Thursday Morning News Roundup: Thanksgiving Edition
- The pop singer turned country, Michelle Branch, is selling her Los Angeles home to move to Nashville. Branch is one of the members of the new band The Wreckers. Her home is listed at $3.3 million. Imagine the things The 9513 could do with that kind of money.
- I don’t know very much about Jake Owen, but after reading the article on CMT he sounds like a talented guy. You have to like a guy who has the balls to drop out of college nine hours shy of getting a degree to pursue something that he loves.
A mere nine credit hours from completing his degree, Owen decided to drop out of school and pursue music full time. His parents gave him their blessings.
“I packed up my truck and moved to Nashville,” he says. “I didn’t know what I was going to do. I didn’t know anyone. I didn’t know where I was going to live. I just knew that that’s where I needed to be and that this was what I was going to do for the rest of my life.”
- Back in 1991 Buck Owens presented Vince Gill with one of his signature guitars. Recently while Gill was on tour he stopped by the radio station of the late Buck Owens where he was presented with another guitar that Buck Owens had not gotten around to giving him, except this time it was a rare Gibson guitar that his family says he only gave to a few people. It came with a gold plaque that read “To Vince Gill I finally got it right! A fan, Buck Owens March 5, 1992.”
- If Guy Clark ever comes to town, you can count me among the audience. The Tennessean has a glowing review from Clark’s performance last night. I’m so used to shows lasting no more than an hour, Clark went on for two and a half and had Rodney Crowell come out at one point to sing a song.
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