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For all you beer drinking county music fans who are never going to consume another Bud because they are owned a Belgium company: Stop consuming country music.

The Summer of Guest DJs rolls on, and my very first guest for the month of July is Michael Eades of Yewknee.com.  Michael's an old pro at this guest-DJing thing - he joined me for a show last summer - and tonight's show is going to be a celebration of the launch of his annual

The Summer of Guest DJs rolls on, and my very first guest for the month of July is Michael Eades of Yewknee.com.  Michael's an old pro at this guest-DJing thing - he joined me for a show last summer - and tonight's show is going to be a celebration of the launch of his annual

My Morning Jacket tickets aren't the only exciting thing going down on the show tonight - the Summer of Guest DJs is also moving right along, and I have another excellent guest lined up to share some tunes with you.

My Morning Jacket tickets aren't the only exciting thing going down on the show tonight - the Summer of Guest DJs is also moving right along, and I have another excellent guest lined up to share some tunes with you.

The Painters of the American Eight which opened March 7 will close this Sunday, March 15 at the Cheekwood Art Museum in Nashville. Visit the Cheekwood page on Art Museum Touring.com for more information about this and other exhibitions (Link...).

Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) made a musical splash Memorial Day weekend in a performance with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra; it was later posted in a video clip on YouTube. More recently, Alexander performed a few tunes at the piano in NPR’s Studio 4A.

Lamar plays out Memphis in May:

Before sitting down to tickle the ivories, U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander cracked, “It’s very brave of the symphony to risk its reputation.”