Keeping Afloat

Jimmy Carter in his homebase Nashville

A new week and gasoline/diesel process are lower and getting lower! The market is poised to hopefully rise again. New, fresh music is coming to make the sales sheets come alive in the fourth quarter. The air is cooler and football/baseball is everywhere.

Depressing is only one word to describe the country in the last few days. The election isn't helping anything with the most boring debate held just off Music Row. That was AWFUL! Let's reshuffle and pick seven new cards!

The Chesney CD will hopefully jump-start the sales for the season. Kenny is working hard this week with blanket TV/radio/print coverage. The single is #1 and the plan is moving forward.

The interviews for the project are OK, but the Newsweek shot was actually fresh feeling ... check it out ... Kenny has a new house, is dating someone and is horrible on the video game RockBand.

Rascal Flatts and Taylor Swift are in Nashville this week for a concert. The boys went to the Vanderbilt Hospital as usual. They have given a ton of money to the place. Taylor says she wants to play in Iraq. What a great young lady!

With the market and stocks going nuts, how does anyone plan the concert tour schedules for 2009? Ticket prices, etc. Every week is so different from the week before. Conservative thought is not going to serve Music Row well in the coming months. Buyers of concerts and CDs are going to be more careful how they spend what cash they do have!

Carrie Underwood is getting better and better reviews. She's always been a technically great singer but she needed to warm up her stage show. That has happened and her fans are loving her even more.

Billy Currington is poised for a comeback....

Fall is a great time of the year ... The CMA show hype has begun, but you can't help but wonder how it will do. The MTV Video awards did okay ... some of the others, not so okay....

Brad and Carrie hosting will hopefully make a difference. Congrats to WQYK Tampa, CMA Station of the Year! (Yes, I am on the station Monday-Friday at 7:45a)