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Academy of Country Music Alters ACM Awards Categories; Rodney Car…
The 9513 | December 17th 2009
The Academy of Country Music announced that eight nominees will now be eligible for the fan-voted entertainer of the year prize at the 2010 ACM Awards. They’ve also merged the top new male and new female vocalist categories into one top new so read more
Americana Music Auction Raises $9,000; Garth Sues Hometown Hospit…
The 9513 | December 16th 2009
The Americana Music Association raised more than $9,000 on Monday by auctioning handwritten, autographed lyrics of songs from the likes of Guy Clark, Dolly Parton, and John Hiatt. In between bids, Clark, Hiatt, Cowboy Jack Clement, Elizabeth Cook, J read more
Ryan Bingham/T Bone Burnet Pick Up Golden Globe Nods; Luke Bryan�…
The 9513 | December 15th 2009
Jeff Bridges received a Golden Globe nomination for his performance in Crazy Heart, which also netted Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett nods for best original song for “The Weary Kind.” Sarah Jarosz recently dropped by the KUT studios to r read more
Understanding the US Debt Limit
Pond'rings | December 15th 2009 by Russ White
Related posts:National Debt ClockDebt Levels and BankruptcyUnderstanding the Talmud read more
The Real Hustle
Pond'rings | December 15th 2009 by Russ White
There is a whole series of these, well worth watching to understand just how insecure your valuables are in public. The University of Cambridge has done an analysis on the series, and has come up with a set of rules, or observations, on how to avo read more
One Reason for the 2nd Amendment
Pond'rings | December 15th 2009 by Russ White
There is another reason, to keep the government in check—but this isn’t something people like to talk about in polite company any longer. Note how the two reasons are intertwined with one another; both reasons relate to protecting life and l read more
Garth Brooks Is Officially Unretired; Opry Planning Wednesday Nig…
The 9513 | December 14th 2009
A newly unretired Garth Brooks performed the first of his Vegas shows this weekend. The Los Angeles Times and USA Today have the details. Do we really believe it was as much of a struggle as Brooks let on to honor requests for deep catalog material read more
On the Privacy Front
Pond'rings | December 14th 2009 by Russ White
While we’ve been overwhelmed with news from health care, our failing economy, and many other sides (it’s called the “fog of war,” or cognitive dissonance, and it’s intentional, in many respects), we’ve been losing read more
In Honor of Copenhagen
Pond'rings | December 14th 2009 by Russ White
In honor of the conference on climate change, I present to you with this short clip explaining the objectives of the environmentalists. From the movie The Day Stood Still, via Steel on Steel. Author insert a music with WS Audio Player(Download) this read more
On the Economy
Pond'rings | December 12th 2009 by Russ White
It’s been a while since I’ve put together a group of stories about the economy, so forthwith… Noting, of course, that this is my opinion, and I’m not an economist, nor do I play one on television, so take it for what it’ read more
Loretta Lynn Earns Lifetime Achievement Award; TIME & Billboa…
The 9513 | December 11th 2009
Loretta Lynn, Harold Bradley, and Walter Miller will be among those honored by the Recording Academy during Grammy week. Lynn will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award and both Bradley and Miller will earn Trustees Awards. Country California’s read more
More on Climategate, C02 Regulation
Pond'rings | December 11th 2009 by Russ White
There is an old joke about statisticians that runs something like this: A statistician is someone who can place their head on a hot stove, their feet in a bucket of ice water, and declare, “on the average, I feel fine.” We need something read more
‘Noble Things’ to DVD; Trace Adkins/Luke McBain Returns; Best…
The 9513 | December 10th 2009
The film Noble Things, featuring Lee Ann Womack and Tracy Byrd in their big screen debuts, will be released on DVD December 22. Feeling Austin was underrepresented on most of the decade lists cropping up, Jim Caligiuri took the liberty of chronologi read more
The Plight of the Military
Pond'rings | December 10th 2009 by Russ White
As a veteran (USAF for 9 years in Meteorological/Navigational Aids, Tech Control, Small Computer Support Center, and a few other things, mostly in the 1998th/438th Comm Group), I tend to pay attention to how the military is being treated. It’s read more
Chinese Authoritarian Capitalism
Pond'rings | December 10th 2009 by Russ White
Worth watching. Consider this as you watch it, though, that state controlled markets have another name: fascism. Related posts:Communism vs Socialism vs Fascism vs….The Rabbi and the Chinese ResturauntUniversal Healthcare Care read more
CMA Donates A Lot of Money; Ralph Rinzler’s Role In Bill Monroe…
The 9513 | December 9th 2009
The Country Music Association donated its largest sum ($1,066,632) to Nashville public schools yet through its “Keep the Music Playing” campaign. The Infamous Stringdusters have a new album, Things That Fly, planned for an April release. Danny read more
People as Things
Pond'rings | December 9th 2009 by Russ White
Here are several apparently unrelated news stories from the last week or two. Men who do not look at pornography are difficult to find. A researcher at Canada’s University of Montreal attempted to conduct a study comparing the opinions of men in read more
What’s Germany Up To?
