A wise man once said it takes a lifetime to build a reputation and it takes about two seconds to destroy it ... And that little saying ought to be printed out and put on everybody's computer in the entertainment business. From Music Row to Wall Street to the Hollywood ...

A stink is brewing up in the entertainment district downtown; clubs charging bands to play at their venues. That is a trick used often on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood. New artists just want to be seen and they will pay for that privilege ... A free-market economy, ...

Downtown Nashville has become one big Cheers, that '80s TV sitcom about a Boston bar where everybody knows your name. Lower Broadway Nashville has become a Bourbon Street meets Epcot. Modern but old-fashioned cluster of bars and branded restaurants. No one really ...

Heard that saying all my life ... so why bring it up? I'm finding it hard to say how I feel about this review in the LA Times of Garth Brooks' fantastic StageCoach show last weekend. Print reviews of many things have mostly been on my ignore list for decades. Rotten ...

Last Sunday was a shocker for everyone around Music City ... A crazy, naked gunman went on a killing spree at a SE Davidson County Waffle House. The manhunt and arrest took up a lot of our mind time this week. A mass murderer on the loose for 36 hours got everyone's ...

Turning a negative into a positive. Carrie Underwood was taking her dogs out to do their business back a few months ago and it turned into a nightmare. Carrie shattered her wrist and cut her lip and face. It would have been bad for anyone but when you are Carrie ...

A lot more people are talking hockey than Country music around this town this weekend. Yes, the CMA rival, the ACMs, are in Vegas this weekend but the Stanley Cup playoff team The Nashville Predators are the top drawer here these days ... Maybe even more than the NFL ...

A couple of days from the Vegas ACMs ... the PR machines have awakened and the pace is picking up around a still-not-very-Spring feeling Nashville. New songs today from Kenny Chesney and Jason Aldean got the day rolling and the CBS Morning News did a feature on the new ...

Nashville Songwriter's Hall of Fame member Kenny O'Dell died this week at the age of 73. Prolific tunesmith of so many great ones like "Behind Closed Doors" and "Mama He's Crazy." I knew him as a radio listener from his artist/songwriter days. He was played in my hometown ...