BLUEGRASS & THE BO-MANSM
ANNOUNCEMENT:
If you hadn't heard, I did my last live Sunday show on WSIP 98.9 FM on Sunday, September 11, 2009. It's a decision I made that has been coming the past few years. The drive is about a 160 mile round trip and leaving at 6pm on Sunday and getting home at 1:45am Monday was really getting to me. I LOVED THE SHOW AND THE LISTENERS! I will miss the hundreds of phone calls each month. I will get more time with my family and may even see my first Sunday night football game on TV and first Super Bowl in nearly 20 years!! Thank you to WSIP, the artists, record companies and most of all the listeners!!
Bo McCarty
9/14/2009
WSIP 98.9 FM is in Paintsville, Kentucky. This is in the heart of Stanley
Country, so what more could a bluegrass DJ ask for? Life is good!
WSIP on the dial is located at 98.9 FM. The FM side is 100,000 watts and that equals a HOSS!
I can't say THANK YOU enough to the owners and staff at WSIP for the opportunity to do a weekly show. I'm the luckiest person in the world to have this opportunity and as I say many a night, I love my job. Thanks folks!
WSIP format is New Country, but they do play classics and they have many other bluegrass programs. WSIP is very involved with the community with a lot of sports coverage and even local news! Sunday morning until 8pm religious programming is aired.
WSIP is a very community active station by broadcasting local news,
high school sports and
covering all the local events with an excellent staff of professionals.
My show is called BLUEGRASS & THE BO-MANSM for a great reason. The BLUEGRASS comes from the kinda music I play, and since I am THE BO-MANSM the name kinda fits perfectly.
BLUEGRASS & THE BO-MANSM airs from
8pm to 12am EST every Sunday night. I take tons of requests, I guess around 100+ calls come in every Sunday night. The calls
come in weekly from several states including: Kentucky, Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia. I have received calls
from listeners in Tennessee and North Carolina.
WSIP FM is a big dog and gets out and hunts! I play a lot of Stanley
Brothers music and that will include Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys, but I include nearly
all kinds of bluegrass music from the likes of the New Grass Revival to Lester & Earl. To you non-bluegrass
folks the just stumbled into my little hunk of cyber space Lester & Earl is Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs and the Foggy
Mountain Boys, not some slick New York City salad dressing.
By adding some heavy doses of all the contemporary bands from such as: IIIrd
Tyme Out, Lonesome River Band, Blue Highway and the Seldom Scene, you can say
the show kicks some major grass. On occasions some from the silly side of
bluegrass are tossed in the mix to keep the listening folks on their toes.
The one thing I must admit is that I'm not an announcer, but a guy with
a hugh CD collection
and I play them for my friends on Sundays by coming into their homes,
cars, etc. I don't try to teach the listeners anything but if they ain't careful
they just might learn something.
I love my job!