Ray Davis Celebrates 60 years on the air!

On May 2, 1948 — on his 15th birthday– Ray Davis ventured away from Wango, Maryland to take his first radio job at WDOV-AM in Dover, Delaware. Sixty years later, he’s still at it! And we congratulate our own Ray Davis of Bluegrass Country on this milestone 60th Anniversary in Broadcasting!

Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton read into the Congressional Record in part:

Davis provides area bluegrass fans and online listeners worldwide with a daily dose of the traditional American art form, from prison songs and “plum pitiful” tunes to the great train rides–and train wrecks–of bluegrass music, all delivered with Davis’ encyclopedic knowledge of the artists and the music. More than a DJ, Ray Davis is both a musicologist and an archivist who takes listeners on a stroll down bluegrass music’s memory lane.

Currently you can hear The Ray Davis Show LIVE every weekday from 3-6 p.m. (EDT) and on Sundays from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. (EDT).

To request a song, ask Ray a question, or just say “Congrats!”, send an email. Read the press release.