Alt-country, honky-tonk and blues for the long drive.
KFAT takes its name and spirit from the Gilroy station of the same call letters, which Laura Ellen Hopper and Jeremy Lansman put on the air in 1975 after buying a tiny country outlet and moving its transmitter up Loma Prieta. Hopper programmed an eclectic mix that ran from old-time rock and roll and bluegrass to Tex-Mex, Western swing and blues, years before anyone called it Americana, until the call sign went in 1983. Radio Paradise now runs a hand-curated channel under the name.
The channel leans on Americana and alt-country, with Texas honky-tonk, roadhouse blues and a little modern country radio mixed in, long-standing names set against artists still working the road today. Like the other Radio Paradise channels it runs without presenters, every song picked and sequenced by hand by the same small team behind the Main Mix.
Boots optional, twang required.
