WNIA Radio Show Archives

While at Niagara University, I hosted a radio show on WNIA Radio. Below, you’ll find archives of past shows I’ve done. If you’d like a digital copy of a selected show, feel free to email me at themusicaldivide@gmail.com. I unfortunately cannot upload the full shows here.

Underline = Requested songs

5/9/2025 - Here it is, the final radio show …

As such, I decided to go all out with a show that lasted from 9-2, with every hour devoted to a certain “category.” They are as follows:

Pre-show music

  • Turnpike Troubadours - “Wrecked”
  • Charlie Marie - “Rhinestones”
  • Troy Olsen - “Tumbleweed”

9-10 (Animal House - songs with animals in the titles!)

  • Corb Lund - “Hair In My Eyes Like A Highland Steer”
  • Blake Shelton - “Ol’ Red”
  • Reba McEntire - “Just Like Them Horses”
  • Tom T. Hall - “Old Dogs, Children, and Watermelon Wine”
  • Brad Paisley - “I’m Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin’ Song)”
  • Randy Rogers and Wade Bowen - “Lady Bug”
  • Maddie & Tae - “Shut Up And Fish”
  • Buck Owens - “Tiger By The Tail”
  • Turnpike Troubadours - “The Bird Hunters”
  • Willie Nelson - “A Horse Called Music”
  • Blackberry Smoke - “One Horse Town”
  • Dolly Parton - “Cracker Jack”
  • The Bottle Rockets - “Dog”
  • Courtney Patton - “What It’s Like To Fly Alone (Hawk Song)”
  • Mo Pitney - “Just A Dog”

Intermission: Brad Paisley - “Munster Rag”

10-11 (I’ve Been Everywhere - autobiographical and/or deeply personal and unique songs)

  • Loretta Lynn - “Coal Miner’s Daughter”
  • Aaron Watson - “Fence Post”
  • Holly Williams - “The Highway”
  • Alan Jackson - “The Older I Get”
  • Angaleena Presley - “American Middle Class”
  • Eric Church - “Sinners Like Me”
  • George Jones - “Choices”
  • Dolly Parton - “Coat Of Many Colors”
  • Hank Williams Jr. - “The Blues Man”
  • Hank Williams - “I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive”
  • Lydia Loveless - “Everything’s Gone”
  • Sturgill Simpson - “Life Ain’t Fair And The World Is Mean”
  • Kacey Musgraves - “Dime Store Cowgirl”
  • George Strait - “Troubadour”
  • Margo Price - “Hands Of Time”

Intermission: Brad Paisley and friends - “Clusterpluck”

11-12 (Songs About Songs … it kind of explains itself!)

  • Jamey Johnson - “That’s Why I Write Songs”
  • Jon Wolfe - “Singin’ Thing”
  • Miranda Lambert - “New Strings”
  • Gary Allan (w/ Willie Nelson) - “A Showman’s Life”
  • David Nail (feat. Lee Ann Womack) - “Songs For Sale”
  • Steve Earle - “Guitar Town”
  • Sara Evans - “Missing Missouri”
  • Dwight Yoakam - “Guitars, Cadillacs”
  • Whitey Morgan - “Good Timin’ Man”
  • Lacy J. Dalton - “16th Avenue”
  • John Anderson - “Nashville Tears”
  • Tim McGraw - “Nashville Without You”
  • Alan Jackson - “Job Description”
  • Willie Nelson - “On The Road Again”

Intermission: Marty Stuart - “Torpedo”

12-1 (Surprise! Basically, songs that have a twist ending!)

  • George Jones - “Radio Lover”
  • Randy Travis - “Three Wooden Crosses”
  • Miranda Lambert - “White Liar”
  • Craig Morgan - “The Ballad Of Mr. Jenkins”
  • Billy Currington - “People Are Crazy”
  • Loretta Lynn - “Van Lear Rose”
  • Porter Wagoner - “The Green Green Grass Of Home”
  • Reba McEntire - “The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia”
  • Carrie Underwood - “Two Black Cadillacs” (the two CU songs are actually requests for my mother!)
  • Brad Paisley - “You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive”
  • Steve Earle - “Copperhead Road”
  • Carrie Underwood - “Church Bells”
  • George Jones - “He Stopped Loving Her Today”

Intermission: Brad Paisley - “Time Warp”

1-2 (Anything But The Hits - country airplay singles that didn’t do as well as they should have!)

