ABOUT:

WELCOME TO ALBUM ROCK WXYG.

If you grew up listening to underground, progressive rock, free form radio, or if you're just discovering or re-discovering the golden age of rock for the first time, we think you will be really happy that you have finally found your radio home.

We are returning to a better time when radio played all the great music - GENRES BE DAMNED!  Thousands and thousands of the greatest album rock songs ever recorded.  This is not a classic rock station where they play the same 200 songs over and over again.  This is album rock WXYG.

You will be able to listen to us over the air or you can tune in to our high quality internet stream.  Please feel free to suggest your favorite songs to us.  We will do our best to play them for you.  We welcome your suggestions and feedback.  Please let us know how we're doing.  The folks here at album rock "The Goat" who by the way are local owners and operators, hope that you love our new broadcast adventure as much as we love bringing it to you.  Now presenting a new age in broadcast radio - radio that returns the power of great music TO THE PEOPLE.

Please enjoy....Ladies and Gentlemen - ALBUM ROCK WXYG.

NEW GOAT T-SHIRTS:

THE NEW GOAT T-SHIRTS ARE IN.

Select sizes are stil available!!!
High quality, stylish, comfortable and cool...VERY COOL

GET YOUR GOAT ON!!!

Purchase online or stop into the Goat studio at the Redhouse

1010 2nd St. N

Sauk Rapids, MN 56303

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GOAT BUMPER STICKERS ARE IN:

HOW TO GET YOURS...

1) Anywhere that Al Neff or The GOAT are appearing, there will be stickers.

2) Come by the WXYG studios in the “Red House” Mon-Fri during Business Hours.

3) Send us a Stamped, Self Addressed envelope. The stickers are 5” X 6” in size, so please send a “size appropriate” envelope, because you wouldn’t want us to fold your sticker.

The Address to send for your sticker is :
GOAT BUMPER STICKER
c/o TRI COUNTY BROADCASTING
1010 2ND STREET NORTH
SAUK RAPIDS, MN 56379

STREAMING:

LISTEN ONLINE.

Album Rock WXYG "The Goat" is online and mobile.  You can listen wherever you are as long as you have your computer and an internet connection or a portable phone.  If you can't hear audio or the player doesn't start, please  make sure you have installed Adobe's Flash Player (HERE)

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ANDROID USERS:

Got an android phone:  Our regular streaming provider does support android phones...however...There's a great app that we found for Android phones at www.tunein.com that carries our live stream.  By the way is also supports iPhone, iPad, Palm, Blackberry, Samsung, Yahoo TV, Google TV and Roku.

CONCERTS:

UPCOMING SHOWS

APRIL WINE / HEAD EAST Saturday, October 20 Medina Entertainment Center     FLEETWOOD MAC Monday, October 22 Xcel Energy Center     LITTLE RIVER BAND Saturday, November 10 Medina Entertainment Center     MOLLY HATCHET Saturday, November 17 Medina Entertainment Center

BOB SEGER & SILVER BULLET BAND Wednesday, December 12 Xcel Energy Center     ELTON JOHN Thursday, February  21, 2019 Target Center     ELTON JOHN Friday, February  22, 2019 Target Center

SUNDAY'S LONG PLAY

In the world of Progressive Rock, 1968 may well have been the greatest year of all. The diversity alone is astounding. "The Long Play with Al Neff" is a continuing Sunday Evening feature on The GOAT. Every Sunday Evening, Album Rock WXYG, The GOAT features a full album at 8:00 PM from the halcyon musical days of 1968. Next Sunday, August 19th, The GOAT’S Feature Album will be John Mayall’s, “Blues From Laurel Canyon”.

Blues From Laurel Canyon was John Mayall’s first solo album after the break up of the BluesBreakers.
John Mayall sings and plays harmonica, organ and guitar on the album. Other musicians include a young Mick Taylor (guitar), Colin Allen (drums) and Stephen Thompson (bass). The guitarist Peter Green is featured on the track First Time Alone. The engineer was Derek Varnals. All the songs on the album were written by Mayall.
The title of the album derives from Laurel Canyon, California, United States (in the Los Angeles area) where John Mayall subsequently lived from 1969 to 1979. It forms a record of his visit there before moving to the US on a more permanent basis. The area was favoured by many musicians at the time. It was recorded at Decca Studios in West Hampstead, London, England between 26 and 28 August 1968, and was released on the Decca label.

The album was innovative for its time, especially by the standards of blues recordings. The first track opens with a recording of a jet airliner landing, dissolving into the driving rhythm of the song. There were no visible track divisions on the vinyl album. Some songs fade or segue into the next track, others stop on a chord which is immediately followed by the introduction of the next track. Tabla drums are used, as is the technique of hitting guitar strings with a drumstick. The final track is a long song which moves into an extended lead guitar solo underscored by Mayall's Hammond organ, fading into a simple unaccompanied guitar figure which repeats until it too fades.

The lyrics are autobiographical and refer, if obliquely, to people Mayall met on his first visit, such as Frank Zappa and Moon Unit Zappa (on 2401), the band Canned Heat (on The Bear), and famous groupie, Catherine James (on Miss James).
Tune In and Turn On, Next Sunday evening, and every Sunday evening at 8:00 PM for The GOAT'S "The Long Play with Al Neff".

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Into the Music is a series of radio profiles which highlights the artists, events, eras and evolution that shaped the sounds of popular music.

Into the Music provides listeners with a concise entry-point and guide to rock, pop, blues & folk music.

Into the Music is created by Hwy. 61 Productions to provide an informative, entertaining resource for each listener's own mission of musical discovery.

Our goal is to spread the sound and story of music through radio syndication, to as many people as possible... and help get them more deeply into the music.

Al Neff is a 30+-year radio veteran who has been refining the Into the Music concept for the past decade. He has a Master's degree in Popular Culture Studies and a black belt in Rock Trivia.

SHOW SCHEDULE:  August 13 to August 18, 2018 

Aug 13 - The Kinks 1

Aug 14 - The Kinks 2

Aug 15 - Cheap Trick

Aug 16 - Van Halen 1

Aug 17 - Van Halen 2

Aug 18 - The Scorpions

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