Country Radio Hour
Bristol, VA

Featuring Bill and the Belles, Linda and David Lay, and Elizabeth Laprelle and Elsa Howell

In the 1940s and the 1950s, Farm and Fun Time® was a critically important radio program in Southwest Virginia and the surrounding region that helped to establish the careers of numerous legendary performers including Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, the Stanley Brothers, the Osborne Brothers, Mac Wiseman, The Blue Sky Boys, and many more. Musicians both famous and barely known traveled from far and wide for their chance to perform live at the studios of WCYB in Bristol on Farm and Fun Time®, airing every weekday morning, mixing farm and weather reports with “hillbilly music” for rural listeners across Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and West Virginia.