My Faron Young/Marty Robbins e-mail newsletter now consists of a variety of country music bits. Please forward this to anyone who might like to be added to the mailing list. NEWS Randy Travis is “getting his voice back now, little by little,” Randy’s dad, Harold Traywick, told Closer magazine last week. An unidentified friend was quoted as […]
By Roman Krznaric How Should We Live? Great Ideas from the Past for Everyday Life was first published in 2011 and is being reissued in 2014. “I believe the future of the art of living can be found by gazing into the past,” writes author Roman Krznaric in the preface. “If we explore how people […]
NEWS Garth Brooks sold 240,000 tickets in 90 minutes last Thursday. Tickets for two July concerts in Dublin, Ireland, went on sale at 9 am. They sold out so fast a third date was scheduled, and those tickets went on sale at 9.30 am, both online and at Ticketmaster outlets around the country. Police had […]
By William Seidman and Richard Grbavac Organizations usually have a few star performers who are more motivated and dedicated and deliver better results than the others. What if it were possible for every person in your company to be a star performer? The Star Factor: Discover What Your Top Performers Do Differently–and Inspire a New […]
By Eve Haas The Secrets of the Notebook: A Woman’s Quest to Uncover Her Royal Family Secret is a nonfiction mystery, with history and aspects of a love story, all wrapped up with a satisfying conclusion. Eve Haas spent thirty years searching for an explanation as to why her great-great-grandfather’s family had apparently disappeared from […]
My Faron Young/Marty Robbins e-mail newsletter now consists of a variety of country music bits. NEWS Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell have won a Grammy — Old Yellow Moon in the category of Best Americana Album. Although the 56th GRAMMY Awards telecast aired Sunday evening, some of the awards were presented during a pre-telecast ceremony in […]
FEATURED ARTIST- HOLLY DUNN Here’s an email from Holly Dunn: “I will attempt to give you a brief overview of where I have been and what I’ve been up to since I left Nashville in 2003 and totally retired from the music business. There were many factors in that decision, but mainly, I had been […]
After eight years of publishing my Faron Young/Marty Robbins e-mail newsletter, and talking about Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins and Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young Story, it’s time for a change. I’m now publishing a variety of country music news bits, so “keep those cards and letters coming.” NEWS Jack Blanchard and Misty Morgan, […]
After eight years of publishing my Faron Young/Marty Robbins e-mail newsletter, it’s time for a change. I repeat myself when talking about Faron and Marty, and i don’t have a biography subject to follow Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins and Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young Story, so there hasn’t been much to say. […]