Tom Hanks Helps Launch Classic Country Streaming Station
Country music has a lot of famous Hanks, but who knew that the legendary actor Tom Hanks was such a fan of them? Hanks may be his last name not first, but Tom’s appreciation for country music apparently veers well into the older stuff, and into the obscure cuts of famous artists, along with obscure cuts of obscure artists.
This is the curation point of the new classic country streaming station called “Country A-Go-Go” that was recently launched on streaming platform TuneIn. Partnering with Tom Hanks was radio veteran Debbie Daughtry to digitized over 3,500 vinyl records from their personal collections and various sources across the country to seed the streaming station. It was launched in conjunction with the observance of the 100th Birthday of Hank Williams.
“This is the music that I grew up with, and still influences the music that I love to this day,” said Debbie Daughtry. “The new generation of country music artists are amazing. The genre is having a huge comeback right now. Country A-Go-Go reconnects listeners with country music’s origins to hear the legends that gave country its soul. This station is for any country music fan that wants to hear great music from a very influential time in history.”
Looking over the “Recently Played” tab on the station, she’s not kidding. Along with greats like Hank Williams, Tammy Wynette, George Jones, Ray Price, and Wanda Jackson, you’ll see stuff from Homer & Jethro and Fess Parker. This isn’t a station just to hear all your favorite and familiar hits. You’re likely to run into something you haven’t heard before, and may love.
The station is also enhanced with vintage advertisements as opposed to new stuff, hopefully creating an immersive experience of listening to a classic country radio station from back in the day.
Just exactly how involved Tom Hanks is in the station is up for interpretation, but he regularly appears as a gust DJ on TuneIn’s Boss Radio 66, which is basically the same station but focused on old rock and roll. Boss Radio 66 was started by Debbie Daughtry as well.
Country A-Go-Go is now available to stream on TuneIn.
September 21, 2023 @ 10:08 am
Good to hear. Funny thing the first Buck Owen’s song I ever heard was the cover of “Act Naturally” that Riders in the Sky did for the second Toy Story movie.
September 22, 2023 @ 4:21 pm
Hey, if you are the same Captain B who lives in the Greenville area, I was wondering if you made it to either of the Jesse Daniel shows last weekend.
September 21, 2023 @ 11:20 am
I wonder if Forrest Gump’s favorite country song is “Run” by George Strait.
September 21, 2023 @ 1:42 pm
Will be nice to see if this country station remains mostly true to the country classics.
Or, will it be more of a launching pad for Rita Wilson, (Tom Hanks wife) and her friends, who are up and coming “Country” music stars – according to some publications.
September 21, 2023 @ 3:38 pm
I think that portraying Woody has opened up his love of country. Working with the likes of Riders in the Sky will awaken anyone’s love of traditional country. Good for him for doing this.
September 21, 2023 @ 5:15 pm
IDK about you all but I definitely want to hear the country songs Tom Hanks enjoys while relaxing on Epstein island or while getting those adrenochrome injections.
September 21, 2023 @ 5:42 pm
Do you really believe that shit? Hanks’ name isn’t even in the flight logs.
September 21, 2023 @ 7:47 pm
JEEBus! Five comments in and we have a dispatch from good ole Trailer Park Scientology.
September 21, 2023 @ 11:15 pm
I’m being purposefully facetious about the Epstein thing – although many A list celebrities have ties to him. I’m beginning to believe there is something to the adrenochrome claims simply from the mainstream stories of celebrities openly admitting to getting transfusions of blood from younger people and the foreskin facial injections.
Also the child trafficking numbers are staggering, Rolling Stone used to talk about it 10 years ago before it became a “conspiracy theory.”
I just refuse to idolize any A list celebrity because it’s highly likely that they are awful people behind closed doors.
September 22, 2023 @ 7:43 pm
Lots of people don’t want to admit that their celebrity heroes are not good people.
They prefer the Wizard of Oz fantasy.
September 22, 2023 @ 7:49 pm
Folks, this has nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. Tom Hanks is not part of the Epstein controversy. Leave a relevant comment about this radio station, or move on. This is the exact kind of topic I request folks please refrain from bringing up because all it does is lead to acrimony.
Thanks!
September 22, 2023 @ 10:29 am
Did you think this was a worthwhile comment?
And Trigger wonders why leftists are so quick to dismiss pedo claims from the right. You just make things up.
September 22, 2023 @ 9:34 pm
Child sex abuse, sad to say, occurs among people of all political stripes–liberal and conservative.
The only thing I can say with pretty strong confidence is that the group with the highest incidence of abuse is self-appointed and self-declared heroes who report on their exploits of saving kids from sex abuse. The protagonist and the producer of “Sound of Freedom” seem to possibly be the latest in a long line of such frauds
September 21, 2023 @ 9:14 pm
I can personally attest to Hanks affinity for country – so I was in grad school at UCLA in 2011 when he and Rita assembled a reading of Shakespeare’s “The Merry Wives of Windsor” at Royce Hall as a fundraiser for the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles. So they had free tickets for student veterans which was how I got in and imagine how happy I was when I realized they were countrifying it, and set it in the American west! Sure he, William Shatner, Christina Applegate, and Martin short were all doing parts, but then there was Faith Hill and Reba herself doing parts too, Reba even singing “Your Cheatin’ Heart” and “My Bucket’s Got a Hole In It.” A classic night…
September 23, 2023 @ 8:43 pm
I really hope that some newer acts do guest DJ spots to draw younger crowds to the older stuff. It took me a while to appreciate Bob Wills or Louise Massey I had to start with someone like Suzy Boggus and slowly inch my way more honky- tonk. Dwight Yoakam also helped.
I love the preservation/curation aspect of it and hope the do things like birthday tributes and play a bunch of Hank Snow or Emmylou…
But that aside it really does show what a glut of musical recordings we have and there is just not the time for all of it. Even more so if you fan multiple genres and eras.
September 23, 2023 @ 8:32 am
I can’t stop listening to this channel. Country a-go-go is amazing. if you like old honk at all you’ll never leave this channel
September 25, 2023 @ 3:55 pm
Agree, it is playing great music, not just the same old either.
September 27, 2023 @ 12:35 pm
Just started listening today. I have to say I wasn’t sure if I was going to stay when they played Nancy Sinatra singing Bang Bang. Hopefully, it will grow on me because I love the classic country that heard before the year 2000.
November 11, 2023 @ 9:20 am
I am currently streaming this service on ALEXA by asking ” ALEXA stream Country A-Go-Go ”
Nice selections so far.