He has a sense of humor, he loves what he’s doing, he appreciates the fans who buy his CDs and come to see his shows. And they come from everywhere!  At Joe Nichols show in Gray, Tenn., last night he had fans from Arkansas, Indiana, North and South Carolina, Virginia, and probably a few states [...]

I guess there’s always a fair somewhere. Around here we have them in July, August and September… in Greeneville, Gray and Knoxville, Tenn., Abingdon, Wise and Lebanon, Va., and Maggie Valley, Cary and Charlotte, N.C., just to name a few of them.  I start getting really excited about fairs sometime around the beginning of May. [...]

Miranda Lambert is about to start out on her first headlining tour, “Roadside Bars & Pink Guitars. The tour will open on March 18,, in Beckley, W.Va. and will run through June 5, with the last show scheduled for New Braunsfels, Texas. And she’s got quite a group of country artists who will be in [...]

On Tuesday night, Feb. 9, 2010, I went to Nashville to attend the first-ever Country Music is Love benefit show for the City of Hope. The folks over at CMIL did a great job organizing this show. The event included great performances by 10 artists, an auction to win a date with the Carter Twins, [...]

I absolutely love Jake Owen. That’s not the first time I’ve said that, and I’m sure it won’t be the last. The several times I have seen Jake do a show, he was just fantastic. He has so much personality, and it is so very obvious that he loves every minute he spends on stage. [...]