K99 Country

Country radio in the States has a reputation problem: too much bro-country, too many pickup-truck anthems built on the same three chords. K99 Country mostly sidesteps it. The playlist leans hard on the modern traditionalists, Tyler Childers, Sturgill Simpson, Ashley McBryde, the kind of songwriting that name-drops a place you could actually find on a map. There's Chris Stapleton in there too, plus enough George Strait and Merle Haggard to keep the older crowd from drifting off. It's a broad tent. K99 Country live is unglamorous and dependable, which is exactly the job. Where it stumbles is rep…