Friends,

The Uncle Bunkin Country and Western Music Show is pleased to announce that on Thursday, September 30, 2010, at 10:00 a.m., the show will feature songs about the Mississippi River. These are some of the dreamiest and most melodic songs in all of Country and Western music, performed by great artists like Jimmie Rodgers, Charley Pride, and Hank Snow. Linda Ronstadt will sing Blue Bayou, and Frank Sinatra will sing Old Man River!

If we have a few minutes left over, we'll play a couple of old-time Gospel Songs.

Be sure to tune in Thursday morning!

So long,

Uncle Bunkin

Friends,

The Uncle Bunkin Country and Western Music Show for Thursday, September 23, 2010, at 10:00 a.m., will feature Truck Driving Songs. Yes, Friends, truck driving is a big part of country and western living. We'll be hearing some great truck driving performances, like C.W. McCall's "Convoy" and "Wolf Creek Pass," and George Morgan's "Man Behind the Wheel," and the beautiful song "Roll, Truck, Roll, by Red Simpson. Story songs will be featured, including "Giddyup Go" and "Teddy Bear" by Ferlin Husky. Mac Wiseman will perform the dreamy "18 Wheels a Humming."

If there's time left over, we'll play a couple of favorites by The Origninal Carter Family and the greatest yodeler of all, Slim Whitman. Be sure to listen in for this one!

So long, Uncle Bunkin

The Uncle Bunkin Country and Western Music Show for Thursday, September 16, 2010, at 10:00 a.m., features more of Uncle Bunkin's favorite songs and performances by the world's top Country and Western Music artists.

Every song or story in this mix of country and western music is the best of the best. This show of mega-favorites includes performances by Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams, Roy Acuff, Doc Watson, Ralph Stanley, Charley Pride, Willie Nelson, Mac Wiseman, George Strait, Slim Whitman, Tanya Tucker, Anne Murray, Donna Fargo, and many more!

Listen in, Friends!

So long,

Uncle Bunkin

The Uncle Bunkin Country and Western Music Show for Thursday, September 9, 2010, at 10:00 a.m., features Uncle Bunkin's favorite songs and performances by male artists, with a couple of duets thrown in.

Every song or story in this mix of country and western music is the best of the best. This show of mega-favorites includes performances by Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams, Eddy Arnold, Roy Acuff, Bill Monroe, Charley Pride, Chet Atkins, Gene Autry, Garth Brooks, and more!

A show this good should never end.

So long,

Uncle Bunkin

The Uncle Bunkin Country and Western Music Show for Thursday, September 2, 2010, at 10:00 a.m., features Uncle Bunkin's favorite songs and performances by female artists, with a couple of duets added in.

Every song or story in this mix of country and western music is the best of the best. This show of mega-favorites includes performances by Patsy Cline, Anne Murray, Lacy J. Dalton, Tanya Tucker, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton, Donna Fargo, Alison Krause, Melba Montgomery, and more.

A show this good should never end.

So long,

Uncle Bunkin

Friends,

The Uncle Bunkin Country and Western Music Show for Thursday, August 26, at 10:00 a.m., features two phenoms of Country Music: TANYA TUCKER and LEANN RIMES.

Tanya Tucker hit the big time at age 13 with her mega-hit "Delta Dawn" in 1972. LeAnn Rimes hit the big time at age 13 with her mega-hit "Blue" in 1996.

The Uncle Bunkin Show features two of LeAnn Rimes' hits, "Blue" and "Cattle Call," a duet with legend Eddy Arnold. Rimes won two Academy of Country Music Awards in 1996 and two Grammy Awards in 1997 for "Blue."

Friends,

Be sure to tune in Thursday morning, August 20, 2010, at 10:00 a.m. for the Uncle Bunkin Country and Western Music Show, featuring the free and haunting old-timey, often a capella, songs of Appalachian mountaineers, especially coal miners.

These rare songs chronicle the difficulties of a miner's life in the mountains. The usual difficulties are aggravated by the dangers of mining and the often violent betrayal of the miners by the coal companies they work for.

The difficulties of mining seemed to be lessened for a time when the United Mine Workers of America stood up for the miners and organized them into a powerful force finally bringing a measure of fairness in the miners' employment. But even the UMWA became corrupted by its own power and failed to represent the miners as it once had. The miners organized again at the grassroots level and, after another long and bloody struggle, brought reform to the UMWA.

These Appalachian songs and the miners' plight will find a response in your souls, Country and Western Music Friends! Listen in.

So long,

Dear Country and Western Music Friends,

This is Uncle Bunkin inviting you to tune in Thursday, August 12, 2010, at 10:00 a.m., for the Uncle Bunkin Country and Western Music Show, featuring Railroad Train songs and music.

We'll be playing instrumentals like Bill Monroe's Orange Blossom Special, gospels like the Original Carter Family's Little Black Train, lonely and blue songs like Jimmie Rodgers' Waiting for a Train, happy songs like Jimmie Rodgers' The Brakeman Blues, specific train songs like Willie Nelson's City of New Orleans, story songs like Jimmie Rodgers' autobiographical classic Jimmie the Kid, and more!

Plus we hope to have live messages from time to time during the course of the show from the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad Corporation.

So long,

Uncle Bunkin

Friends,

We've had a special request from one of our special friends out in Outer Fairfield, who has requested we feature Roy Acuff.

Uncle Bunkin is pleased to announce that, on Thursday, August 5, 2010, at 10:00 a.m., the Uncle Bunkin Country and Western Music Show will feature Roy Acuff, one of the Grand Ole Opry's premier performers and hosts for many, many years.

Roy Acuff's repertoire includes train songs, gospel songs, and country love songs. Everything is simple and straightforward, easy to listen to and enjoyable to hear, with one exception. So, be sure to tune in for tunes like The Wabash Cannonball, Night Train to Memphis, When I Lay My Burden Down, The Heart That Was Broken for Me, Wonder Is All I Do, and The Precious Jewel.

The one exception? Can anyone tell Uncle Bunkin what the song "The Great Speckled Bird" is all about? It's not exactly simple and straightforward! Uncle Bunkin used to think the song was about the supremacy of the Bible and Jeremiah 12:9. But really, what on earth is this song about?

DOLLY PARTON

Uncle Bunkin is pleased to announce that this Thursday, July 29, 2010, at 10:00 a.m., the Uncle Bunkin Country and Western Music Show will feature one of the all-time great singer-songwriters of our era, Dolly Parton.

Dolly Parton is a singer-songwriter, author, instrumentalist, actress, philanthropist, and one of the most successful business entrepreneurs in America. She has recorded at least twenty-five number-one country singles, and has recorded forty-one top-ten country albums.

We'll be playing some of her greatest hits, including "I Will Always Love You," "Jolene," "9 to 5," "Islands in the Stream," "To Know Him Is to Love Him," the gospel song "Wings of a Dove," and a heartwarming, playful performance by Dolly and Chet Atkins of "Do I Ever Cross Your Mind." Plus many more!

So long,

Uncle Bunkin