10 Days Without Country Music
It was completely unintentional. It's not like I went into rehab to kick my country-music habit. What I did was go away for 10 days and didn't hear any country music. Not one single solitary song. No fiddle. No banjo. No stories about drinkin' and cheatin' and fishin'. It never occurred to me how hard the withdrawal symptoms would be.
When we arrived in California (alive and well despite my fears), I realized I'd forgotten my iPod. Surely there would be some good country stations out there, I thought. But since our rental car had two major drawbacks -- no DVD player and no third-row seat -- that meant all three of my kids were about four inches from my head with their own portable DVD player blaring. That was the one thing that kept them quiet on our excellent adventure driving up the Pacific Coast Highway. So, no country radio.
Still, I assumed the beach towns we visited would be filled with a little Kenny Chesney or some other tropical-leaning country. By the time we got to San Francisco, I saw a man busking with a violin and I thought I'd finally hear some good, down-home stuff. But he had different stuff in mind, like the entire soundtrack from Phantom of the Opera. Nice, but not when you're craving Keith Urban, Sara Evans and Jason Aldean.
The minute we got home yesterday, I turned on our local country radio station. Trace Adkins, Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood and Jack Ingram coursed through my veins and instantly cured me of my symptoms and put me back into a state of country euphoria. That certainly must qualify me as an official addict. I'm totally OK with that. Of all the things to get hooked on these days, country music's probably the healthiest one.
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John McNary says:
Dude, you need satellite radio.
Also, KHAY 100.7 in Ventura and KKGO 105.1 both cover most of PCH from Santa Barbara to El Lay.
Central coast: K-JUG 98.1 in S-L-O (San Luis Obispo).
And the ever-popular country/americana stylings of world-famous KPIG cover PCH at 107.5 from Carmel to Santa Cruz, and at 94.9 in San Luis Obispo County.
Cowboy says:
What you need is listening to some real country.
You´d better go to Texas.
CaliCowgirl says:
Awww that sucks cuz we live in the Central Coast of California & there are more country stations here than any other stations! I live in Santa Maria which is by the beach but we are total hicks here! I love it! You get the best of both worlds…beach, cities & mountians & country. Sad you didn’t get to see it or hear it. But yeah Cali is not just a bunch of city slickers everyone thinks it is.
stephanie13 says:
yea i agree with cowboy :]
i live in Dallas TX
99.5 The Wolf
and
96.7 the Twister are good country stations :]
jenny14 says:
yeah i guess i have to agree with stephanie i really like to listen to 99.5 The Wolf also and The Twister is the best country music station out there. i don’t live very from from you, i live in Shereman,TX.
saidee says:
HEY Carry i love your songs,gess what u have heard of Larry the Cable Guy well the song that u sing Jessause take the wheel,he said that his grandmal was listing to that song when she was driving home one nigh and she crashed her car and then after that he sa that jessause was not looking her and he is soooo fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jessica Tomblin says:
hey carrie i loveed you b4 you did that to your fans in huntington WV not that i still don`t love love love you but that was rood bc my cuz ashley made you a scrapbook and all she wanted you to do is just to sign it bc her email address is carriefreak109@hotmail.com and she tells me bout you all the time and you just took off in your tour bus and you couldn`t just spend 2 hours w/ your fans butttt….. im still one of you biggest fans iiiiiiiiiiii lllllllllllllllllllllllooooooooooooovvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeeeeee you so much
Jessica Tomblin says:
hey carrie i loveloveloveloveloovellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooovvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee you so so much but i can`t believe yoiu did that to my cuzin in huntington WV tell them that you would be out in 1 minuite and then you leave in your tour bus butttttt i still love you and my cousin loved you too b4 you did that to her how do i kno bc her walls was filled w/ your pics no spaces left between and she made a scrapbook about you and all she wanted you to do is sign it