Acquisitions. HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED MORNING SONGS Bobbie Gentry Morning Glory Charley Pride Sunshiny Day Ernest Tubb and Loretta Lynn One To Ten Bartender I’m Biting My Fingernails and Thinking of You DISJOINTED DOUBLE PLAY Dottie West You Ain’t Woman Enough Lynn Anderson Promises Promises Dottie West Pick Me Up On Your Way Down Lynn Anderson No Other Time Dave Dudley Yonder Comes A Sucker Hank Snow I’m Moving On Jim Reeves He’ll Have To Go Don Gibson Oh Lonesome Me Porter Wagoner Y’all Come Eddy Arnold Cattle CallJack & Misty Tennessee Bird Walk This song was #1 on the Country Charts for 2 weeks in 1970!! Stop by Classic Country Corner Saturday Morning at 8 only on 98.7 WVMO or online at WVMO.FM. or through the TuneIn or Radio Garden app on your phone. 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

    52 min

  7. 7 MAR

    Another Day, Another Dollar Bin Discovery

    HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED FARON YOUNG -COUNTRY GIRL KENNY ROGERS - LUCILLE BOB LUMAN - LONELY WOMEN MAKE GOOD LOVERS BOBBY LEWIS - HELLO MARY LOU CLAUDE KING - TIGER WOMAN CHARLIE WALKER - DON’T SQUEEZE MY SHARMON JIMMY SKINNER - I FOUND MY GIRL IN THE USA DONNA FARGO - THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WHOLE USA GEORGE HAMILTON IV - ABELINE SPUR - DON’T EVER TRUST A WOMAN MARTY ROBBINS - DEVIL WOMAN FARON YOUNG - SWEET DREAMS THE COMPTON BROTHERS - CLAUDETTE BUCK OWENS- SWEET ROSIE JONES JOHNNY DARRELL - RUBY, DON’T TAKE YOUR LOVE TO TOWN JEANIE C. RILEY - THE PRICE I PAY TO STAY GEORGE JONES - THE KING IS GONE AND SO ARE YOU Stop by Classic Country Corner Saturday Morning at 8 only on 98.7 WVMO or online at WVMO.FM. 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

    55 min

  8. 28 FEB

    Dollar Bin Discoveries and Recent Acquisitions

    a very special all digital, all compact discs show HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED SOME GREATEST HITS Kenny Rogers “That Crazy Feeling” Kenny Rogers & The First Edition “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Is In)” Kenny Rogers “Reuben James” Tanya Tucker “My Arms Stay Open All Night” Tanya Tucker “If It Don’t Come Easy” THE SONGS OF GEORGE JONES PERFORMED BY GEORGE JONES AND MERLE HAGGARD George Jones “A Picture of Me (Without You)” George Jones “What My Woman Can’t Do” George Jones “The Grand Tour (Single Version)” Merle Haggard “She Thinks I Still Care” Merle Haggard “The Window Up Above” NEW CLASSIC COUNTRY FROM THE LAST 30 YEARS Dwight Yoakam “Turn It On, Turn It Up, Turn Me Loose” Dwight Yoakam “I’ll Go Back to Her” Dwight Yoakam “It Only Hurts When I Cry” Lyle Lovett “San Antonio Girl” Lyle Lovett “On Saturday Night” What is Classic Country Corner? Classic Country Corner is a radio show that airs every Saturday Morning at 8 on 98.7 WVMO, a 100 watt community radio station in Monona, Wisconsin. The show is a mix of vinyl and digital music. Dollar bins, estate sales and thrift stores are the bedrock of the show’s musical library. Our Motto On Classic Country Corner, we play Classic Country Music from the likes of Waylon, Willie, Johnny, Dolly, Tammy, and Merle. Plus some one-hit wonders and songs that should’ve been hits. 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

    55 min
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Classic Country Corner is a radio show that airs every Saturday Morning at 8 on 98.7 WVMO, a 100 watt community radio station in Monona, Wisconsin. The show is a mix of vinyl and digital music. Dollar bins, estate sales, and thrift stores are the bedrock of the show’s musical library. Our Motto On Classic Country Corner, we play Classic Country Music from the likes of Waylon, Willie, Johnny, Dolly, Tammy, and Merle. Plus some one-hit wonders and songs that should’ve been hits. classiccountrycorner.substack.com

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  • Creator
    Eric the Driftless Cowboy
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    85
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Eric Schuck
  • Show Website
    Classic Country Corner