Tammy Nevels is one of our radio sponsors who has been with us from the beginning.  Tammy takes appointments in Somerset at
Perfect Performance on Monday and Tuesday.
  Call 679-8000 for appointment.  She's also in Whitley City Wednesday-Friday.  That number is 376-4247 

Burgess Drug Store is another charter sponsor of
Country Turnpike. 
Longetivity  is nothing
new to Burgess Drug
Store, they've been in
business in McCreary
Coounty since 1940.
They're in the
South Fork Center,
so when you're there experienceing their
friendly and knowledgable service, tell them
you've heard about
 them on the Country
Turnpike Radio Show.
  

WAYMORE'S OUTLAWS


Former members of Waylon Jennings' road band have formed a tribute band called Waymore's Outlaws.
The players are  singer Tommy Townsend, Bass player and tour manager Jerry 'Jigger'
Bridges, drummer Richie Albright, Fred Newell on steel guitar, and Eugene Moles, guitar.
The band has the blessing of Jessi Colter according to Bridges.
Waymore's Outlaws will perform their first show  at a July 4th celebration in Franklin Tennessee.
Bridges, along with Tommy Townsend and Fred Newell will perform Saturday at the Coal Miners Jamboree in Stearns.




TRITT/STUART TO TOUR

Travis Tritt and Marty Stuart will tour together this fall.
The two friends recorded and toured together in the 90's, hitting the charts and winning awards with "The Whiskey Ain't Working Anymore, This One's Gonna Hurt You(For A Long Long Time) and Honky Tonkin's What I Do Best."
Eight dates have been scheduled so far  November 1-21, with more to be added in the coming months. 



PAISLEY NABS SHERIFF TAYLOR

Brad Paisley's video of his latest single "Waitin' On A Woman" will feature Andy Griffith.  Griffith won't be Sheriff Taylor, but Paisley says that he's the perfect person that embodies the wisdom, years and personality needed for the story.
The Video will be released later this month.



HANK WILLIAMS RADIO SHOWS COMING




After years of legal wrangling, Hank Williams Jr. and Jett Williams are working with TimeLife to bring recordings of their father's radio show to the public.
There are some 143 recordings of Hank Williams' morning show, sponsored by Mother's Best flour mill and broadcast on WSM in 1951.
Williams Sr. was at his commercial peak at the time, and the music has gone unheard by the public for 57 years.
The recordings were made on discs and were nearly thrown away during a housecleaning at the station.  An employee rescued them, and got them to Hank Jr. They then became the subject of an 8 year court battle.
The recordings include numerous songs that Hank Sr. never recorded, and at least 40 that he was not known to have performed outside the radio show.  Among them are his version of Moon Mullican's hit "Cherokee Boogie," and the Fred Rose penned classic "Blue Eyes Crying In the Rain."
The shows will be released over a three-year period.  No release date has been announced for the first volume.


KITTY WELLS TO GET HALL OF FAME EXHIBIT

An exhibit honoring Kitty Wells, Country Music's first female superstar, will open at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in August.
Her 1952 recording of "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" sold more than 800 thousand  copies and spent six weeks at the top of Billboard's  country singles chart.
Wells success dispelled the myth that female aritsts could not sell records and helped to create opportunities for the long line of female superstars who followed.
Kitty Wells, who will be 89 on August 30, was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1976.
Wells's debut song has also been added to the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress to recognize recordings that are "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant."
At the same time "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels," was announced, Roy Orbison's "Oh, Pretty Woman" was also added to the Registry.