Dial in Lebanon’s WANT 98.9 on Saturday nights and let the silky voice of Fred Burton — his nom du disc is “Fantastic Fred Anthony” — take you back. Burton is also a Lebanon city councilman, because of course, and he conducts the ring-county soul train for five glorious hours every weekend. He also tells tales from decades as a DJ — of nights with James Brown and sweaty record hops on Jefferson Street — and he’s not afraid to throw his own rhymes on top of The Temptations and Earth, Wind & Fire. Requests pour in, and Fred fields ’em all. He can make even bucolic Watertown sound as sultry as a slow jam when he shouts out to “The Liquid City” with his smooth baritone. Oh — did we mention this is a country station?
