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Joe Baker's Backforty Bunkhouse Show
KNMB, 96.7 FM, "New Mexico’s Bear"
& KWMW, 105.1 FM, "W-105"
6 To 10AM, Every Saturday Morning
Ruidoso, New Mexico
Both Stations 100,000 Watts


KWMW - WMA's 2007 Radio Station of the year!!!
KNMB - WMA's 2006 Radio Station of the year!!!

Academy of Western Artists 2004 Western Music Disc Jockey of the Year
Cowtown Society of Western Music (CSWM) 2004 Disc Jockey of the Year
CSWM Hall of Fame Inductee-Fort Worth, Texas 2004
Western Swing Music Society of the Southwest Hall of Fame Inductee 2007
Seattle Western Swing Music Society Hall of Fame 2008




For those of us who love the romance of the "western lifestyle," Joe Baker perpetuates this unique form of Americana. With his slow southern drawl and a tip of his hat, he will make you feel as if you were having a cup of coffee with him by a flickerin' campfire when you tune in to his "Backforty Bunkhouse Show" airing on “New Mexico’s Bear” and “W-105” in Ruidoso, New Mexico.

Joe's radio show is broadcast throughout all the western states and is strickly "western." The show is reminiscent of radio programs that aired in the 40's and 50's. He plays requests, holds contests weekly, giving away new CD's & Tee-shirts or backstage passes to concerts and has a diverse and loyal listening audience. He is helping to preserve this art form by promoting it and his younger listeners are proof of that.

Born and raised in Mineral Wells, Joe is not your typical Disc Jockey. His first radio program on radio station KYXS in Mineral Wells/Weatherford, Texas was called "Horse Sense on the Finish Line" where he handicapped racehorses for Lone Star Park in their inaugural and second season. Next, he had a documentary show called "Horse Sense on the Cutting Edge" which traced the roots of the cutting horse in Parker county, Texas. The Backforty Bunkhouse Show began at KWES Radio in Ruidoso on June, 2001 until March, 2003, when he joined MTD Broadcasting, Inc. The umbrella over radio stations KNMB / KWMW / KIDX / KTUM and KRUI.

KNMB, 96.7 FM, "New Mexico’s Bear" and KWMW, 105.1FM are both 100,000 Watt stations, with studios in Ruidoso, New Mexico. His Backforty Bunkhouse Show airing every Saturday morning from 6AM to 10AM on "New Mexico’s Bear" and Regional Radio “W-105!” reports to the Texas Music Charts, Academy of Western Artists – Sunset Charts and CCMA Indie Charts.

He was nominated for Disc Jockey of the Year in 2002 and 2003 by the Academy of Western Artists and KNMB, 96.7FM, “New Mexico’s Bear” nominated for Radio Station of the Year in 2004. In 2004 he was awarded Academy of Western Artist's Will Rogers Award for disc jockey of the year, the Cowtown Society of Western Music disc jockey of the year and was inducted into the Cowtown Society of Western Music Hall of Fame. He has been featured in numerous magazines and other publications throughout the United States and Canada. He is also a member of the Western Music Broadcasters Association (WMBA) and formerly on the board of directors for the Western Music Association. He is currently membership director for the Cowtown Society of Western Music.

Joe is a Co-Founder of the only Western Music Radio Chart published not only nationally, but internationally through Power Source Magazine (a monthly periodical) in Nashville, Tennessee. There has never been a western music chart directed solely towards western music in the history of the western music genre until January, 2005.


 Backforty Bunkhouse July 12, 2008 Radio Show
Commercial Free (Except ours of course)
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Hour 1

Approx 47 minutes:  
  • Hank Stone - Your Jealousy
  • Johnny Lyon - You Took Her Off My Hands
  • Craig Chambers - Bluebonnet Lady
  • John England - I'm Looking High & Low For My Baby
  • Red Steagall - I Left The Best Part of Texas In Tennessee
  • Johnny Bush/Justin Trevino - Nothing Quite Like Texas On A Saturday Night
  • Billy Mata - Gotta Keep'em Moving Along
  • Time Jumpers - Stomping At The Station
  • Curtis Potter - If This Was Texas
  • Jody Nix - Play Me Something I Can Swing To
  • Cody Dodson/Ginny Mac - Looking Over My Shoulder
  • Jerry Webb - Red Lips
  • Tommy Alverson/Johnny Bush - Anytime, Anywhere
Hour 2

