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“If you listen to Marty Robbins, Buck Owens or Johnny Cash,” Rick notes, “you’ll hear Mexican-style sounds like gut-string guitar, polka beats, or the mariachi trumpets in Cash’s ‘Ring of Fire.’ You can even hear bolero rhythms in recent country hits by Brooks & Dunn and George Strait. Country music has always had a fascination with Latin music, so it seemed like a good opportunity to celebrate that at Schermerhorn Symphony Center.”

Trevino is playing tonight in Austin at Hill’s Cafe for part of the KVET Free Texas Music Series. I had plans to go, but game five of the Spurs is going to take precedence, sorry Rick.

I don’t smoke dope, never have, but then I’m no genius. You make certain allowances for geniuses. You treat them with deference and awe and great respect. You overlook a few things. (Willie was not driving, by the way.) Maybe you make them pay a fine, but you don’t treat them like everyone else.

via Still Is Still Moving

“I actually recorded one of the demos for this song, probably four years ago,” Aldean explains. “We were going to put it on my first album, and about two weeks before we went in to start recording, the publishing company pulled it from us and told us they were going to give it to ‘a more established artist.’ So they ended up giving it to Tracy Byrd, and he put it on a greatest hits album [in 2005 for BNA Records]. But it never singled. It was the first thing we cut for this new album.”

From the same article, Aldean says “I’m a singer first and a songwriter second.” Later on he argues that playing acoustic isn’t his strong point…