Pond'rings | December 9th 2009 by Russ White
An article over at the Trumpet provides some very good background and thoughts on the current situation in the EU, and the newly created Presidency. Some ask, why have Germany and France forced the appointment of two apparent unknowns to the two mo read more
Gary Allan Cover; 1100 Springs’ “Great American Trainwreck”…
The 9513 | December 8th 2009
Check out the “artwork” for Gary Allan’s new record Get Off On The Pain. As far as Carrie Underwood news goes, I’m pretty sure her bikini pictures overshadowed her holiday special yesterday. Speaking of which, I only watched read more
Send Your Greetings to the Climategate Folks
Pond'rings | December 8th 2009 by Russ White
You can send your “greetings” to the folks meeting at Copenhagen to hammer out how much it’s going to cost us to reverse the non-existent impact of humans on the global climate here. I suspect anything not supportive of their cause read more
The Watcher’s Council
Pond'rings | December 8th 2009 by Russ White
There is a group of bloggers called “The Watcher’s Council” I think are well worth watching. I normally follow several of the blogs in this little group, including JoshuaPundit and Bookworm Room. They happen to have a weekly “ read more
Country Music Hall Includes Contemporary Artists; Carrie Underwoo…
The 9513 | December 7th 2009
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum plans to update its main exhibit next May with a display dedicated to contemporary artists like Brad Paisley, Taylor Swift, and Keith Urban along with another cased dedicated to Americana and contemporary bl read more
Crying Peace
Pond'rings | December 7th 2009 by Russ White
We seem to think the Islamic terror threat is over now that Mr. Obama is running around the world apologizing to everyone, for everything. Not. One week ago, I went to Ohio on business and to see my father. On Tuesday, November the 17th, I returned read more
On the Tech Front
Pond'rings | December 5th 2009 by Russ White
If you are connected to the Internet (I suppose you are, since you are reading this), and you’ve never even changed the default password on your home equipment, you need to change it. Really. Researchers scanned millions of IP addresses, and f read more
The Importance of Israel
Pond'rings | December 5th 2009 by Russ White
As a Christian, I believe Israel is important from a cultural and prophetic perspective. As a believer in conservative ideals, I believe Israel is important from a political perspective. What I didn’t really understand, until recently, is how read more
The American Police State
Pond'rings | December 5th 2009 by Russ White
Their crime? Paying their employees in gold coins minted by the US Government, and paying income taxes ont he face value of those coins, rather than the market value. Was there any armed resistance? No. Were the gates they smashed down locked? No. W read more
Townes Van Zandt Shoebox Poems Set to Music; Rascal Flatts’ Fut…
The 9513 | December 4th 2009
When Townes Van Zandt died in 1997 he left a shoebox of his poems to David Broza, who he had only performed with once before. Those poems set to music will be released Feb. 23 on a new, 12-track CD titled Night Dawn. Israeli balladeer Broza had to w read more
On the Tech Front
Pond'rings | December 4th 2009 by Russ White
Tech continues down the path of using the community to judge reality with a program called “dispute finder.” The software is installable in Firefox and many other web browsers, and is designed to mark out information in a web page that i read more
Grammy Nominees; Jack Cooke & Big Bill Lister Passed Away; Di…
The 9513 | December 3rd 2009
Nominees for the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards in the country category are as follows: Best Female Country Vocal Performance “Dead Flowers” – Miranda Lambert “I Just Call You Mine” – Martina McBride “White Ho read more
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