  • Emily West and Keith Urban - “Blue Sky”
  • Brandy Clark - “Stripes”
  • Brett Eldredge - “Raymond”
  • Ashley McBryde - “A Little Dive Bar In Dahlonega”
  • Dierks Bentley - “Draw Me A Map”
  • Wade Bowen - “Saturday Night”
  • Candi Carpenter - “Burn The Bed”
  • Randy Montana - “Ain’t Much Left Of Lovin’ You”
  • George Strait - “Drinkin’ Man”
  • The Wreckers - “Tennessee”
  • Terry Clark - “She Didn’t Have Time”
  • Jake Owen - “What We Ain’t Got”
  • Brad Paisley - “Last Time For Everything”

4/26/2019 - There was no show last week due to the studio being closed for Easter Break, but we’re back this week!

  • Jack Ingram - “Flutter”
  • Kelsey Waldon - “High In Heels”
  • Josh Turner - “Would You Go With Me”
  • Turnpike Troubadours - “Ringing In The Year”
  • Kathy Mattea - “Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses”
  • Brandy Clark - “Homecoming Queen”
  • Shotgun Rider - “Me and a Memory”
  • Dierks Bentley - “Bad Angel” (w/Miranda Lambert and Jamey Johnson)
  • Jade Bird - “Going Gone”
  • Tanya Tucker - “Shotgun”
  • Eric Church - “Where She Told Me To Go”
  • Ashley McBryde - “Southern Babylon”
  • Ashley Monroe - “Weed Instead Of Roses”
  • Corb Lund - “September”
  • Randy Travis and Joe Nichols - “Tonight, I’m Playin’ Possum”

4/12/2025 - If it wasn’t enough of a problem for our broadcasting computer to shut down, our secondary one did as well (and this wasn’t an easy replacement). Thanks to a very close friend of WNIA Radio, we are back online (again). I’m going to need a nap after this semester. Anyway, this program went for an hour and a half. Also, my friend, Joe, joined me for the show this week! Check out his show Mondays, 3-4 (EST) on wnia.niagara.edu! We both turned it into an outlaw country show until he had to leave and it was FUN.

  • Jason Isbell - “Alabama Pines”
  • Emmylou Harris - “Boulder To Birmingham”
  • Travis Tritt and Marty Stuart - “The Whiskey Ain’t Workin'”
  • Dwight Yoakam and Buck Owens - “Streets Of Bakersfield”
  • Earl Thomas Conley - “What I’d Say”
  • Trisha Yearwood - “XXX’s and OOO’s (An American Girl)”
  • Whiskey Myers - “Stone”
  • Steve Earle - “Devil’s Right Hand”
  • Gary Stewart - “She’s Acting Single (I’m Drinking Doubles)”
  • Lindi Ortega - “You Ain’t Foolin’ Me”
  • Johnny Paycheck - “Take This Job And Shove It”
  • Sturgill Simpson - “You Can Have The Crown”
  • Nikkie Lane - “Jackpot”
  • Toby Keith - “Weed With Willie”
  • Ray Wylie Hubbard - “Snake Farm”
  • Angaleena Presley - “Only Blood”
  • Lucy Hale & Joe Nichols - “Red Dress”
  • Suzy Bogguss - “Drive South”
  • Brad Paisley - “The Cigar Song”
  • Sarah Shook & The Disarmers - “Good As Gold”

4/5/2025 - Our broadcasting computer died a few days before this show … but by some miracle, we made it work anyway … with a two-hour program!

  • Aaron Watson - “Barbed Wire Halo”
  • Clay Davidson - “Sometimes”
  • Sara Evans - “Suds In The Bucket”
  • Trace Adkins - “Metropolis”
  • Reba McEntire - “How Was I To Know”
  • Brooks & Dunn & Luke Combs - “Brand New Man”
  • Mica Roberts - “Things A Mama Don’t Know”
  • Brooks & Dunn - “Lost & Found”
  • Gary Allan - “Smoke Rings In The Dark”
  • Maddie and Tae - “Die From A Broken Heart”
  • Shane McAnally - “Are Your Eyes Still Blue”
  • Kylie Rae Harris - “Missouri”
  • Jamey Johnson - “High Cost Of Living”
  • Montgomery Gentry - “Tattoos & Scars”
  • Robynn Shayne - “Whiskey and Bad Decisions”
  • Yankee Grey - “All Things Considered”
  • Kellie Pickler - “Long As I Never See You Again”
  • Loretta Lynn - “Fist City”
  • Randy Travis - “Three Wooden Crosses”
  • Lori McKenna - “People Get Old”
  • Sammy Kershaw - “Queen Of My Double Wide Trailer”
  • Jamie Lin Wilson - “Dusty Shoes”
  • Lari White - “John Wayne Walking Away”
  • Hal Ketchum - “Small Town Saturday Night”
  • Patty Loveless & Chris Young - “Love Don’t Let Me Down”
  • Lee Ann Womack & Willie Nelson - “Mendocino County Line”
  • Jessi Colter - “I’m Not Lisa”
  • Radney Foster - “Just Call Me Lonesome”
  • Mary Chapin Carpenter - “Passionate Kisses”
  • Dwight Yoakam & Buck Owens - “Streets Of Bakersfield”

