The Fergus Buckner Show FM is a radio station featured in Grand Theft Auto. It consists of a single song, from the country music genre.
Description[]
The Fergus Buckner Show FM was a big factor in the explosion of popularity of the first GTA game, its exposure to the media and its word of mouth promotion. According to early GTA developer and sound executive Colin Anderson, "besides the title track I still have a particular soft spot for «The Ballad Of Chapped Lips Calhoun» because it earned us so many column inches in magazine reviews at the time for the sheer ridiculousness of including a country and western track in a computer game".[1]
The station's content consists solely of "The Ballad Of Chapped Lips Calhoun". After the song ends, DJ Fergus Buckner announces he likes the song so much, he's going to play it again, and the cycle repeats. According to the GTA Soundtrack disc, the station is sponsored by Rattler Creek tobacco chew, although the brand is never mentioned on the station or anywhere in the game.
It is the shortest station in GTA, but only the fifth shortest in the GTA series.
Tracklist[]
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25th Anniversary Release[]
On November 28th, 2022, during Grand Theft Auto's 25th Anniversary, Colin Anderson uploaded definitive mixes of the tracks he wrote and recorded for the original game on his official YouTube channel, including "The Ballad Of Chapped Lips Calhoun".
Trivia[]
- Sideways Hank O'Mally (and The Alabama Bottle Boys)'s "The Ballad of Chapped Lip Calhoun" is the N°4 in the Top 5 of Head Radio.
- It also plays in GTA 2 on King 130.7 during Marshall Nash's speech of the escaped convicts and the ident about the American Civil War Veterans.
See Also[]
- K-Rose - a country music radio station in GTA San Andreas.
- Rebel Radio - a country music radio station in GTA V.