Greetings From Lainey... She is joining the party!!!

The hits keep coming from Lainey Wilson.  She has teamed with Ohio Company American Greetings!  They will have special SmashUps for you to personalize for someone special...

Click Here to see what is in store for Lainey who will be at The Country Fest in June.  

The new WQMX Merch shop is here, up, and running! We have Tanks, Hoodies, and Trucker Hats! Get yours today before it's too late! What's great about the hoodies this time is there are several colors to choose from, so pick which one you think would go best in your closet!

I know I am getting a hoodie - still have to decide on what color I want though. Have fun, and buy some items for friends and family too!

This Saturday, I will be out not once, but twice with Send Me Backstage T-Shirts and a chance to win passes to The Country Fest! I hope to see you at either Edinburg Tractor Sales in Rootstown or Tractor Supply in Solon! Click here for more details! 

It's Springtime! Critters are waking up from hibernation, flowers are beginning to poke their way through the dirt, birds are chirping, and that one thing is back in the sky... I think it's called the sun? 

It's about that time of the year for us to let the rays beam in through the windows. If your home is anything like mine, this natural light reveals all the dust and grunge. There's the inevitable clutter everywhere from snow shovels, boots, and coats. We're tracking in mud like crazy with the ground now thawing and the mixed precipitation. Our two little kitty cats shed more hair than a St. Benard, too; I swear! Etc. 

So, yeah. Let's get to freshening up the place. Whether it's mopping, mowing, or making the bed, we all have chores we hate and some we don't mind as bad. Maybe there's even a few you enjoy doing.

With that, here's my top ten chores!

10. Doing Laundry

9. Cleaning the Bathroom

8. Dusting

7. Vacuuming/Mopping/Sweeping

6. Taking the Trash Out

5. Cleaning Windows

4. Clearing the Gutters

3. Making the Bed

2. Mowing the Lawn

1. Doing Dishes

My absolute least favorite chore: pulling weeds.

How about you, though? 

As always, thanks for checking this out, and thanks for listening to Your Country 94.9 WQMX. We'll handle the music so you can get to doing some spring cleaning chores! If you've got a smart speaker around the house, just tell it to play 94.9 WQMX and keep crossing off those to-dos with all your favorite songs to motivate.  

Every week night, you can ride home in style with the "drive @5" from National Design Mart.  

You will hear all of your favorite country and I'll have plenty of chances to win! 

All this week at 5:15 listen for the Neon Nights Glowaway Montage from Klaben Auto Stores... 

You could win a pair of commuter passes for Brad Paisley, Trace Adkins, Pam Tillis, Skynyrd, Mark Chesnutt, Blackhawk, The Kentucky Headhunters and ZZ Top.

Y'all get home safe now ya hear with 94.9 WQMX!

Coming up this Fall (October 4-5) will be the first Country Calling Festival in Ocean City, MD. Headliners will include: Eric Church, Jell Roll, Tyler Childers, and Lainey Wilson.

Also on the bill are: Riley Green, Bailey Zimmerman, Brothers Osborne, Parmalee, Clint Black, Priscilla Block, and many many more! Sounds like a great time to get in one last weekend at the beach later this year :)

Every artist has their medium. Songwriters play pianos, painters lay oil-based colors, sculptors chisel marble, and photographers capture the world with cameras. When it comes to dry-erase markers on a whiteboard, though; it's hardly a medium... and that works out since I'm hardly an artist!

I like to think I'm creative more so than artistic. As a casual multi-instrumentalist, I'd probably label myself a musician, if anything. I suppose I'm something of a wordsmith, too. So, while you probably won't catch me at the Hobby Lobby, nothing says I can't do a little flower drawing.

Here it is, on the WQMX studio whiteboard just in time for Spring! 

For the New Song Spotlight tonight, I have a new song from Kylie Morgan called "Two Night Stands". As always, I will want your feedback on the phone lines or the Toth Buick GMC texline at 330-370-2000.

What makes tonight a little different is if you REALLY like the song, be listening to Scott & Sarah in the Morning the rest of the week. At 7:40 with the Nearly Impossible Question, they have your chance to win tickets to see Kylie Morgan when she stops in town April 13th at the Dusty Armadillo!

Catch up with the latest new music and Kylie Morgan's new song tonight at 9:00 on WQMX!

 As Women's History Month comes to an end, I wanted to feature this - event.  Three friends Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt put together this incredible project that was heralded at that moment and has stood the test of time.  This album is simply sensational for about every reason an album can be.  If you've never heard it, it's worth a download or at least a YouTube listen. This is about as good as specialty projects or events get.  Mainly, because it's not just tossing people together and doing an album.  They are legends and this is spectacular as you would expect it to be.

One Of Trio's Singles #5

This project was finally done in 1987 after being thought about for well over 10 years.  At the time these three were all in the middle of very successful solo recording and touring careers.  But, finally after many years they decided it was time to sit down and get this done.  All three of these remarkable women were big stars.  Dolly of course in country, pop and then the movies becoming an international icon.  Emmylou had a terrific run in country for many years as a solo artist and as a duet partner with a huge amount of stars having a following in and out of country.  She also has one of the most distinctive voices we have ever had. Plus Harris is one of the most respected vocalists and artists ever in our format.  Linda of course was among the most versatile vocalists ever in the music biz of any kind.  She was a big pop-rock star for years, then great success in country scoring a lot of big hit songs. 

The First Single - Trio

They also assembled the best acoustic musicians to be a part of this wonderful album. In the end the key to this very good idea was this. All three had great fan bases and all three had loyal followings across the board. They all are immensely talented and the blending of voices and styles melded perfectly on this album. This sold millions, and won awards and brought a lot of pub to country at a time mainstream coverage was tough for us to get.  To me, it's the crown jewel of all of their careers, in that fact only these three could have done this. 

Emmylou Harris Solo - Angelic Voice - Legend

In 1999 there was a second Trio Album, Trio 2.  It too was reviewed with great enthusiasm and in fairness is a very good album. But for me the magic of this first Trio album is very tough to top.  What a GREAT project, three friends at the top of their games coming together to give us this gift.

Huge Country Hit For Linda Ronstadt  - Solo

Dolly At Her Best - Solo

You know what might be fun? Calling on Reba, Trisha Yearwood and Alison Krauss to do something similar to this in today's world.

Taylor Swift  - You Belong With Me  - 2009 -  (Album  -  Fearless)

  No matter how big of a star you are, you can have a song in the Forgotten Jukebox.  There is little doubt this song lives on at her mega concerts, but as far as country singles and airplay go, many of her country singles from years ago have been shelved.   But this is a great song from her country days.  She was just coming into her own as a star and was on tour with other "bigger stars" (seems laughable now), where she wrote the Fearless album, and this single was on it.  I loved this song, inspired by an overheard phone conversation, plus the video sent a message to the rest of Nashville this was not business as usual. No one could have seen coming what we see today, but there was no doubt there was something different about her, I knew it then.  She was honest, vulnerable, straight forward and singing her absolute truth.  The undeniable strength of Taylor Swift, still today is that she knows exactly who she is singing to, who they are, what they want to hear, and what they would want to say if they were in her position within the song.  She is as influential as any star we have ever had, and her influence will continue far beyond the Era's Tour.  It will be felt for years to come.  As influential as she is, there will always only be one Taylor Swift.  Great song and strong video here.

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