Our Shows
Every program on Steel Guitar Radio is built around the sound we love. Get to know the shows, then tune in live or catch the archives.
The Morning Steel
Start your day with a cry and a shuffle.
Wade Carver eases you into the morning with classic country favorites, coffee-shop conversation, and a steel guitar in every set. Requests welcome from the first bell.
Honky-Tonk Highway
Two-steppin' from noon 'til the dinner bell.
Loretta Hale runs the dance-hall standards—Ray Price shuffles, Texas swing, and jukebox heartbreakers built for the honky-tonk floor.
Dedication Dinner Bell
Your requests & dedications, on the air.
Monday afternoons belong to you. Send a dedication to someone special and we'll ring the dinner bell with a classic just for them. Requests aren't guaranteed to play immediately, but our hosts read every one.
Two-Step Tuesday
If you can't dance to it, we don't play it.
Every Tuesday afternoon we clear the floor for nothing but dance-hall shuffles, western swing, and boot-scootin' two-steppers—steel guitar, twin fiddles, and a rhythm section built for the honky-tonk.
Wayback Wednesday
Deep cuts, B-sides & forgotten jukebox gems.
Midweek we dig past the hits into the deep catalog—the album cuts, one-off singles, and criminally overlooked records that true country fans treasure. If you know these, you're one of us.
Throwback Thursday
One classic album, one full side.
Thursday afternoons we pull a landmark record off the shelf and play it like it was meant to be heard. A different classic country album spotlighted every week.
Freewheelin' Friday
Outlaw country & road songs to start the weekend.
We kick off the weekend with the rowdy side of the format—outlaw anthems, trucker songs, and road music. Roll the windows down and turn it up.
6 at 6
The 1960s, every evening at six.
We open the night in the 1960s—the Bakersfield boom, the Nashville Sound, and the first golden age of the pedal steel guitar. An hour of the foundational records everything after was built on.
70s at 7
Outlaws, countrypolitan & the golden age of steel.
Seven o'clock means the 1970s—the outlaw movement, lush countrypolitan ballads, and pedal steel at its most expressive. From Waylon and Willie to George Jones at the peak of his powers.
80s at 8
The neotraditional boom.
The 1980s brought country back to its roots—Strait, Skaggs, Randy Travis and the Judds put the fiddle and steel front and center again. The decade that made traditional country cool once more.
90s at 9
The hat acts & the class of '89.
Nine o'clock rolls back to the 1990s—the biggest era in country radio history. Anthemic two-steppers, powerhouse ballads, and the traditionalists who ruled the decade.
2K at 10
The 2000s traditionalists holding the line.
The 2000s block—the artists who kept real country on the radio as the format changed around them. Strait and Jackson still on top, with a new class carrying steel and story into a new century.
New at 11
The new traditionalists keeping it real.
The late shift belongs to right now—the independent and new-traditional artists proving country never had to leave the steel guitar behind. Zach Top, Jake Worthington, Emily Nenni and the class carrying the torch.
The Bakersfield Hour
Telecaster twang and California steel.
One hour devoted to the Bakersfield Sound—Buck, Merle, and the West Coast honky-tonk tradition that put the sting back in country music.
Real Country, Real Fast
A no-talk power hour of pure country.
Named for our motto—a rapid-fire, back-to-back hour of uptempo real country with the steel loud and the talk turned off. Just the hits, one after another.
Pedal to the Metal
A weekly steel guitar legend spotlight.
Each week we put one steel guitar great in the spotlight—the players who made the instrument cry. The songs, the sessions, and the licks that defined a career.
The Honky-Tonk Countdown
Your Top 20, voted by listeners.
The songs you voted up all week, counted down Saturday night. Cast your vote through the site and hear where your favorites land.
Sunday Steel Service
Gospel & sacred steel to start your Sunday.
Sunday mornings we slow it down for country gospel and sacred steel—hymns and standards carried by the most soulful instrument in the room.
Steel Guitar Sundays
An afternoon of pure pedal steel.
Instrumental showcases, steel-forward sessions, and the players behind the sound. If you love the bend and the cry, this is your church.
New Traditional Spotlight
The torchbearers keeping it real.
June McCall spotlights today's independent and new-traditional artists—the ones proving country music never had to leave the steel guitar behind.
The Crying Hour
The weepers. Bring a handkerchief.
Sunday nights we lean all the way into heartbreak—the barroom ballads and cheating songs where the steel guitar does the crying for you.
Midnight Cryin' Time
Slow songs for the small hours.
Dusty Rhodes closes the night with the weepers—ballads, barroom confessions, and the lonesome side of the steel guitar.
String Theory
The story behind a classic steel lick.
A weekly segment breaking down a legendary steel guitar part—how it was played, who played it, and why it still gives you chills. One song, one lick, one story.
New or Nope
You decide what makes the rotation.
We debut a brand-new traditional-country single and you vote: add it to rotation, or nope. A direct line from new artists to the airwaves—submissions welcome through the site.
Christmas in the Country
A steel-driven country Christmas.
Our December takeover—classic country Christmas standards and steel guitar carols, all season long.
Fair Season
Summer nights, county fairs & rodeo country.
A summer special celebrating the county-fair and rodeo circuit—the songs that soundtrack warm nights on the midway.
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Our full weekly schedule shows what’s on now, what’s up next, and the steel-guitar rotation that keeps the music going around the clock.
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