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T-Shirt Winner For June 1st
The winner for this week’s Summer Time T-Shirt Giveaway is Jen Wingfield for her comment on the Top 15 Best Designed Country Music Artist Home Pages.
Jen said:
Honestly, I know everyone is getting pertty tired of Kenny Chesney but in my opion I think his website deserve to be on this list. He is the biggest [...] -
Month In Review: April 2007
Traffic continued it’s upward march through the month of April which lets us know that you guys are spreading the word about The 9513, so we thank you for that. We gave away some free music and quite a few t-shirts last month. You never know when we’ll be feeling generous, so check back often [...]
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April T-shirt Contest: Final Winners
Today is the last day for the April t-shirt contest. We’re feeling a little generous, so instead of just giving away two shirts we decided to make it five.
The WinnersDeke Rivers for his comment on Stonewall Jackson vs. The Opry: Whose Side Are You On?
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Second Round Of April T-shirt Winners!
Check out the contest rules to see how you can enter and win a t-shirt yourself.
The WinnersCarolyn Evans is our first winner for her comment on our John Michael Montgomery interview.
The second winner simply goes by Jim, and he was randomly chosen for his comment about Joe Walsh joining Kenny Chesney for his tour.There’s [...]
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Month In Review: March 2007
Last month we started the “Month In Review” feature to highlight what we think is some of the best content over the previous month. In March Jenna got a job, so she isn’t able to post as often as she used to. Matt C. graciously responded to our call for help and has been writing [...]
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T-Shirt Winners For February
We’re a little late announcing the t-shirt winners from the month of February. While the main contest we were running was the Last of The Breed ticket contest, we also said we’d be giving away a t-shirt to three random commenters throughout the month.
The winners are: Bubba C, Linda Banks, and Timmy Mac.
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Month In Review: February 2007
I wanted to highlight what I think is some the best of our content on The 9513 from the month of February. I’m mainly doing this for the newer readers who haven’t visited the Archives yet, and to get some feedback on what features people like and dislike.
Album, Concert, & Book Reviews
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Country Music Blogs And Their Golden Age Counterparts
I try to post the latest news in country music here at The 9513 as often as possible (usually in the mornings), but wouldn’t be able to do that without the help of other websites that provide the news. Generally it’s established media sites, but occasionally I’ll come across some gems on different country [...]
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The 9513 T-shirts Have Arrived And Leah Durelle Is Added To The iPod Shuffle Contest
We’ve got a few exciting things to report today. First up, we got a shipment of The 9513 t-shirts in from the printer that we’ll post in the shop sometime in the next few days. The t-shirts look great and we couldn’t be happier with the results. We decided to go with Mammoth Printshop for [...]
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Jenna On Fiddle, Brody On Guitar, And Brady On Mandolin?
Jenna mentioned in her previous article, Fiddlin’ Around, that around last August she decided to do something about her fiddle obsession. She went and rented a fiddle and has been taking lessons ever since. Yesterday I decided to take a page out of her book and do something about my desire to play guitar. I [...]
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