Oh, if only the CMA awards could be like college football. Jamey Johnson would beat out Brad Paisley. Miranda Lambert would pull a huge upset against Taylor Swift. Unfortunately, there are no come-from-behind victories at the CMA’s. Most of the “little people” do not even get to compete. So, I am going to appease the [...]
Well, are you ready for it? Here is some country music news coming at you faster than Mel Gibson can chug a bottle of Jose Cuervo.
You might want to stroll on down to Nashville this week on Thursday, Oct. 8. This will be the night for real country music to shine through. The night’s focus [...]
Alright ladies…it’s that time of year again to pick the hottest man in country music. CMT has it narrowed down to Trace Adkins, Dierks Bentley, Luke Bryan, Kenny Chesney, Jack Ingram, Tim McGraw, Jake Owen, Brad Paisley, Blake Shelton, Keith Urban, and Chuck Wicks.
Trace Adkins is a tall drink of water originally from Springhill, [...]
Rascal Flatts is getting geared up for their summer tour. Guess who will be joining them as a sponsor? Yes, J.C. Penney Company…but there is another sponsor along for the ride on the Unstoppable tour. Hershey’s chocolate will be sponsoring the Flatt boys. I would be excited about Flatts and their new tour except for [...]
I guess who ever came up with the saying ‘third time’s a charm’ didn’t know Mac McAnally. The Alabama native has had reasonable success. Unfortunately, it has been reduced to a footnote to make room for those who have made it commercially. For the ones that are familiar with Mac, you are already aware of [...]
Is Country Music’s most popular magazine being hurt by the declining economy? The buzz around town, is that Country Weekly will cut all subscriptions and will only be sold exclusively at the newsstand. This is an 80% decrease in circulation. Adage.com is estimating sales of 75,000 copies per issue at the newsstand. They are also decreasing the content and lowering the newsstand [...]
The CMA results are in so let’s see if I made the right predictions from one of my previous blogs. Well for the most part my predictions were right, with the exception of Single of the Year. Here’s a rundown of my predictions and how they lined up with the results.
Top Female Vocalist: I said [...]
Today I was looking at the list of nominees for this year’s 42nd Country Music Awards. As usual I am not surprised by this year’s nominees and as as usual I am going to make my predictions. Last year Top Female Vocalist went to Carrie Underwood, rightfully so, in my opinion. This year I think [...]