3/29/2019

  • George Strait - “Some Days”
  • Lauren Jenkins - “No Saint”
  • Tanya Tucker - “Delta Dawn”
  • George Strait - “Marina Del Rey”
  • The Judds - “Why Not Me”
  • John Anderson - “Seminole Wind”
  • George Strait - “Run”
  • Bri Bagwell - “Cheat On Me”
  • Randy Rogers Band - “San Antone”
  • Mark Chesnutt - “Bubba Shot The Jukebox”
  • Jaime Wyatt - “Wishing Well”
  • Wade Bowen - “When I Woke Up Today”
  • Lee Ann Womack - “Last Call”
  • Marty Robbins - “El Paso”

3/8/2025 (unfortunately had to do 1:30-2:30 for this show. Also, italicized songs indicate songs that were Twitter requests. For more information, read the note for the March 1 show).

  • Waylon Jennings - “Whistlers and Jugglers”
  • Margo Price - “Weakness”
  • Dierks Bentley - “How Am I Doin'”
  • Alan Jackson - “Between The Devil and Me”
  • The Wreckers - “Leave The Pieces”
  • Alison Krauss & Union Station - “Paper Airplane”
  • Jamey Johnson - “Flying Silver Eagle”
  • Tanya Tucker - “Old Dan Tucker’s Daughter”
  • Colter Wall - “Saskatchewan In 1881”
  • Austin Meade - “Colorblind”
  • Stevie Nicks - “After The Glitter Fades”
  • Turnpike Troubadours - “7 & 7”
  • Steve Earle - “Galway Girl”
  • Kaitlin Butts - “Same Hell, Different Devil”

3/1/2026 - this show was essentially one giant request show courtesy of this tweet. I played one song from every list provided in order of when I was sent each list.

  • David Ball - “Riding With Private Malone”
  • Eric Church - “Springsteen”
  • Sunny Sweeney - “Trophy”
  • Vern Godsin - “Set ‘Em Up Joe”
  • The Rolling Stones - “Dead Flowers”
  • Guy Clark - “Desperadoes Waiting For A Train”
  • Reba McEntire - “Fancy”
  • Pistol Annies - “Got My Name Changed Back”
  • Cody Jinks - “Hippies and Cowboys”
  • Courtney Patton - “Round Mountain”
  • Kacey Musgraves - “Space Cowboy”
  • Loretta Lynn & Jack White - “Portland, Oregon”
  • Suzy Bogguss - “Outbound Plane”
  • Randy Rogers & Wade Bowen - “Standards”

2/22/2019

  • Yola - “Ride Out In The Country”
  • Zac Brown Band - “Jolene”
  • Holly Williams - “Railroads”
  • Josh Turner - “Loretta Lynn’s Lincoln”
  • Loretta Lynn - “Don’t Come Home A Drinkin’ … “
  • Charles Wesley Godwin - “Windmill (Keep On Turning)”
  • Alice Wallace - “Echo Canyon”
  • Patsy Cline - “Walking After Midnight”
  • Lindi Ortega - “Waitin’ Round To Die”
  • Tim McGraw - “Telluride”
  • Reckless Kelly - “Wild Western Windblown Band”
  • Elvis Presley - For The Good Times
  • Reba McEntire - “The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia”
  • Sunny Sweeney - “Staying’s Worse Than Leaving”
  • Flatland Cavalry - “Come Back Down”

2/15/2019

  • Kacey Musgraves - “Back On The Map”
  • Brandi Carlile - “The Eye”
  • Dwight Yoakam - “Fast As You”
  • Mary Chapin Carpenter - “He Thinks He’ll Keep Her”
  • Hayes Carll - “Be There”
  • Dolly Parton - “Jolene”
  • Hank Williams Jr. - “127 Rose Avenue”
  • Luke Combs - “Honky Tonk Highway”
  • Ashley McBryde - “Tired Of Being Happy”
  • Randy Rogers Band - “Crazy People”
  • Tanya Tucker - “Shotgun”
  • Joe Nichols - “Brokenheartsville”
  • Lori McKenna - “The Fixer”