As I told you all at the end of yesterday’s post, I’m actually not home. I’ve been on vacation since Wednesday morning. This will be the last you’ll hear from me until at least Tuesday, Nov. 2. I didn’t want to stop writing for a few days, without first telling you all to have a [...]

If you ever want to find out if someone can really sing, ask them to sing our National Anthem. And ask them to do it with no musical accompaniment.  It’s  really a hard song to sing. But so far, I think every country artist I’ve heard sing it has done really well. Carrie Underwood and [...]

I actually like Halloween. I know, I’m usually the one making fun of the costume-clad candy beggars, but I really do like the holiday. Some of those kids are so cute, some are trying to scare us to death, and some … well, some just come for the Snickers bar. I read an article at [...]

Anyone out there  in the Northeast Tennessee, Southwest Virginia or Western North Carolina area who needs something fun to do on Friday night Oct. 29? I’ve got something for you! Brantley Gilbert will be on stage at Capone’s in Johnson City, beginning at 8 p.m. A lot of you may remember when I did a [...]

Let me start this out by saying that I do not only write about country artists that I like. It just seems that ones I like so much keep giving me more reasons to write about them. Love and Theft are another example of that. I think they’re a great group … they had me [...]