SomaFM Boot Liquor

This stream carries Boot Liquor, SomaFM's channel of Americana roots music for cowhands, cowpokes and cowtippers. It mixes folk, Americana, classic country, alt-country, bluegrass, honky-tonk and outlaw songwriters with the gritty edges of rock and roll, with plenty of pedal steel, fiddle, banjo and dobro. It is the sound of dusty roads, back-porch pickers and late nights at the bar, picked with a genuine fondness for the genre rather than for chart hits.

SomaFM is an independent, listener-supported internet radio station that has broadcast from San Francisco since 1999 and plays no commercials. This entry is the high-quality version, an MP3 stream at 320 kbps, the highest bitrate the format supports and one of the best-sounding options for anyone listening on good headphones or a home audio system. It needs more bandwidth than the standard 128 kbps stream, so on a slow or metered mobile connection one of the other versions listed on RadioKite may be a better choice. The artist and title are displayed as each track changes. It is a good companion for road trips, cooking or a quiet evening at home.