Subject: Her love was a habit and I tried to kick it
Her love was a habit and I tried to kick it
July 12th, 2023 at 5:23 pm PDTa glimpse at 'Janie Baker' View onlineLast week we wrote of Arthur Alexander whose sound originated out of northern Alabama and influenced the music world: from southern rock, to R B, to country, and soul. The Beatles loved Alexander and included on ...
When I say forever, I mean forever
July 11th, 2023 at 5:58 pm PDTAppreciating the late Chris LeDoux View onlineYesterday we wrote about Garth Brooks and mentioned the great Chris LeDoux. The quintessential Wyoming cowboy, LeDoux was the PRCA World Champion Bareback Bronco rider in 1976. In 1969, LeDoux won the n ...
Much too old ... to feel so young (again)
July 10th, 2023 at 3:00 pm PDTwhat's the legacy of Garth Brooks? View onlineGarth Brooks wasn't a huge country music fan growing up, reportedly preferring the soft-rocking of Don McLean, Dan Fogelberg, and James Taylor as a youngster. The music from Fogelberg and Taylor is often ...
Couldn't roll me a 7 if you gave me loaded dice
July 7th, 2023 at 3:48 pm PDTThe lady or Reno? Either way I lose View onlineDoug Supernaw was a college golfer in the late 1970s, but dropped out of school in 1979, working on an oil rig and serving as a concert promoter for a while before starting in earnest on a career as a T ...
Let's just go on home, have some onion rings and watch TV
July 6th, 2023 at 4:49 pm PDTDinner and a movie View onlineSammy Kershaw released Queen of my Double-Wide Trailer on August 23, 1993. It was Kershaw's third single off the album Haunted Heart and reached No. 7 on Billboard's US Hot Country Songs. Kershaw's narrator loses his Q ...
Paint it (John Deere) green, boy!
July 5th, 2023 at 5:15 pm PDTthe whole town said he should have used red View onlineWe’ve been writing, though not entirely specifically, about songwriter Dennis Linde so far this week. Joe Diffie’s 1994 smash “John Deere Green” was just one of Linde’s hits. The tale ...
Fireworks are legal today
July 4th, 2023 at 4:41 pm PDTon Twitter, apparently View onlineSocial media thrives on rankings and lists. A fellow I never “followed” but showed up a lot on my Twitter feed thanks to mutual “friends” and followers decided to post something about best and worst preside ...
You better move on
July 4th, 2023 at 10:17 am PDTjust the title of Arthur Alexander's great hit song View onlineArthur Alexander is now a largely forgotten artist. He died in 1993 at age 53. In what may have been his prime years, Alexander had left the music industry entirely, choosing to become a ...