Both Kinds of Music

Country for City Folk with musical ephemera from Country Legends, Seasoned Pros and Fresh Upstarts.

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Good night and good luck.

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Get your fix of new country tunes by independent/alternative artists.

Tonk of the Town: Spotify, YouTube, Apple, Tidal, Amazon, Qobuz

Archive of past playlists: Spotify, YouTube, Apple, Tidal, Amazon, Qobuz

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I take all the music I play on my radio shows and put them in the Tonk of the Town playlist. There's also an archive playlist that holds all the previous playlists. It's on all the streaming platforms:

Tonk of the Town: Spotify, YouTube, Apple, Tidal, Amazon, Qobuz

Archive of past playlists: Spotify, YouTube, Apple, Tidal, Amazon, Qobuz

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The Both Kinds of Music Show is nominated as Best Radio Show in Austin, TX.

If you have a minute go vote in the Austin Chronicle’s poll under Music Industry and give for KOOP radio one while you’re at it.

Vote.austinchronicle.com

Thanks!

The 2025/2026 Austin Music Poll Ballot

Vote for your favorite bands, venues, and more through January 19th!

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Gillian Welch & David Rawlings

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Just kids.

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UPDATED! The Tonk of the Town and the archives have been updated. Music slows down this time of year so this is two weeks of stuff, plus digging back into the folder of things I missed or never got to. With all the year-end times coming up, this might be the last update until January. Nevertheless, there’s 50 quality tracks in here to keep you going until I post the year in review.

Tonk of the Town: Spotify, Tidal, Apple Music, YouTube, Amazon, Qobuz

Tonk of the Town Archives: Spotify, Tidal, Apple Music, YouTube, Amazon, Qobuz

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Music I play on my shows on KOOP Radio in Austin, TX.

Tonk of the Town: Spotify, Tidal, Apple Music, YouTube, Amazon

Tonk of the Town Archives: Spotify, Tidal, Apple Music, YouTube, Amazon

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Madison, WI. Long gone, but while it seemed antiquated in the mid 90s, it’d probably do well enough these days. Then again, it was pretttttttty dumpy.

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After an extended hiatus, the weekly playlist is back. If you’re new here, I find new and recent indie country releases on Fridays, throw them in a playlist, listen to it over the weekend, edit accordingly and publish it for you to hear, share and enjoy.

It always starts off with something classic, as a nod to where we’ve been and ends with a track by Willie Nelson because I could probably make these for week in, week out for 20 years and never run out of songs. 

While January is typically a slow month, it’s off to a pretty good start. About 2/3 was released in the last 30 days, which is all up front, and the last 1/3 is from Oct/Nov, when I last published a list. I’ve got couple irons in the fire right now regarding getting back on the air, but nothing completely baked yet. In the meantime, give this a listen and let me know what you like.

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Huge week for new releases. After kicking it off with Sammi Smith (because why let Tyler get ALL the spotlight), the next 22 songs are either singles or tracks from new albums. Hat tip to Paige Plaisance for Song of the Week, with plenty of good stuff to follow

Of course, we have to pour one out for Charlie Robison who left us way too soon. The man could tell a story, that’s for dang sure.

Filling the rest of the show out with recent releases and ending with a Willie track from the upcoming bluegrass album. Pure coincidence that I ended the show with the original version last week.

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Lester & Marty

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Banger of a playlist this week.

Kicking it off with a classic from Connie Smith. 

Eight brand new releases including Nightingale Rodeo, Tony Hannah, Lindsay Lou, Willi Carlisle and more. 

In honor of Labor Day, a handful of protest songs. 

Plus, lots of recent releases. 

A bunch of artists making their playlist debut. 

Also on YouTube

Enjoy!

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Is this thing on? Been a lonnnnnng while, but I want to test the waters to see if there's an audience for country music on Tumblr 2023.

I've been making a weekly playlist in lieu of a radio show for a couple months now. Figure that'd be a good place to start.

If you like country music that's outside the mainstream, check out this playlist. It's full of new and recent releases. I kick it off with a classic country song and send it off with Willie Nelson. In between you'll find music from artists making country music in their own way with their own style. While the music changes every week, the playlist stays in the same spot. Plus, there's an archive where I retire the old playlists.

If you find something you like, let me know and give the artists a follow on instagram.

Track list:

Ray Charles - Georgia on My Mind

The Waymores - Greener Pastures

Christopher Seymore, South Texas Tweek - I Can Get off on You

Amanda Donald - Get in Line

Marty Bush - Turn Down the Lights

Nora Kelly Band - Rodeo Clown

David Quinn - Down Home

Zach Bryan, Sierra Ferrell - Holy Roller

Turnpike Troubadours - A Cat in the Rain

Sarah Jane Scouten - Wanderlust

Nick Shoulders - All Bad

The Two Tracks - In the Morning

Jim Lauderdale, The Po' Ramblin' Boys, Del McCoury - Long And Lonesome Letting Go

Sentimental Family Band - Never Love Again

Willy Tea Taylor, The Fellership - National Treasure

David Garnham and the Reasons to Live, Gleny Rae Virus - Long Way Round

Nathan Mongol Wells - Honest Drinking

Lola Kirke, First Aid Kit - All My Exes Live in L.A.

Abbigale Dawn - Ex Boyfriend Blues

Christian Parker, Earl Poole Ball, JayDee Maness - You Ain't Going Nowhere

Miss Georgia Peach - Silver Threads and Gold Needles

Vince Gill, Paul Franklin - Walkin' Show and Thinkin' About Her

Madeline Hawthorne - Neon Wasteland

The Howdies - Buddies

Katie Mae & the Lubrication - Hard Livin'

The Deslondes, Sam Doores - Howl at the Moon

Brit Taylor - If You Don't Wanna Love Me

Izaak Opatz - Shampoo

Ruby Oland - Life Without Love

Lucas Hudgins - All in My Head

S.G. Goodman - Space And Time

Woody Woodworth & The Piners - When Them Dogwoods Bloom

Zara Alexandra - Greasy Spoon

Televisionaries, Les Greene - Airbound

Megg Farrell - Damaged Goods

Willie Nelson - I Never Cared for You

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The Ameripolitan Awards recognizes performers in the honky tonk, western swing and rockabilly genres. Each year they have a nomination process leading up to an award show in Memphis. I've been nominated in the DJ category for my shows Both Kinds of Music and the Country Bunker. If you have a minute, vote for me, Don Sticksel. Last day to cast a ballot is today, Dec 31.

Ballot Blaster

Much obliged.

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When your own post shows up in your feed ~7 years later.

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Whenever someone starts talking to me about music that isn’t country.

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I mentioned this a week or so ago, but as a reminder... Me and some radio pals made an aftershow to go with Ken Burns Country Music series. It’s called Holding Things Together and it’s available on all the podcast platforms. (Apple, Spotify, Stitcher) Additionally, Gimme Country is running a marathon of shows 1-4 on Sunday leading into our 5th episode. If you want to know more about what you’ve seen so far or just LOVE country music, give us a shot.