In that eerie twilight after the sun sets, just before total darkness descends, I heard this string flourish come out of the speakers that I hadn’t heard in decades but was as familiar as my foot.  It was part of me.  Kind of like running into an old friend from summer camp, who you spent […]

Country radio has got problems. They play the same songs FOREVER! The day its audience gets iPods and/or satellite radio, the tightly-controlled Nashville scene is gonna implode. Country fans are subjected to a weird combination of Top Forty from the sixties and the nineties. There’s a homey feel like the sixties, only hits, but there’s […]

I didn’t know lesbians liked country music. We refused to pay $25 to park. That’s an insult. We live in Los Angeles, the suburban city. That kind of fee is why we hate New York. We left our car in the dark, for $10, and that’s when we encountered these two women. They label country […]

There’s this song on the new Little Big Town album that’s a cross between "Crystal" and "Landslide". I discovered it how you find all great songs. When I wasn’t looking for it. I was reading newspapers and magazines way past midnight on Felice’s dining room table. She was asleep. I haven’t gone to bed at […]