Good Music on TV Today (and Every Friday!) -- Friday, April 6, 2018

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While we cover Friday's whole musical TV broadcast scene, we need to pause to say this: If you don't know about RFD TV, you haven't read our periodic postings for Music-on-TV.

It's in your cable or satellite "basic-plus" package and available with any of those new apps like Sling TV.

Here's why you should care.

RFD, which has always proclaimed itself as "America's favorite rural network," keeps adding to its formidable lineup of Roots-Americana music programming. It's everything good, with performances by today's up-and-comers to legends performing on long-gone shows from way back when. And we are your "Guide" to take you through all of it.

And Fridays are when it's at its best.

We're also listing KLCS AND OTHER GOOD MUSIC PROGRAMMING that airs today. So whether or not you can get to a venue this weekend for some live music and immersive escape from your daily doldrums, we've gotcha covered with recommendations for the small screen, for today and EVERY FRIDAY.

Drum roll, maestro....

ALL LISTINGS ARE FOR FRIDAY.
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11-11:30 am - "HEART TO HEART CLASSICS" airs a 2018 edition. The focus is always bluegrass and trad country music. On RFD.
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11:30 am-noon - "NASHVILLE ON THE ROAD" airs a 1975 episode with a duo called DAVE AND SUGAR, performing country music and country in "different outdoor locations." On RFD.
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Noon-12:30 pm - "TRU COUNTRY" (2017) airs an episode with performances by YOUNG COUNTRY WITH LANDON DODD, AMBER DIGBY, and the TC BAND. On RFD.
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1-1:30 pm - "THE PORTER WAGONER SHOW" is one in a series of 2017 remixes of a vintage live-performance showcase of a multitude of Americana artists and songs by the host. This one features BARBARA GREEN. On RFD.
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1:30-2 pm - "POP GOES THE COUNTRY" airs a 1974 episode with performances by BILL ANDERSON and DOTTSY. On RFD.
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2-3 pm - "BIG JOE POLKA SHOW" brings a 2018 edition with a compilation of "classics" from past shows.
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3-4 pm - "WOODSONGS" airs a 2015 edition with bluegrass legends J.D. CROWE, DOYLE LAWSON, And PAUL WILLIAMS, in their all-star trio as CROWE, LAWSON & WILLIAMS. This is from "season 17" of a show that the rest of the nation has celebrated for years, but that we have only recently been allowed to discover on L.A. television, Tuesdays at 11 pm on KLCS, in addition to Friday afternoons on RFD. (We had the host and a cast member musician from "Woodsongs" on our long-gone L.A. broadcast radio show, way-back-when, helped build its web radio listener base, and have been fans ever since.) And, y'know, ever since "ACL" and that show that replaced "A Prairie Home Companion" on NPR both went into unpredictable explorations of annoying pop with only occasional Roots-Americana? Well pardner, "WOODSONGS" is all the more vital in our musical universe. On RFD.
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4-4:30 pm - "JIMMY STURR SHOW" airs a 2017 episode with performances by CHRIS CAFFERY and OLIVIA MILLERSCHIN from the Historic Paramount Theatre. On RFD.
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4:30-5 pm - "THE DUTTONS THROUGH THE YEARS" brings a new 2018 edition with "TINY VIOLINS AND HEAVY BANJOS." On RFD.
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5-6 pm - "COUNTRY'S FAMILY REUNION" airs "HONKYTONK Pt. 1," a newly recut edition originally seen in 2015. Performing guests are country, alt-country, trad-country, and Americana "stars of the past, present, and future." On RFD.
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MUSIC HAPPENS ON OTHER CHANNELS FRIDAY EVENINGS. We list those, too!

RFD does other things for a few hours, and is back with music at 7:30 for an hour, and then gets tuneful again from 9-10 pm every Friday.
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7:30-8:30 pm - "THE JIMMY DEAN SHOW" unearths a fine episode from 1965, with performances by EDDY ARNOLD, BUCK OWENS, CONNIE SMITH, and LINDA GAYLE. On RFD.
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8-8:30 pm - "SUN STUDIO SESSIONS" re-airs a 2012 edition with Memphis-based LUCERO. On KLCS.
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NOT MUSIC, BUT COOL...

8-8:30 pm - "REDACTED TONIGHT" brings a fresh weekly edition that is the week's only "can't-miss" show on TV for the Guide staff. Host Lee Camp and his talented crew bring the ONLY presentation of the world's sociopolitical antics that will make you laugh as well as cry, as they cover a lot of ground that corporate mainstream media won't touch. It re-airs again tonight, 11:29 pm-midnight. It's on RT AMERICA, via cable, Direct TV, or simulcast at RT.com, and all past eps are archived on YouTube.
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8:30-9 pm - "BLUEGRASS UNDERGROUND" brings a 2015 (season 7) performance by MARTY STUART. On KLCS.
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9-10 pm - "COUNTRY'S FAMILY REUNION" re-airs "HONKYTONK Pt. 1," a newly recut edition originally seen in 2015. Performing guests are country, alt-country, trad-country, and Americana "stars of the past, present, and future." On RFD.
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9-10 pm - "AUSTIN CITY LIMITS" brings a 2017 (season 42) performance with separate sets by BAND OF HORSES and PARKER MILLSAP. On KLCS.
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10-11 pm - "FRONT AND CENTER" Repeats an edition from their 2018 "SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME," this one with NILE RODGERS. On KLCS.
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11 pm-midnight - "LIVE FROM THE ARTISTS DEN" re-airs a 2016 episode with MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS. On KLCS.
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FINALLY...

If you're getting in late? Most of the KLCS Friday evening music lineup repeats from 2 am-5 am.

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More soon. Stay tuneful!

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