[IRCA] For eastern USA DXers (or anywhere) - is this typical/routine GY reception?

[Stephen Airy <pianoplayer88key@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all ... so almost a couple months ago I caught this...

2012-10-03 02;35 PDT - 1400 KTUC - PL-398mp - (or possibly KCYK)

That
 was, I think, KTUC Tuscon, AZ, about 349 mi / 562 km from me, heading 
94° (reverse 277°).  Or, could it have been KCYK Yuma, AZ, which is 
about 134 mi / 215 km at a heading of 93° / 274°?  KTUC is listed as 
Nostalgia, and KCYK is Country according to Radio-Locator.  I'm leaning 
toward KTUC, as I was often hearing music from the 50s, 60s, etc when 
pointing my radio to the east.  It's possible that KCYK could have 
popped up briefly though.  Interesting thing is, the song is one that 
I've always thought as being similar to some of the upbeat 50s / early 
60s pop music (before the Beatles), but per Wikipedia, apparently it 
came out in like 1975?

I actually started the recording a bit 
after the strength had started to wane somewhat.  A minute or two prior,
 it was a cleaner signal, and was indicating up around a moderately 
solid 50-54 dBµ or so on the Tecsun's signal strength display.  That's a
 strength normally reserved for 50kW clears, and even then only exceeded
 on propagation peaks by nearby directional 50kW stations like KDWN, 
KCBS, KXNT (25kW night), KMIK, whose main lobes are aimed pretty much 
right at me.
In the several days/weeks surrounding that, KKJL San 
Luis Obispo, CA from 274 miles NW, also nostalgia per R-L, was quite 
common, to the point where I was listening to it for the music, not for 
DXing (and it would have been a candidate for a preset on some radios). :) (It was in a deep fade when I recorded that video, though, besides coming from another direction.)

So for you DXers out there ... is that typical routine graveyard DX reception, say, in the eastern states?
Or
 is it even remotely possible (assuming that was KTUC @ 349 mi, not KCYK
 @ 134 mi), that for a few minutes I had a graveyard station coming in 
clearer than some of you regularly receive some "clear" stations even if
 you're the same distance or closer to the transmitter? ;) Could the roles of "graveyard" vs "clear channel" have temporarily been reversed? :)
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