I suppose being in bands for a good part of my life gives me that extra leaning to take notice when a new band release surfaces. For me past brilliance has shone from Alabama, Highway 101, and Exile and more recently the Zac Brown Band, The Band Perry and Little Big Town. As for Little [...]
Test Your Brain with National Geographic
“SEEING IS NOT BELIEVING” The human brain contains many mysteries. Hard wired to perceive the world about it and store a record of what it has experienced. Therein lies its brilliance and its greatest design fault. We see what we think we see. We see what we want to see. We are at the mercy [...]
Nanci Griffith at The Sage Gateshead
Many years ago in the halycon days of the Peterborough Country Music Festival I had the pleasure of seeing a fairly new artist at the time called Nanci Griffith. Nanci was new to hard core British country music audiences and it was not perhaps until the release of her album ‘Lone Star State of Mind’ [...]
The Definitive Trace Adkins
I’m sure the last shot hasn’t been fired for Trace Adkins albeit that his latest album is titled ‘Til The Last Shot’s Fired’. In fairness the full album title is The Definitive Greatest Hits which contains twenty eight tracks all of which have entered the Top Forty in the charts when he was signed to [...]
The Brilliance of the Brain
Genius or nurtured talent ? In the early Seventies a twelve year old girl was discovered in Los Angeles who had been kept locked up since birth in a single room by her mentally ill father. In addition to providing care and safety the authorities were given an opportunity to examine how this child had [...]