On Wednesday, March 1o, Bucky Covington was doing a show for WKMK 98.5 in Orange County,  New Jersey. The show as at a place called the Shark Fin. And either the Shark Fin Inn isn’t very big, or Bucky just has far more fans than the radio station anticipated.
I have been to some [...]

Back around the end of January, I told you all about a contest Kraft had organized. The prize, a concert in your town by Love & Theft. The contest — you have to be chosen as the “Single Best Town” in America.
Kraft has now narrowed all the entries down to the final 10, [...]

I think most of us know “Love Like Crazy,” but until recently I couldn’t have told you who sings it. Now I know, Lee Brice. And I think a lot of people have learned his name since the release of that song.
I got a press release yesterday that I wanted to pass on [...]

Steel Magnolia, last year’s winners on the CMT program “Can You Duet,” have the highest charting debut from a male/female country duo in the 66 year history of Billboard’s Top Country Songs Chart. The song, as I’m sure all their fans know, is “Keep on Lovin’ You.”
Josh and Meghan are nominated for Top [...]

I received a press release yesterday. This release is about a benefit concert, this time, the artist is Darius Rucker. I never get tired of hearing about our country artists donating their time and talents to help others. That speaks very highly of each of them.
Darius is doing a concert on June 7, in [...]

The country music community is getting another new baby! Joe Don Rooney, of Rascal Flatts, and his wife, Tiffany Fallon have announced that they are expecting their second baby in September.
Joe Don and Tiffany, who were married in 2006, have one son, Jagger Donovan, who will be two years old in May.
"We’re a [...]

Get ready for the March 15, 2010, Country Weekly magazine. They’ve got Gary Allan on the cover.
Country Weekly’s web site talked about the article in this issue, Garry Allan: “No Regrets: – and here’s what they said:
Gary Allan: “No Regrets”
Gary Allan opens up about moving forward after the biggest tragedy of his life, [...]

I have always liked Dwight Yoakam. Actually,  I’ve always liked country music, and Dwight Yoakam is part of the reason why. I can’t really think about country music without songs like “A Thousand Miles From Nowhere,” “Act Naturally,” and “Little Sister” coming to mind. But these days, Dwight might find himself singing just a [...]

Brad Paisley’s American Saturday Night tour came to an end in Charleston, S.C. on Saturday night. And it didn’t exactly end gracefully for Brad. Brad closed out the show with an encore performance of “Alcohol,” and during his short guitar solo at the end of the song, he ran from the ramp, back onto [...]

Just a few nights ago, I was in one of those UStream video chats with Little Big Town. I love those things. It is really like sitting in the same room with your favorite artists. We type questions, they read them, they answer us. Sometimes the artists on the other side of my computer [...]