1400 AM (+103.7 FM) The Boss Country

Country radio has two moods: the shiny Nashville stuff and the stuff that still smells like a honky-tonk floor. The Boss Country lives in the second one. Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, George Jones, Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn. If a record was cut before 1985 and it hurt a little, it's probably in rotation here. The AM side carries the character. 64kbps won't win any audio awards, but these old recordings never had much gloss to lose, and that's exactly the charm. Expect Bakersfield twang, plenty of it, plus outlaw-era grit: Buck Owens, Waylon Jennings, maybe a little Conway Twitty. Modern countr…