With raging guitar riffs and lyrics that make up the soundtrack of summer, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s widespread influence is undeniable. Country Music’s most authentic voices pay tribute to the legendary southern rockers and their enduring legacy with Sweet Home Alabama – The Country Music Tribute To Lynyrd Skynyrd. Balancing the band’s bedrock Southern Rock and Outlaw [...]

Darius Rucker unofficially kicked-off the 2010 CMA Music Festival on Monday, June 7 with his inaugural “Darius and Friends” St. Jude benefit concert.  The event, which featured performances by Radney Foster, Randy Houser, Jamey Johnson, and Jake Owen, successfully sold-out the Wildhorse Saloon in downtown Nashville, raising $48,720 for St. Jude cancer research. Upon hearing [...]

I told you all about Ashley Ray back on Nov. 11, 2009, when I put up an article about her single “Dirt Cheap”, which she recorded with Mike Eli from Eli Young Band.That article can be found here.  Now, Ashley is getting ready to release her first 5 Song EP. That will happen on Tuesday, [...]

One of my readers put a comment on my post about Randy Houser and Chris Young being on the schedule at our Washington County Fair in Abingdon, Va., this fall. That comment was to tell me that we’re getting Jamey Johnson, too! How cool is this! I went to Jamey’s web site and checked it [...]

I remember the very first time I read something about the Texas Music Hall of Fame, and the Oklahoma Hall of Fame, and the …. well, you get the idea. I don’t know why it just never dawned on me that these things were in a whole lot of states. Whenever I think “Country Music [...]