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. [...]

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, [...]

(Nashville, Tennessee…) — Randy Owen, lead singer of the legendary group Alabama, has teamed up with HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, to release his autobiography Born Country. Written with Allen Rucker, who also co-authored books by country stars Gretchen Wilson and Big & Rich, among others, Born Country and Owen’s debut solo album One [...]

Jake Owen’s web page says that since the age of 12, he wanted to be a professional golfer. “I was determined golf was going to be my life,” Owen said in the “About” section of his site. He stopped playing golf when he was injured in an accident, and it was then he picked up [...]