Nashville Country: Voices From the Trenches

I read quite a few country music blogs and lately I’ve seen a lot of posts that complain about the current state of country music coming out of Nashville.  I’ve written quite a bit about this myself and more often than not the subject has come up in interviews I’ve conducted with different bands and [...]

Spilling Out Of A Sippy Cup

In my last article I dared to name five songs that I think ruined country music.  They are by no means the only five, they just happen to be the five I despise the most.  The article was re-posted on several sites and spawned hundreds of responses both in agreement and disagreement with not necessarily [...]

Evolution (2009)

If one were to take a good look at me, one could make a few assumptions. One would be that I eat too much of the wrong things and don’t get enough exercise. That assumption would be true but that’s not the one I want to talk about. Ever. If the honky tonk tattoos, band [...]

Wouldn’t It Be Nice (2009)

Recently while while surfing through Amazon.com, I came across a Dale Watson concert video that I had not been previously aware of. I own his other video, “For Fans Only,” that was shot on the road somewhere, I don’t know where, but it”s Dale Watson so it doesn’t matter.