That changed in 2009 when Calvary Chapel purchased a defunct Christian AM radio station, KGDP in Oildale, California and renamed it KWVE, simulcasting the FM signal into the Bakersfield area.
On July 12, 2010, Simpson went on stage in Oildale and performed a song by Merle Haggard with Jason Lytle, the former frontman of Grandaddy.