Alabama

In 2002 I had the honor of hosting a bus trip to see the Alabama Farewell Tour. Now, a little over 10 years later, we have a chance to see the mega-group once again on the much anticipated 'Back To The Bowery' Reunion Tour!

The nearly week long hostage situation in Alabama involving a five-year-old boy has finally come to an end.

There are few things that will make a grown man from Alabama break down in tears and a ticket to this year's BCS National Championship game against Notre Dame is one of them.

There have been a lot of great bands in the world of country music over the years and for many of you you may find it hard to narrow it down to five. I actually started this list with eight and then worked it down to five, and I hope you agree with some or all of my choices below.

As we continue to raise funds to help St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, we discovered a fun story about Randy Owen, the man who created the Country Cares for St. Jude kids radiothon.

We recently featured Alabama on our Sunday Morning Classic Country Hall of Fame Show.  However, with over 40 No. 1 hits to pick from, we couldn't feature all of their great songs between 6 and 9am.

Jake Owen hosted a party at a waffle house via Twitter.  Jake wrote, “Waffle House.  I’m up late.  On a Sunday.  I’m hungry.  Anyone else hungry? I’m buying.  Now.  On my way.”

As I look over the list of the 2011 CMA award nominees, I notice that George Strait's name is missing from the list.  Ever since I started in Country Radio, in 1986, his name has appeared every year as a nominee in some category.

Time to get ready for a three day weekend and it's time once again for another blast from the past with this week's edition of Flashback Friday. Since I was off last week I thought I would give ya a double dose of great country tunes for all the hard working folks out there on this Labor Day weekend.

The Music and Memories of Aug. 16

The Music and Memories of July 23

When we first started playing Brad Paisley’s song “Old Alabama” on WGNA, I thought it was cool how the song was about the group Alabama, complete with the titles of their songs cleverly mixed into the lyrics and sung to the 1982 Alabama hit “Mountain Music.”