KIRC 105.9

Genuine Country Shopper is a bring in Buy-Sell-Trade fragment publicized weekdays from 11:00 to Noon. At Real Country, KIRC 105.9 pride ourselves on giving our audience members a mix of the best of old and new Country Hits! The different configuration draws in audience members from 18 to 65+. Genuine Country draws a shifted age demographic by playing hits from Bob Wills to the Dixie Chicks, and everything in the middle KIRC 105.9

Country music is a genre of American popular music that originated in the Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from the southeastern genre of American folk music and Western music. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history. Country music often consists of ballads and dance tunes with generally simple forms and harmonies accompanied by mostly string instruments such as banjos, electric and acoustic guitars, dobros and fiddles as well as harmonicas. The term country music gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to the earlier term hillbilly music; it came to encompass Western music, which evolved parallel to hillbilly music from similar roots, in the mid-20th century. The term country music is used today to describe many styles and subgenres. The origins of country music are the folk music of mostly white, working-class Americans, who blended popular songs, Irish and Celtic fiddle tunes, traditional ballads, and cowboy songs, and various musical traditions from European immigrant communities. In 2009 country music was the most listened to rush hour radio genre during the evening commute, and second most popular in the morning commute in the United States.

KIRC 105.9