“Country has become the pop radio as we knew it…” – Tim McGraw

Nelson, Haggard and Price (backed by Grammy Award winning “Kings of Texas Swing” Asleep at the Wheel, led by Ray Benson, and Ray Price backed by his Cherokee Cowboys) deliver rousing performances of their greatest hits in the richest voices this side of the Rio Grande. Their warm yet gritty, powerful and honest music is as timeless as it is fresh. The tour was so successful that the trio is heading out “on the road again” this August and September.

Deputy District Attorney General Derek Smith told the Tennessean that she violated probation in three ways: by being charged in a new offense; not reporting those charges immediately to her probation officer; and by the nature of the new assault charges.

If convicted of violating probation she could spend up to three years in prison.

“That song perked people’s ears up. That song really provided opportunities for me. It made a lot of people say, ‘Who’s that?’ And I have no hang-ups about country versus rock.

“But hell hath no fury than a 13-year-old Hinder fan scorned,” he said with a laugh. “It’s never fun to have people throw things at you, either, physically or verbally.”

Ingram said that if he thought he would only be known for singing that song, he wouldn’t have done it. “People have the idea already of what I’m like,” he said. “And only I know what’s in my artistic tank. That song, it’s gonna be only one of many things. That’s what I’m getting ready to show.”

On “It’s Not Big It’s Large,” Lovett addresses the basics: love, life, death, and the fluidity of time itself. In many different songs the past intrudes on the present and the narrator finds strength to deal with the travails of today by putting them into historical perspective. This may sound heavy, but it’s Lovett’s gift to make the deep thoughts slide down like honey. His tone is not one of resignation, but more one of hope through acceptance, as if to say, “this is what life is; this is who I am, and this is where I belong.”