
A few days ago I received an email from my friend in Tennessee. After working her whole life in record stores, she's finally out of a job . Please know this link is just for one store but apparently all locations are closing. I feel bad for her and will miss all the promotional samplers she use to give me. Last week I wrote a post that mentioned how Las Vegas has no decent record stores. Only half true, as we do have two Zia Record Exchanges and although they have a good [...]

Not too long ago, we examined the bizarre but enjoyable world of the country mambo . Today we shift gears only slightly and check out two other microscopically small sub-genres of the Nashville recording industry: the country tango and rhumba scenes. Well, mostly these were Nashville efforts. The Lucky Stars represent an exception as their version of Tennesee Tango was recorded in California, if I'm not mistaken. If you think the intersection of country music and Latin dance crazes represents an unlikely collision of cultures, you may wish to brace yourself [...]