Tuesday, September 13, 2022

A Back to the Country Back to School Special 9/14/22

Howdy friends, tomorrow morning (9am-noon CST) I'll be back on the airwaves hosting a Back to the Country Back to School special on WORT 89.9 FM.

It's a new semester, the sun is shining, birds are chirping, I'm teaching a really fun course in the music school, I've got patches on my sleeves (thanks again, mom!), and good records surrounding me all the time.
This week I'll play three hours worth of back-to-school-themed classics about schools catching on fire (the Dixon Brothers), schools exploding (Elton Britt), busses of kids drowning (the Stanley Brothers, Ralph Bowman), truckers killing themselves to avoid school kids in the road (Red Sovine), federally mandated integrated bussing (Tadpole Creek Opinion, Earl Beecham, Tommy Riggs), inappropriate teacher-student relationships (Vickie Mitchell, Johnny Christopher, Tommy Millwood, Bonnie Guitar), high schools as prisons (Mojo Nixon), intense school bullies (Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette, Dale Hawkins), high school loners without friends (Reggie Perkins), teachers hitting kindergartners and leaving marks (Brenda Carter), teachers stabbing each other in the back (BJ Snowden), deceptive administrators (Arlie Duff), hypocritical PTAs (Margie Singleton), church being taken out of schools (the Louvin Brothers), the state of sex education in public schools (in the '60s) (the Hill Dillies), homophobic anti-college and anti-hippy rants (Ace Ball), communist professors (Leroy Van Dyke), unloved book worms (Ernest Tubb), and corporal punishment (Cliffie Stone), among other school-related topics.

Streaming via wortfm.org and available via 89.9 FM in southern Wisconsin.

And as always, the show is available for two weeks after broadcast by visiting archive.wortfm.org and looking for the 9/14 episode of Back to the Country.



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