Looks like Little Big Town is going to need a bigger bus this year! Preferably one with a nursery. Congratulations goes out to Karen Fairchild and Jimi Westbrook on the birth of their first child, a son, this past Friday in Nashville, TN. Baby Elijah Dylan Westbrook weighed 7 lbs., 14 oz., and was 19 and ...
Albums. Concerts. Books. Movies. Creating entertainment in all its forms is/was the central tenet of such major stars as Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette, and numerous members of the Country Music Hall of Fame have had their names in the headlines in recent days for essentially doing what they do. Or for contemplating what they do and how they do it. You can add Willie Nelson, Vince Gil...
Recently I played a couple of songs from San Francisco retro rockers The Mother Hips latest long player Pacific Dust for a friend who replied "the seventies called and said they want their sound back." I laughed and couldn't help but agree because if you closed your eyes, you'd swear you had time traveled back to 1976 when AM radio, dune buggies, and bell bottoms reigned supreme. Seven albums and ...
When it came time to shoot a video for his new single, “It’s Just That Way,” Alan Jackson looked no further than his daughter, Mattie, for the video treatment. “The video depicts a backwards reality, with metaphors of nature’s undeniable realities,” wrote Mattie in the treatment she submitted. “[It] illustrates a love that is as pure and ...
One of the biggest hits of 2009 was Jason Aldean’s “Big Green Tractor,” which went to No. 1 for four weeks in the fall and — combined with the power-packed previous single, “She’s Country” — launched his concert sales into a whole new stratosphere. The song, written by 1990s hitmaker David Lee Murphy and Jim Collins, used the tractor as a literary ve...
