Hank Thompson & Porter Wagoner Bear Family Records Winners
First off, huge thanks to everyone who participated in our first anniversary giveaway. We’d like to give a Bear Family box-set to each and every one of you, but unfortunately a collection of Bear Family magnitude doesn’t come cheap so we can only give two collections away. And, it looks like I win both of them! Thanks for playing. Oh wait, Brady is feeding me some BS about conflict of interest, blah…blah…blah.
On to the real winners: Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys goes to our favorite staunch traditionalist, Paul W. Dennis and the bubbly on-air personality, Double-L, is the recipient of Porter Wagoner’s The Thin Man From The West Plains. Congrats to the both of you.
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November 16, 2007 at 4:36 pm Permalink
Congrats to them. The lucky *%$^$?ers. ;)
November 16, 2007 at 7:56 pm Permalink
Congrats guys. I’m envious myself.
November 16, 2007 at 9:47 pm Permalink
Paul, get hip to the downloads. I don’t care how old you are, get hip to it. If you can figure out how to post on a blog, you can figure out how to download. Knuckle down, buckle down, do it, do it, do it. You can’t roller skate in a buffalo herd. Oh, and congrats.
November 17, 2007 at 12:00 pm Permalink
WOW! Check it out! The radio peeps are actually WINNING! :D Thanks, guys… for opening my eyes and ears to new music. I’ve never been luckier! :) PS… funny that you coined me, “bubbly” JUST from my posts… you should TALK to me! Hahahaha! I’m known as “Radio’s Rachael Ray”! Anyhow, enough about me… THANK YOU again. I can’t wait to get all Porter’d out!
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