Driving through Texas from Florida to Colorado, I wound up finding 95.9 The Ranch FM out of the DFW area. I stayed with that station until he signal faded. I couldn't believe the great music I was hearing, stuff I'd never heard before! I was introduced to Hays Carll, Turnpike Troubadours, Ryan Bingham, Randy Rogers, Whisky Myers, Drive-by Truckers, and countless other "Red Dirt", "Texas" or "Outlaw" country acts; the music I used to call "Americana" and straight-up southern rock. This was stuff that I'd never heard played on the local "Top 40" country stations.
I quickly became a fan, built a few Pandora stations around these acts, and had my ears opened to a whole new style of guitar-based music that I had been longing for. These days it is almost all I listen to.