Sara Evans Divorce Update, Planned Chris LeDoux Statue, And New Willie Nelson Record Label

In Sara’s response, she states that she had a computer expert make a copy of Craig’s hard drive and that since Craig still has the hard drive, he can access the photographs himself.

The bronze titled “Good Ride Cowboy” depicts LeDoux’s 1976 world championship ride, on Stormy Weather, and further incorporates his love of music, and status as a renowned, and admired singer, songwriter, recording artist replicating his Guild acoustic guitar and strap as the base of the sculpture. The bronze will be 1 1/2 times life size.

Will there ever be another performer quite like Chis LeDoux? I remember listening to his Old Cowboy Classics in my dad’s truck when I was growing up.

Canadian guy (and recent Nashville transplant) Luke Doucet isn’t a country guy in the CMT-friendly Badonka-tonk sense, or even the old-school twang sense — his stuff has a rock stomp and a folk expressiveness and a kind of jazzy pop angle, too. But Doucet’s a storyteller with an earnest vocal delivery and an honest lilt to his songwriting, so maybe that’s why folks up North have tended to call him an alt-country guy and why it’s got some validity.

Can’t decide between a comedy club and live music? Go see Hayes Carll, who introduces “Little Rock,” the title track from his new album (available only at shows until March), by explaining that he came too late to the Texas singer-songwriter movement, so to set himself apart he started writing songs about Arkansas.

“It started off because I didn’t have enough songs to do a full set, so I’d go into these introductions between songs,” says Carll, who doesn’t crack a joke during a 45-minute phone interview. “As a fan, I like it when songwriters tell funny stories between songs. It makes the material more accessible, I think.”