After seemingly avoiding anything that sounded remotely like Country music since they debuted last December, Magic 99 is now the only station in town (I haven't checked Big Earl or CISN) playing "This is Us" in frequent rotation. The song was actually recorded around 1999, but was removed from a duets album that Mark Knopfler did at the time, because he wanted to do an entire album with Emmylou Harris. It took 6 years for them both to find time to put the songs together and record them. The album was released April 25, 2006.
I'm not a Country fan, so I thought it was Dolly Parton when I first heard it, but I really like the song from when I first heard it a couple of weeks ago.
All very interesting because, as I see it, at the time that Magic 99 debuted last December, Easy Rock went out of their way to promote the fact that they played some Country songs (which they'd started several months earlier). But Magic 99 clearly avoided (even the hint of) the genre all together.
Now Magic 99 is playing this, and I've yet to hear it on Easy Rock.