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Randy Phillips Responds

From: Randy PhillipsSubject: Re: Kenny ChesneyDate: June 26, 2007 6:03 PM PDT Bob, only you can ruin my high from opening the greatest arena in the world, London, England’s The O2, this week. Here I sit in my hotel room at 1:30am and I foolishly open your blog, or whatever it is. Both Kenny Chesney […]

Number One?

  Jon Bon Jovi did "American Idol", "The Today Show", "Unplugged" and all he could sell was 285,000 measly albums? Wanted dead or alive? I’d say NOT WANTED TOO MUCH! Hey Jon, why didn’t you get arrested and violate your probation so you could get out of jail when your album was released? This is […]

Kenny Chesney

In the new "Newsweek" they’ve got "181 Things You Need To Know Now". It’s set up in the manner of a quiz. Like this: "True or False: U.S.’s Broadband Penetration Is Lower Than Even Estonia". If you guessed false, you obviously haven’t been tracking this story. Turns out the U.S. is 24TH when it comes […]

Bon Jovi/Lost Highway

Country is a state of mind. It’s about family and hearth, boozing and telling your story. Oh, it’s not only the pretty faces singing the songs of writers for hire, the tent is bigger than that, it’s got room for the authenticity of Steve Earle and all the players in Austin. But it’s not about […]