Classic Country Radio: Outlaw, Americana and Country Gold

Published 24 September 2026

You can listen to classic country radio online in any browser, with no download and no account: open 72FM, search for "classic country" or "outlaw", and press play. Today's country charts are one thing; for many listeners the heart of the music is older — Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Merle Haggard, Dolly Parton, and the outlaws of the 1970s — and there are stations that play nothing else.

Classic country stations

• 181.FM — Highway 181 — classic country from the United States.
• 1.FM — Classic Country Radio — at 256kbps.
• Big R Radio — Country Gold — country hits of the past decades.
• Best Net Radio — Country Oldies — older country.
• Boss Country Radio — the greatest country hits.
• Truckers Radio USA — country for the road.
• Exclusively Johnny Cash — the Man in Black, all day.

Outlaw country

In the early 1970s Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and others pushed back against the polish of the Nashville sound, and outlaw country was born. Stations that carry the flame:

• The Outlaw and Outlaw — Country Music Radio — the second at 320kbps.
• Exclusively Willie Nelson — Willie, all day.

Americana

The rootsier, folkier side of country — alt-country, singer-songwriters, bluegrass influences:

• SomaFM Boot Liquor — Americana and roots music from San Francisco, at 320kbps.
• Radio Free Texas and Radio Free Americana — roots and Texas country.

A route in

1. 181.FM — Highway 181, for the classics.
2. The Outlaw, for Willie and Waylon's side of the story.
3. SomaFM Boot Liquor, for Americana.
4. Exclusively Johnny Cash, for one great voice.

For today's country and the full story, country radio online goes further, and rockabilly radio covers country's rock and roll cousin.