Click the bullet after each quote to visit the source. If you walk into a writing room in Nashville on Music Row, you’ll hear the same song written every single day. We never get out of Nashville. We never get off of Music Row. When there’s 1000 songs written per day on Music Row, how many different songs can there be? They’re not. It’s the same beat, it’s the same melody, it’s the same words, it’s the same rhyme. It’s “truck” and “duck” and “muck.” It’s the same … [Read more...]

Click the bullet after each quote to visit the source. I know I don't look like the type that would know all that old-school country stuff. ... One night I bet a man $10 a song for every Haggard song I could play. He'd put $300 in that tip jar before he finally just gave up and left. ● - - Thompson Square's Keifer Thompson knows his Haggard. I wouldn't have guessed. People want to know what they’re going to be listening to before they hear it. And that’s so funny because it’s so … [Read more...]

Click the bullet after each quote to visit the source. Three unique families will step into the spotlight as Bayou Billionaires, My Big Redneck Vacation and Swanderosa premiere on CMT this weekend. ● - - CMT continues its focus on non-music programming... 1,071 views, 100% thumbs down ● - - ... not a popular move, judging from the stats reported at the bottom of the posting. Stephanie Renae had just turned 15, but she did a grown-up version of Underwood's "Inside Your Heaven," and … [Read more...]

Click the bullet after each quote to visit the source. Keith [Urban] had called me a couple times when the record first came out and said, 'Man, this is hands down song of the year.' He'll even text me and say, 'I'm listening to the song.' ● - - Ronnie Dunn. If you're in love with "Cost of Livin," you are not alone. All of Tim McGraw's fans -- and there are millions of them -- will be pleased to know that his Emotional Traffic album will finally be released by Curb Records on Jan. 24. … [Read more...]

Click the bullet after each quote to visit the source. I see people like Martina [McBride] do it, and Faith [Hill] do it. I know it's a possibility. I just maybe need to sit down with them and say, 'How DO you do it?' ● - - Carrie Underwood on crushing beer cans against her forehead... I mean, balancing music and motherhood. Is that so? There you go. You can't win 'em all. Maybe they're R&B fans or something. You can't please everybody. ● - - Scotty McCreery, upon learning that his … [Read more...]

Click the bullet after each quote to visit the source. I have a career that's on a bit of autopilot in the sense that I feel I can rest easy a little bit more. I don't feel that people are just going to leave me. They're not going to just move on. We do well, and it's a great feeling. ● - - See, I wasn't imagining it. Brad Paisley is definitely on autopilot. Has been since about 2005, I think. It was kind of like what Forrest Gump said -- 'One less thing.' I didn't have worry about it. … [Read more...]

Since Quotable Country traditionally goes on hiatus for the final week of the year, this will be the last edition of 2011. The feature will be back, snarky as ever, in 2012. Click the bullet after each quote to visit the source. If that ain’t country music then Waylon Jennings was a pop star! With so many people thinking that AC is the new country, when you hear real country, and that’s the music you love, you just go crazy as a listener, and that’s exactly what our audience at Y108 … [Read more...]