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. APR 12

    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

  2. MAR 29

    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

  3. MAR 22

    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

  4. MAR 15

    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

  5. MAR 7

    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

  6. FEB 28

    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

  7. FEB 22

    Black Women Sing The Hell Out of Classic Country

    HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED I’m Movin’ On Tina Turner -made famous by Hank Snow Don’t Talk Now Tina Turner -written by James Taylor Stand by Your Man Candi Staton (Made famous by Tammy Wynette) Almost Persuaded Etta James (David Houston’s “Almost Persuaded” spent nine weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart starting in August 1966) Hello Walls Esther Phillips (Faron Young Hit written by Willie Nelson) Cold Heart Big Maybelle (Written by Hank Williams) Bad Case of the Blues Linda Martell (First Black woman to sing at the Grand Ole Opry) Don’t You Ever Get Tired (Of Hurting Me) Bettye Swann (Written by Hank Cochran and a hit for Ray Price in 1965) Night Life Aretha Franklin (Written by Willie Nelson and a hit for Ray Price) You Can’t Lie to a Liar Ketty Lester (from her first album in 1962- Ketty went on to release 5 more records in the 60s but you may know her as Hester-Sue Terhune on Little House on the Prairie ) Fairytale The Pointer Sisters -“Fairytale” went on to win the Pointer Sisters the Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group for the year 1974, marking the first awarding of a Grammy to an all-female vocal group and making the Pointer Sisters the only black women to win a Grammy in a country music category until Beyoncé took home the Grammy Award for Best Country Album in 2025. Jolene Candi Staton (Written by Dolly Parton) You Can Have Him Jolene Chapel Hart (an answer song ) All My Heroes Played Guitars Petrella (name checks a ton of c+ w artists) You Must Think My Heart Has Swinging Doors Vicki Vann Direct inspiration for this show was from DJ Action Slacks and the Respected Lady Land Radio Show Respected Lady Land 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

    55 min

  8. FEB 15

    Valentine's Day Show

    HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED My Heart Skips a Beat Buck Owens Heartaches And Hangovers - George Jones Why Don’t You Love Me - Hank Williams MORNING SONGS Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’ Charley Pride I’ll Be Here in the Morning Townes Van Zandt GEN X DOUBLE PLAY (AND ONE OTHER SONG) Love’s Where Life Begins Arthur Alexander Step By Step Eddie Rabbitt Love Will Turn You Around Kenny Rogers The Hinges on the Door Connie Smith She’s Gone, Gone, Gone Lefty Frizzell IT’S KIND OF ON YOU FOR FALLING IN LOVE WITH ME Heard It in a Love Song The Marshall Tucker Band (That’s What You Get) For Lovin’ Me Waylon Jennings Pretend I Never Happened Willie Nelson Someone To Give My Love To Johnny Paycheck That’s The Way Love Goes Johnny Rodriguez Love is Strange Buck Owens, Susan Raye …AND HOW COULD WE NOT PLAY I Will Always Love You (Live on the Grand Ole Opry, May 19th, 2007) Dolly Parton, Patty Loveless, Marty Stuart 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
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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
    83
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Eric Schuck
  • Show Website
    Classic Country Corner