October 2, 2008 – 8:35 pm
My company’s promises to me after we decided to remain in Northern Virginia came true today, as I relocated to another building immediately adjacent to the fire trap facility where I’ve spent the last 5+ years.
I’m still doing pretty much the same work, which is cool. We’re not particularly title conscious where I [...]
Boy, 12, faces drunken driving charge after crash
In the heart of this news story beats a country song.
Let’s recap; according to the canonical standard so brilliantly laid out by Steve Goodman and David Allan Coe, we have:
Drunk - check.
Mom - miss.
Prison - Presuming the Division of Youth Services counts, check.
Rain - No [...]
January 9, 2008 – 11:18 pm
It isn’t every day that one awakens, goes to his computer, and is presented with a headline like this:
Talent Scout Ken Nelson Dies at 96.
I made a half-assed tweet1 about the event early today. I don’t mean to make light of Mr. Nelson’s death in any way. I was taken aback at the headline, [...]
November 7, 2007 – 10:20 pm
Hank Thompson, another country singer whose stardom slightly predates my interest in the genre, has passed away at age 82. Hank was yet another one of my grandparent’s favorites, and I doubtless was first exposed to his music at their farmhouse atop a rocky Kansas hill.
I came to like and enjoy Hank’s music, along [...]
November 7, 2007 – 9:51 pm
I totally forgot about the CMA Awards on ABC tonight, and interrupted a perfectly good episode of Alton Brown’s Good Eats to flip the channel.
More’s the pity; I was regaled by Big and Rich, who sang some over-amped, unintelligible-lyric tribute to, of all people, Porter Wagoner. Porter would probably have been most gracious, had he [...]
November 15, 2005 – 10:41 pm
Let’s rename the “Horizon Award” to the “Dust over the Horizon Award”, in honor of those, who after winning the award, were chased off by fans of real country music. Fans carrying tar. And feathers. And listening to their iPod-safe music.
-k-
Technorati Tags: Country Music
November 15, 2005 – 10:10 pm
At the CMAs, in my farewell viewing, that fine ballad by
The Fruit Guys, entitled You Can’t over Love. The closest to country music on the whole show.
Other than that, 3 hours of my life I ain’t getting back.
-k-
Technorati Tags: Country Music
November 2, 2005 – 9:16 pm
I figure if the iTunes store can send me a “Music Tuesday” mail-o-gram, that I can highlight an album weekly here on the ol’ tbbs[1] blog.
I like a lot of different music genres, but if I had to give up all but one, I’d have to keep country music. Country is not this over-produced, [...]
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