Approx 46 minutes:  
  • Brady Bowen & Swing Country (Derwood Strube Vocals) - Take Back Your Old Love Letters
  • Nolan Bruce Allen - If No News Is Good News
  • Ed Burleson - Sorry For Nothing But You
  • Johnny Western - Medley
  • Asleep At The Wheel - Last Meal
  • Jenna Lee - He Said So Long
  • Johnny Rodriguez - Corpus Christi Bay
  • Wayne Glasson/Kathy Wolf - Old Fashioned Love
  • Cornell Hurd - Tired Of Wanting Something I Can't Have
  • Cody Nicolas - Cowboy Peyton Place
  • Cornell Hurd - Either the Whisky Or The Wife
  • Justin Trevino - I'm The Man
  • Desperados - Lyla Lou
Hour 3

Approx 45 minutes:  
  • Asleep At The Wheel - This Old Cowboy
  • Dan Roberts - Everybody's Saddle
  • Carl Smith - Deep Water
  • Ray Price - City Lights
  • Willie P Richardson - Pulpit Committee
  • Hank Stone - Are You Sure
  • Johnny Lyon - One More Memory
  • Bob Wills - Milk Cow Blues
  • Bob Wills - Sitting On Top of the World
  • Leon Rausch - Faded Love
  • Michael Hunt - Some Sunny Day
  • Brady Bowen & Swing Country (Joe Paul Clark Vocals) - Heart of A Clown
     
     
     
Hour 4

Approx 48 minutes:  
  • Gene Watson - Everybody Needs A Hero
  • Robert Weeks - Greensleves
  • Cody Dodson - When You Leave Amarillo
  • Lonnie Spiker - Lonelier Than This
  • Kelly Spinks - Is This All There Is To A Honky Tonk
  • Johnny Bush - The Last Time I'll Ever Cheat On You
  • Brady Bowen & Swing Country (Derwood Strube Vocals) - Who Will Buy The Wine
  • Dugg Collins & Brazos Valley Boys - Milk Cow Blues
  • Rebecca Linda Smith - Texas And Tennessee
  • Ben Chesney - It's Been Too Long
  • Lone Star Troubadours (Larry Lange Vocals) - I Just Destroyed The World I'm Living In
  • Brian Burns - Pink Flamingo
  • Mark Chestnut - The Lord Loves A Drinking Man
  • Darrell McCall - It Took Us All Night Long To Say Goodbye



 Backforty Bunkhouse July 5, 2008 Radio Show
Commercial Free (Except ours of course)
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Hour 1

Approx 47 minutes:  
  • Brady Bowen & Swing Country (C B Sutton Vocals) - Faded Love
  • Johnny Lyon - You Took Her Off My Hands
  • Mel Tillis - Heart Over Mind
  • Leon Rausch - Sitting On Top of the World
  • Lynn Ward - My Life's Been A Pleasure
  • Curtis Potter - Heart of A Clown
  • Craig Chambers - Prairie Serenade
  • Randy Brown - Cuttin' A Rug
  • Jerry Webb - I Love A Texas Honky Tonk
  • Oklahoma Swing Project - Deep Water
  • Dugg Collins - Think of Me When A Fool Is Talked About
  • Jimmy Rivers - The Rose Room
     
     
Hour 2

Approx 47 minutes:  
  • Bobby Flores - South of the Border
  • Bobby Flores - Bubbles In My Beer
  • Gene Autry - Back In the Saddle Again
  • Chris LaDeaux - 5 Dollar Fine For Whining
  • Desperados - Spanish Two Step
  • Gil Prather - Professional Fool
  • Carl Vaughn - Yours Forever
  • Brian Burns - Pink Flamingo
  • Myra Pearce - Drag Your Own Wagon
  • Scotty & The Silverscreen Ranchands - Wild Horse
  • Kelly Spinks - Is This All There Is To A Honky Tonk
  • Open Range - Swingtime In The Rockies
  • Brady Bowen - From A Jack To A King
  • Leon Rausch - Big Beaver
Hour 3

