The O'Leary Letter

When I say forever, I mean forever

Appreciating 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)

what'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

The 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

Dinner 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!

the 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

on 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

just 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 ...

Paul is not dead

The goal is to be an 'embarrassment to the family'

Not an epistle about RFK, Jr. View onlineI failed to mention last week that one of my all-time heroes completed yet another trip around the sun. At one point, he had his entire life going for him: A track field standout and star player in college f ...

The value of independent thinking?

The jury is out View onlineWe live in a culture that pretends to champion individuals thinking for themselves. This is a supposed cultural value. We all were told to think for ourselves in school. However, when one breaks free from the hive-mind an ...