Texas Monthly: How a Small Hill Country Town Became a Hub for Traditional Country Music

This is a good article about little Brady, Texas and KNEL 95.3 has become known around the country and even overseas for their "Hillbilly Hits" program and promoting traditional concerts. Some of the old acts have even moved to the town. LINK

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Sturdy and youthful-looking, clad in shorts and a T-shirt, the 49-year-old deejay has overseen the program every week since 1989. The show he started as a teenager more than thirty years ago continues to be a world away from the sounds whirring on contemporary country radio: it focuses exclusively on playing listener requests for traditional country songs by the likes of George Jones, Patsy Cline, and Bob Wills. For the show, Pitcox frequently digs into his massive catalog of 3,000 CDs, several thousand 45 rpm records and MP3s, and more than 10,000 vinyl records to “find more obscure stuff,” he says. “Maybe something they’ve never heard before.”

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I wrote the station to confirm how to listen, and they gave me this info:

"Hillbilly Hits" airs live on Thursday nights from 6-10 pm, with a replay of the Thursday night program on Saturday night from 6-10pm.

The program is streamed through the Station website – knelradio.com. It is also available through the Tune-In app and is streamed though Alexa as KNEL-FM.