After previously honoring Reba McEntire and Hank Williams Jr., CMT is staging its third tribute concert in honor of Alan Jackson: Alan Jackson will be honored in the third installment of CMT Giants airing Dec.
My new car came with a three-month free preview of XM Radio, and I am loving it. I’ve always been the type to listen to CD’s in the car, which evolved into listening to my
Relationships are tricky business. I’ve got to think country music knows that better than any other art form. Here in the real world, we tend to talk about our relationships with others in simple terms:
The CMA Awards are the ultimate pageant in country music. Each fall, the Country Music Association nominates a slate of country music’s most popular performers and assembles this A-level talent to provide country music fans
After enjoying Patrick Nichols’ great article on the 9513 about Ray Benson and Asleep at the Wheel and Willie Nelson, I recalled a cute story I read years ago…. Back in 2000, when the Dixie
Earlier this evening, I was driving to work with the iPod on shuffle. On came Rodney Crowell’s “This Too Will Pass”, from his album Fate’s Right Hand. It was like hearing the song for the
Chet Flippo is wondering when the songs about the current economic crisis will arrive: Is anyone writing soundtrack songs for an America running helplessly headlong toward ruin? I’m not going to attempt to go into
Apparently, country music is the place to be right now! Who isn’t releasing a country album these days? I read just this week that Kevin Costner (yes, that Kevin Costner) is coming out with a
Today is the final day of eligibility for the Grammy awards. Albums and singles must have been released between October 1, 2007 and September 30, 2008 to be considered. Also, tracks from Vince Gill’s These
I’m in an even more upbeat mood than usual today, having just purchased a new car for the first time. I was twenty when I bought my first used car down in Tennessee. I got