Every once in a while I like to settle down and read a book with a variety of tunes playing in the background – nothing too substantial I hasten to add – I am told men can’t multi task and doing two things at once is impossible! With that in mind I cranked up itunes with only one artist in mind for this book – Colt Ford. His amazing album “Chicken & Biscuits” delivered a cornucopia of tunes blending the genres of rap and country – one track stood out for me – “We like to hunt”.
I’ve always been a cowboy at heart. Who wouldn’t want to live on a small holding in Wyoming, deep in the heart of cowboy country, sitting on a porch at the end of a long day and shooting the breeze with distant neighbours?! Sounds idyllic! The sounds of Tracy Lawrence’s “If the world had a front porch” now emanating from itunes!
C.J Box is a new author for me – I confess, although well known in the US for his Joe Pickett series, that he passed me by (like a solitary tumbleweed blowing down a deserted street in the West) when the titles were first released in America – this has now been rectified!
“Laconic Joe Pickett returns to his slightly offbeat duties in Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains in C. J. Box’s Savage Run. Joe is called to the scene when an exploding cow kills a famous eco-terrorist, Stewie Woods, and his bride of three days, who were peacefully spiking trees. A visit to the cow’s pugnacious owner leaves Joe defensive, angry, and curious: Why doesn’t the rancher ask any questions about the bizarre accident that happened on his land?
Then Joe’s wife, Marybeth, begins receiving phone …
Way back in 1994 I was introduced to country music via Tim McGraw’s”
Just finished watching
Great news for Tracy Lawrence and country music fans alike. Together with his brother and manager Laney Lawrence, the Multi-platinum recording artist has
Tim McGraw’s new single “My Little Girl” is released this week,a song that is taken from his new movie
While talking to someone in work today about musical tastes I was trying to think what really made me stand up and listen to country music for the very first time. I honestly can’t remember but one thing I do remember, I always go back to this video. I believe this song was instrumental to me falling in love with the country genre. The song I hear you ask ? Don’t take The Girl …