We may have to call in Dave Chappelle, who might be brave enough to take on the subject of award shows post-Covid. Don’t think I feel free to say what I really think about the way ABC and the Country Music Association (CMA) are lining up this woke edition of the ...

So, the Grammy committee says Kasey Musgraves’ new album does not fit into the Country genre enough to qualify for consideration for Best Country Album. Kasey’s label is mad as a murder hornet! Maybe an independent screening committee should listen to all ...

Facebook has been frying on the stove this week in Congress, and disappearing when the whole service crashed for seven hours on Monday. Social media at your fingertips is like a spy carrying a suicide pill in his hidden shoe compartment. The internet lasts forever! ...

Seen some pretty crazy corporate broadcasting moves lately, like Gray TV getting rid of sports at its Birmingham TV station. (There is no crazier sports fan than the ones 50 miles from Tuscaloosa.) The giant company was probably reducing salary overhead more than making ...

How many of the artists on Country radio today came to Nashville with a few bucks and a dream? Probably most of them. Read the back-story of Baskin, LA’s Lainey Wilson, who is celebrating her first #1, “Things a Man Oughta Know.” She is one of those ...

Labor Day is gone and we are in football and award season. The fall shows are almost back on the four “main” TV networks. The VMAs, now Emmys, CMAs and Oscar buzz. It sounds like such a busy, fun time of the year, but wait! As you read the press coming out ...

It’s that time of year, a little past Labor Day and we learn who is in and who is out on 16th Avenue as the nominations for the Country Music Association Awards are revealed. Morgan Wallen’s “Dangerous: The Double Album” is nominated for album of ...

How much money went out the door when the Bonnaroo festival threw in the wet towel this week? These days you never know if the plans you have are going to be what you will actually do! Radio people, music people and news people never know what is going to happen in the ...

Knowing when to leave … and exactly when is that? The Rolling Stones are expected to hit Nashville next month as scheduled. Some buzz online yapping that they should quit. It’s not the Stones without Charlie Watts? Hmmm. The Beatles were never, ever getting ...