Approx 43 minutes:  
  • Dan Roberts - Horse Trading
  • Minnie Pearl - Picture Show & More
  • Hank Stone - Summer Wind
  • Billy Keeble - Neon Sun
  • Carolyn Martin - Sugar
  • Lone Star Troubdours (Larry Lange Vocals) - Dance With Who Brung You
  • Rebecca Linda Smith - Texas And Tennessee
  • Texas Playboys - In The Mood
  • Gene Watson - Memories To Burn
  • Jody Nix - You Took Her Off My Hands
  • David Ball - Desert Luau
  • Desperados - Beaumont Rag
     
Hour 4

Approx 48 minutes:  
  • Red Steagall - Lone Star Beer & Bob Wills Music
  • Brain Burns - Raining In Juarez
  • Billy Mata & Texas Tradition - Texas Homesick Blues
  • Ray Price - Don't You Ever Get Tired of Hurting Me
  • Asleep At The Wheel - Route 66
  • John England - The Kind of Love
  • Curtis Potter - Chicago Dancing Girls
  • Craig Chambers - Before There Was Mesquite
  • Mark Chestnut - Beer, Bait & Ammo
  • Ben Chesney - Love Never Dies
  • Charlie O'Bannon - Search Every Honky Tonk
  • Brady Bowen & Swing Country (Derwood Strube Vocals) - Grits & Gravy Blues
  • Flying J Wranglers - New Mexico


 Backforty Bunkhouse June 14, 2008 Radio Show
Commercial Free (Except ours of course)
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Hour 1

Approx 48 minutes:  
  • Shawn Allen - Walk On My Heart
  • Bob Wills - Bluebonnet Lane
  • Jerry Webb - Turn To The Wine
  • Wylie & Wild West - Yodeling Fool
  • Frenchie Burke - Jole Blon
  • Curtis Potter - Your Favorite Fool
  • Cindy Nix Wright - Sugar Moon
  • Curtis Potter - Shenandoah
  • Johnny Lyon - You Don't Care What Happens To Me
  • Country Night Live (Dale Morris Vocals) - Don't You Ever Get Tired of Hurting Me
  • Mack Abernathy - Everybody In Ft Worth Says Hello
  • Mary Allen-Keating - Put A Little Texas In Your Swing
  • Country Night Live (Chuck Cusimano Vocals) - Heartbreak Town
  • Rusty & Dory Dutton - Along The Navajo Trail
Hour 2

Approx 48 minutes:  
  • Steve Wood - I'm Right Where She Left Me
  • Darrell McCall - Coming Home to Face the Music
  • Bobby Flores - Bubbles In My Beer
  • Toby Keith - I Should Have Been A Cowboy
  • Dan Roberts - Swing Til' We Can't See Straight
  • Charlie Daniels - My Baby Plays Me Like A Fiddle
  • Pistol River - Back In Sante Fe
  • Jeff Griffith - It Ain't The Clothes That Make The Man
  • Dugg Collins - Another Bridge To Burn
  • Pee Wee Whitewing - You Can't Break My Heart
  • Billy Mata & Texas Tradition - Across The Alley From The Alamo
  • David Ball - The Thought of You
  • Brady Bowen & Swing Country - Silver Dew On the Bluegrass
     
     
Hour 3

Approx 37 minutes:  
  • Brady Bowen & Swing Country (Derwood Strube Vocals) - An Empty Bottle
  • Bobby Boatright & Friends - Country Medley
  • Mark Chestnut - Somebody Save the Honky Tonks
  • Brit Hammond - When You Dance With Me
  • Billy Keeble - When She Does Me Right
  • Johnny Lyon - You Took Her Off My Hands
  • Desperados - Lila Lou
  • Cody Widner - Drinking Doubles
  • Gary Stewart - Empty Glass
  • Lawrence Bishop - Cowboy Up
Hour 4

Approx 47 minutes:  
  • Dugg Collins & Brazos Valley Boys - Milk Cow Blues
  • Lone Star Troubadours - Medley
  • Leon Rausch - Big Beaver
  • Oklahoma Swing Project - Oklahoma Waltz
  • Oklahoma Swing Project - San Antonio Rose
  • Oklahoma Swing Project - Faded Love
  • Oklahoma Swing Project - Time Changes Everything
  • Bobby Flores - South of the Border
  • Brady Bowen & Swing Country (Derwood Strube Vocals) - Grits & Gravy Blues
     



What Folks Are Sayin' About Joe Baker's
Backforty Bunkhouse Show"


Thank you so much for all you are doin' to keep Western Swingin' in beautiful Ruidoso! Ray Reed would be so proud of you, as we all are. Keep doin' what your doin'....it's important.....

