Nearly every day, as I wander aimlessly through the dead-end labyrinth of music related Facebook groups, I read the same, tired statement. “Country Music is Dead”.

It doesn’t even have to be a country music group, or even a Facebook page at all (many memes and websites...

Songwriters from left to right: (back row) Addison Lea Thompson, Lee Calvin, Matt Strachan, Michelle Rivers,

(front row) Chad Okrush, Melissa Forrette, Kostas, Annalisa Rose, Jessica Lechner, and Dawn from Brooke and Dawn 

I was pretty old (or at least older than I shou...

I was 23 when I finally put my guitar down for the last time.

I had quit my band six months earlier, the last band of about 12 that I had been in. I had just played my last open mic which consisted of a couple original tunes, a Britney Spears cover, and a crowd that cou...