While in Nashville working on his third country album for Capitol Records Nashville last week, Darius Rucker was in especially high spirits with the anticipation of celebrating his fifth No. 1 single, “This,” from his sophomore album, Charleston, SC 1966.  Steve Hodges/Capitol, Marc Driskill/ASCAP, Frank Rogers, Darius Rucker, Ron Stuve/UMPG, Cyndi Forman/UMPG, Mike Dungan/Capitol. Photo [...]

I was out of the office much of the day. That nature of the business. Anyway, in addition to all of the newspaper stuff I had to do, I also had a doctor appointment, and it was drizzling all day, and we didn’t have much sun at all – and I didn’t want to be [...]

Pictured (L-R) are BMI’s Jody Williams, Republic Nashville’s Jimmy Harnen, The Band Perry’s Neil, Kimberly and Reid Perry, BMLG’s Scott Borchetta and BMI’s Clay Bradley. Photo Credit: Rick Diamond Celebrating The Band Perry’s continued success, BMI and Republic Nashville hosted a party this week to commemorate both a two-week #1 single and Platinum album. The [...]

Trick Pony was a long time ago. I saw them – Keith and Ira and Heidi – at the Appalachian Fair in Gray, Tenn. In fact, I have one of Ira’s towels – thanks for tossing that out into the crowd, Ira. I’m not usually the world’s best catcher, but I got that one. I [...]

……Red Solo Cup #1, Time Magazine touts Love This Bar chain (Click on the X in the sign above to go to the site to cast your vote) What do Usher, Bruno Mars and Justin Bieber have in common? They all join singer, songwriter and entertainer Toby Keith as nominees for Favorite Male Singer at [...]