WART 95.5 FM, Marshall (online streaming available).WSGH 1040 AM, Lewisville (online streaming available).WETS 89.5 FM, Johnson City, Tennessee (online streaming available).WBRF 98.1 FM, Galax, Virginia (online streaming available).
(also 88.5 FM Murphy, 89.7 FM Waynesville, 90.5 FM Brevard, 91.3 FM Franklin, 91.5 FM Dillsboro, 94.7 Bryson City, 95.3 FM Cherokee, 101.7 FM Highlands, and 107.5 FM Black Mountain/Montreat)
There are many other stations that regularly feature mountain music.
WPAQ’s Merry-Go-Round, featuring great local talents, is the second-longest-running live music radio show in the United States, behind only the Grand Ole Opry. Musicians and music lovers coming up today have the same wealth of regional radio available to them-and in more formats, with the rise of streaming online broadcasts and downloadable podcasts of traditional music shows. Many musicians who grew up in the Blue Ridge learned their very first old-time songs as youngsters by listening to stations like Mount Airy’s WPAQ, or catching broadcasts of the Grand Ole Opry beamed from Nashville.
The long tradition of regional radio is one of the most important reasons for the continued popularity of traditional music here. In the Blue Ridge Mountains, the airwaves are alive with mountain music, as they have been for nearly a century.