The nation’s toughest conference looks primed for another stellar season on the gridiron. Alabama and Florida, the last two read more...
Jimmy Dean, who died on June 13 of this year, would have been 82 read more...
Dog Day Afternoon In the Peach State A quick note as the Dog Days descend here in Georgia…I briefly visited
The SEC tops the nation when it comes to college football so it should be no surprise that the "Media Days" in July draw so read more...
News Reels on Lanois, Young & the Death of Nashville Legend Fred Carter Jr. As reported earlier, recently producer Daniel read more...
Hank Cochran Passes Away Mississippi born Hank Cochran died Thursday at the age of 74 from pancreatic cancer at his home in read more...
The SEC ended another stellar year with another national championship.
by Michael Buffalo Smith Charlie Daniels has had quite a year. More recording, non-stop touring and recovering from a read more...
One week after country music stars rallied to raise over $2 million for Nashville, TN, flood relief,
(Thirty Tigers) Bobby Bare Jr. knows music. He grew up in the shadow of his father, lived next door to
(Thirty Tigers) Water Bound counts as Shannon Whitworth's second release. Whitworth served as a member of The Biscut read more...
(Elixir Press) “And to celebrate loss in that city of flesh and the dead…” Born in Birmingham, read more...
Just every once in a while a CD comes across my piled-under desk that stands head and shoulders above the other dozen plus read more...
Silver Arrow Records The rare collection of songwriters in
(Saguaro Road Records) I have been following Bo Bice since the very first American Idol audition way back read more...
(Everso) Tears. Lies and Alibis counts as Shelby Lynne's 11th studio album. The basic tracks were recorded in read more...
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (New West) Well, I haven’t seen the movie yet but after listening to read more...
(Shongaloo) Finally! I have been lurking and eagerly awaiting the arrival of a Bekka Bramlett solo album for several read more...
(Collector's Choice Music) Folk Country counted as Waylon Jennings’ debut RCA release. RCA wanted to lure the read more...
NOTES ON THE STATE OF POETRY: Part Four by Diann Blakely "Boom" by Lisa Eveleigh, Biloxi, MS Detour: After weeks--no, months- of sitting shiva in front of CNN as BP threatens to wreak greater ruinage on the South, read more...
Michael Houser: The Quiet Genius: Eight Years Gone By James Calemine Eight years ago Widespread Panic’s founding guitarist died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 40. It doesn’t seem like eight years since he’s been gone…
The world’s biggest sporting contest is upon us, and the Southern storylines could not be more prevalent. With the Saints and the Colts meeting in the Super Bowl, Swampland fans should be thoroughly entertained by the matchup of an exciting New Orleans team read more...
STATE OF THE ART: TENNESSEE By Diann Blakely Morgan Entrekin, head of Grove-Atlantic Press, made a fresh name for himself in a New Yorker “Talk of the Town” piece not long ago when he freely admitted to not reading all of the read more...
SEC 01/01 –.Auburn vs. Northwestern - Outback Bowl (11 am EST – ESPN) 01/01 – LSU vs. Penn State - Independence Bowl (1 pm EST – ABC) 01/01 – Florida vs. Cincinnati – Sugar Bowl (8:30pm EST – read more...
SEC 12/27 – Kentucky vs. Clemson - Music City Bowl (8:30pm EST – ESPN) 12/28 – Georgia vs. Texas A&M read more...
As we head into October, we've learned quite a few things about this current college football season. SEC - This conference remains on top, not only for our Footprint, but also nationally. There are still 3 SEC teams in the top 5, and there are two teams (Florida and Alabama) that seem to be headed towards another collision in Atlanta for the right to read more...
It's going to be a briefer than normal weekly fever. We will take a look at some key games coming up and how they affect our teams and conferences as a whole, but first let's start with a subject that really has us a bit miffed.
We warned about a difficult season in SPF land, but we didn't think the wheels would come off so fast for certain teams. The good news is with a few of our top teams. The Colts and Saints sit at 3-0 and look like potential Super Bowl contenders. The Falcons, the Cowboys, and the Bengals are all at 2-1 and though they all have a few chinks in their armor, their read more...
We already warned everyone that 2009 looked like a down year for our SPF teams across the board. It could be worse than we imagined after one of our better teams (Tennessee) has stumbled to an 0-2 start.