Barbara Martin, Publisher-Western Swing Monthly


Joe Baker's Backforty Bunkhouse Show features music that lots of folks have been hungerin' for. I personally have noticed a surge of popularity of this type of format over the past few years!............

Pete Laumbach, Western Music Songwriter/Performer, Hope, New Mexico


I enjoy listenin' to your Backforty Bunkhouse Show on "New Mexico's Bear!" I like the old time country music I used to listen to when I was a kid. Keep up the good work that you do........

Tom Sullivan, Former Lincoln County Sheriff


If every disc jockey played the good music that Joe plays, The world would be a much better place, Joe knows his music!...

Wylie Gustufson, Wylie & The Wild West, Dusty, WA.


Thanks to you Joe, Western Swing is Swingin' up in Ruidoso, you have one great show....

Curtis Potter, AWA WSMVY-02, Abilene, TX


I know Western Swing means as much to you as it does us, keep up the great work and the promoting that you do for all of us........

JD Barham, Cowjazz


Joe, You have a great show, you will do Western Music good.....

Don Edwards, Western Performer, Weatherford, TX.


It was good seein' you in Fort Worth, I can't say enough of how much your support means to me and to Western Music.......

Joni Harms, AWA 2002 Entertainer of the Year, Canby, OR


Thanks for invitin' me on the Backforty Bunkhouse! You have a great show and we need more of 'em......

......Red Steagall, Western Performer, Azle, Tx


We appreciate what you do for Western Swing and Western Music! Show's like yours are hard to find these days........

Ted Scanlon & The Desperado's, Las Cruces, NM


Great show, We couldn't keep the radio loud enough while in Cloudcroft this week-end........
Hon. Gary Johnson, Former Governor of New Mexico


We need more radio show's like yours, I truly enjoyed being on The Backforty Bunkhouse.......

Mike Blakely, Songwriter, Performer, Author, Marble Falls, TX


Joe, Your dedication to the music that you love and the support you give is just great, Thank you for your support and see you down the musical trail....

Ginny Mac, Performer/Songwriter, Ft. Worth, TX


I love making your life miserable!

Baxter Black, The most popular cowboy poet in the world, Benson, Arizona


The best country show in Lincoln County! Joe Baker really keeps his listeners informed and entertained......

Sam Donaldson, ABC News, Washington, DC


I’ll give you a CD, you make me a star!

Dennis Flynn, award winning cowboy poet, Azle, Texas


Dust off your hat, shine up your boots, and get ready for 4 hours of the best classic country, western swing and cowboy music to hit the airwaves since the 40's because Joe Baker's Backforty Bunkhouse Show is "On The Air" and the urge to dance will hit you any minute! Thanks for playin' the Best music in the world......

Robin Deeter, Performer, AWA-WSFVY, 2002, Seattle, WA


Your show is SUPER GREAT, we need more folks like you.....

...........Narvel Felts, Performer, Malden, MO


Thanks for having me on your show, it was "Awesome"!

............Annie B. Performer, Nashville, TN


Your show is like a four wheeler, loads of fun. Thanks for having me on your show.

Chris Issacs, (The cowboy Poet) Award winning cowboy poet, Arizona.


Thanks for all you do with the western music industry, without folks like you, there wouldn’t be a need for us!

Dan Roberts, Award winning Entertainer of the year, Aledo, Texas


I really enjoyed being on the Backforty Bunkhouse show, you play our kind of music, keep it up…………………………………………….

Cody Lambert, Co-Founder PBR


I know all the western and swing music people appreciate you for all you do to promote them, however, you also do a lot for cowboy poetry and the whole Western Entertainment family. Thank you for all you do!

