Dear Santa (and other people whose Christmas lists I am on), I know you don’t fully understand my country music obsession, and I appreciate that you’re wiling to accept me anyway. To save you the embarrassment of being the fifth person to buy me a Kenny Rogers calendar this December, here’s a list of gift suggestions to make me (or the other country music lovers on your list) boot scoot with joy come Christmas morning. Yours gratefully, UK Country Music Fan
A “Non Review” of Kacey Musgraves @ Royal Albert Hall
Kacey Musgraves would have probably had to come out naked on stage and dipped in marmite, or to have forgotten her guitar altogether, to have gotten a bad review from me (especially in a week when her fellow American musicians were cancelling their UK tours out of respect / fear). So, after my fourth time... Continue Reading →
C2C Socials: Please Sir, May We Have Some More
Our review of the 1st C2C Social and a fervent hope that there will be more!
My CMA 2015 Predictions – The World As It Should Be
Okay, I'm sulking because I can't figure out how to watch the CMA 2015 Awards tonight live from the comfort of a rainy, cold London. So I'm doing the next best thing and sharing my predictions (i.e. wild guesses) with you ... but I'm hedging my bets because I'm usually rubbish at this sort of... Continue Reading →
Chicken for Breakfast and Other Tennessee Food Lessons
We were honestly all about the country music when Judi and I set off for a fortnight in Tennessee (which we may have mentioned once or twice?) Then about two days in, perhaps because country music was refreshingly everywhere, we realised the trip had become about food. We'd pull up to each new town and... Continue Reading →