And the winner was… STURGILL SIMPSON! Who excoriated Nashville and the ACM and CMA for embracing Merle Haggard posthumously when they pushed him aside during his lifetime. Sturgill Simpson is an outsider. And people love him for it. Whenever I write about country music I hear his name most, my inbox overflows, he’s got rabid […]

What a game! It had everything, a rain delay, a comeback and extra innings. And it ended at 12:45 AM on the east coast and the younger generation that no longer plays would have been hooked if it had only seen it. Baseball was everything growing up. I played Little League where you either made […]

Hasn’t he got enough money? Then again, maybe he’s not only exclusive to Apple, maybe you can hear his new album “Cosmic Hallelujah” via Amazon, but I doubt it and researching it is too hard, these acts don’t realize Apple and Amazon’s streaming services are narrow silos whose contents are invisible to those who do […]

Sometimes you’ve got to sell. You may not think this applies to you, two fading news enterprises fighting for survival, but there are self-satisfied owners across all avenues of business, those so caught up in their vision and their love of the company that they can’t see the forest for the trees, they can’t see […]