He went out of his way to help me, and I witnessed him do the same for many others. He was a real professional and someone who I admired greatly as a writer and as a person.

Nashville and country music will sorely miss his presence, kindness and vision.

Man, I would really have to “stalk” a journalist for years to be able to even attempt to figure out who s/he AVOIDS writing about. It hardly seems worth the trouble.

I Jewly Hight. Back when I was doing a lot of writing about country music, I felt that it was imperative to take each artist I interviewed at face value as an artist – that is to say, to take as a baseline operating assumption that regardless of whether I liked an artist’s music, it was something that the artist thought about, worked on and was invested in as a creative person. And therefore that each artist had something interesting – and, in one way or another, valuable – to say about her music. It seems like there aren’t all that many music journalists who look at their work that way these days – sometimes you can tell by who they avoid writing about, other times you can tell by the unmistakable tone of contempt or snarkiness that oozes out of the writing – but Jewly obviously does, and as a result, she’s doing some of the best writing about music to be read these days.

Great, the Piston Annies start a Girl Power online community named “The Henhouse”! I guess if men drop in they should expect a good pecking! (lol)

I don’t know about Chely Wright, but “Wish Me Away” applies more to Kenny Cheesehead in my mind than Chely…

Music City Roots is featuring another “Artists You’ve Likely Never Heard Of!” nights tonight. The line up includes The Cumberland Collective, David Mead (any relation to Chuck?), Leigh Nash, Jason White, and Swan Dive. Ok so it turns out Leigh Nash was with Sixpence None The Richer. She looks like she could be Taylor Swift’s big sister.
Link: http://musiccityroots.com/shows