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Lionel Richie performed "Just For You" (w/Billy Currington) on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Watch the video below and pick up the album Tuskegee on iTunes , Amazon MP3 , CD ...
Ever wonder what will happen during the last five minutes of late-night TV talk shows? Here are tonight's notable performers: The Late Show With David Letterman (CBS): Punch Brothers The Punch Brothers are plugging brand new album Who's Feeling Young Now? The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (NBC): Seal Seal is promoting new release Soul 2. Jimmy [...]
Ever wonder what will happen during the last five minutes of late-night TV talk shows? Here are tonight's notable performers: The Late Show With David Letterman (CBS): Ra Ra Riot Rerun from December 7. The band performed "Boy" from latest album The Orchard. The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (NBC): Jill Scott Jill Scott is plugging [...]

This summer playlist is somewhat of a time warp but not the kind you would think because more than half this music I consider perfect for summer because of it's tone or theme. The lyrics or title might mention the sun or burn the sort of imagery that you'd want in the perfect beach movie soundtrack. It's Summertime MP3 by The Flaming Lips from Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots This song always creeps into almost every playlist but still qualifies since it's movie like. Booty City MP3 by [...]

Tweet Room 136 at the Best Western in Vega, Texas is a great time. As I sip on a Bud Heavy and use this laptop for warmth, I realize that it really is the simple things that are important. Because my family is moving from Chicago to Los Angeles, I have been helping them by driving a U-Haul through Missouri, Oklahoma, and until this fucking insane blizzard hit, Texas. Now I'm stuck here until tomorrow. Anyway, I have some serious downtime right [...]

It has been complete madness around Nashville lately. Show after show after show, and there's no feasible way to fit them all in. Also, CMA Award week is rapidly approaching, so there's lot to prepare for. I've been wanting to see Carrie's "Play On" tour, but I didn't see how it was going to happen. A couple hours before the show, a ticket fairy offered me two comp seats to the show in the client suite at Bridgestone. I was going to make it happen. [...]
If pressed to find a song that seems to best describe me right now, I can't find one better than Billy Currington's Pretty Good At Drinkin Beer . Say what you will about what that says about me but the song itself is a chill country song and chill seems to be what's catching and holding onto my ear right now. MP3: Billy Currington - Pretty Good At Drinkin Beer

It takes a special kind of narcissist to quote himself. Sure, non-fiction writers often develop opinions about the things they're writing about and parrot them back to a colleague or friend when asked about them later. Talking heads on news programs do this all the time - paraphrasing quotes and rattling off facts they may have posted that morning on their blog. Hell, even movie stars on talk shows tell the same story on different outlets a few nights apart. But none of those things are the same as quoting yourself the way James Cameron did recently when he was [...]
The top ten most ridiculous songs in country. Songs that take literal lyricism to its most extreme. Songs about tractor and tractors and tractors.
Skydiggers are a Canadian roots rock band from Toronto, Ontario. They formed in 1987 and were signed by Engima Records in 1989. With their love for roots music they blended a folk, rock and country style into music that has still not grown old. Just last year they teamed up with The Cash Brothers and released an acoustic album. If you like John Hiatt you'll love Skydiggers. Prepare for some foot tapping. Listen: Skydiggers - " What Can I Say " (mp3) And since I don't blog nearly enough [...]