CW54 Emisora Del Este

There's folk, and then there's Folk radio Uruguay style: nylon-string guitar, milonga, candombe, and voices that sound like they've been smoking for forty years. CW54 Emisora Del Este carries that tradition without polishing it into a museum piece. You'll hear Alfredo Zitarrosa and Los Olimareños sitting next to younger Uruguayan songwriters, plus plenty of Latin American music from across the border. Not all music, though. News and sports run through the programming, local enough that the football talk actually means something. Some of the commentary drags. That's radio. When the music comes…