Yvonne Hollenbeck, Award winning cowboy poet on a cattle Ranch somewhere amist the great state of South Dakota


I heard your show this summer while at Ruidoso Downs Racetrack and really liked what you play and your knowledge of music, very informative. I’ll always look forward to coming to Ruidoso.

Hon. Bill Richardson, Governor of New Mexico


It’s always a treat for me to see you when we come to Ruidoso, your radio show is one of a kind.

Hon Bill Richardson, New Mexico Governor


I enjoyed your show, reminds me of my days in Amarillo. Keep up the good work.

Steve Stucker, KOB TV, Albuquerque, NM



Joe is an avid fan of western swing, Texas honkytonk classic country and cowboy music and can fill you in on the oldest to latest happenins' in these fields of music. He also takes pride in that he has had a helping hand in many indie artists establish their musical careers. If you would like to be interviewed and have your CD played on the Backforty Bunkhouse show, contact Joe by phone or email to arrange dates, etc.


Below is a sampling of different established and indie artists Joe has interviewed on his Backforty Bunkhouse Show (List is in no particular order).
Don Edwards, Live River Road Boys, Live Bill Adams, Live Floyd Domino, Phone
Robin Deeter, Phone Bobby Newton, Live Mike Gross, Phone Mike Blakely, Live
John Hargett, Live Charlie Daniels, Phone Dugg Collins, Phone Myra Pearce, Phone
Jimmy Burson, Live "Hawkeye" Henson, Live Pete Laumbach, Live Alan Autry, Phone
Ray Benson, Phone Flying J Wranglers, Live Tommy Lucas, Phone Rockin' M Wranglers, Live
Rockin' W Wranglers, Phone Jill Jones, Phone Joni Harms, Phone T.J. Casey, Phone
Narvel Felts, Phone Johnny Duncan, Phone Ian Tyson, Phone Johnny Rodriguez, Live
Curtis Potter, Live Leon Rausch, Phone Bill Gilbert, Phone Dale Robertson, Phone
Baxter Black, Phone Terry Bullard, Live Joe Merrick, Live Pee Wee Whitewing, Phone
Ted Scanlon, Phone Ted Scanlon, Live Red Steagall, Live Danny Steagall, Live
Dan Roberts, Phone Dennis Flynn, Live Steve Schick, Live New West, Phone
Mended Heart, Phone Wylie Gustufson, Phone Billy Mata, Live Dave Alexander, Phone
Dave Alexander, Live Jason Roberts, Phone Hoot Hester, Phone Tom Morrell, Live
Peggy Rains, Phone Mark Abbott, Phone Belinda Gail, Phone Janet McBride, Phone
Brenn Hill, Phone Jeff Hildebrandt, Phone Jesse Mullins, Phone Kip Calahan, Phone
Annie B., Live Jo Hargrave, Phone Larry McWhorter, Phone Andy Wilkerson, Live
David Cline, Phone Greg Hardy, Phone Joe Paul Nichols, Live Tony Douglas, Phone
Jimmy Eaves, Phone Claude Gray, Phone Syd Masters, Live Heather Myles, Phone
J.W. Beeson, Live Al Brumley, Jr., Phone Ricky Boen, Phone John T. Wills, Phone
Dayna Wills, Phone Harold Hill, Phone Jim Gough, Phone Carl Vaughan, Phone
Rick Robledo, Phone Leon Autry, Live Saddlestrings, Phone Debra Coppinger Hill, Phone
Patty Clayton, Phone Ann J. Morton, Phone Jim & Jeanne Martin, Live Leroy Van Dyke, Live
Peggy Rains, Live Doug & Pauline, Live Kata Hay, Live Tommy Wiggins, Live
John Payne, Live Eddy Harrison, Live Russell Ray, Live Randy Ray ( KACT) Live
Julie Carter, Live Dale Wood, Live Rhonda Mc Dowell (Sisters of the Silversage) Live Bobby Flores, Live
Tommy Allsup, Live Larry Scott, Live Mike O’Daniel, Live Reid Wells, Live
David Cline, Live Randy Ray, Live