Spring Is Here ... Time To Renew Your MIND!

Fresh back from Hawaii ... There is a Country station in Honolulu. It sounded like a station programmed in South Alabama in the '80s! Music was modern, but presentation was awful!

Did hear a Colgate talent hunt commercial. Heard a Keith Urban song on AC radio and saw a sign for Sugarland at a downtown hall. Otherwise, not a lot of country in the 50th state.

No reason not to go ... wow, what a place. Go to VIDEOS on www.askjimmycarter.com and see Surfer Girl or Hawaii.

"Celebrity Apprentice" has been a great pr tool for Trace Adkins; I'm not so sure radio picked up on it very much ... another missed opportunity. Are some stations still not trying to help Kellie Pickler get going? The big city know-it-all boys who think she's not sophisticated enough? Some people's view of what Country radio is and is supposed to be is sure distorted! Or has become that way via consolidation and group-think.

Clint Black at Nashville's Zanies comedy, doing stand0up for a CBS show coming soon ... Not sure what to think about that.

Belmont ... the University at the end of Music Row. Did great in their NCAA B-ball game. ... lost by a point, but what a game against Duke! Thought fan Vince Gill was going to go crazy!

Toby Keith done with his film; he does have screen presence. I stipulate that; I just know how HARD a good movie is to make ... even bad movies are hard. Comedies are twice has hard as horror/or action films. Why is he doing this?

Chesney is so smart for doing those fan shows ... I wish more folks on Music Row would think outside the box and do FUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN stuff!

Charlie Daniels is a great man! In so many ways! Wonderful to see him honored at BMI this week for 50 years in the business. Who lasts 50 years? Anyone read his Soapbox column on his website? The one on the Rev. Jermiah Wright? Smoking!

Anyone noticed that a LOT of morning show changes being talked about or DONE in the past few weeks? You can NEVER grow comfortable; it's not the nature of this business.

Wish the Eagles were coming here ... Nashville has no amphitheatre? Is that crappy or what? Music City uses no outdoor concert venue. Another amazing fact!

The Eagles played 30 songs the other night in London -- took a break after song 12 ... encore after song 26 ... second encore after song 28 ... final song "Desperado." First song "How Long."

The Stones film out in the next two weeks; 18 Oscar winners worked on it ... that number may, in fact, be higher. I will go back and see it in IMAX ... Best concert film I've seen.

Keith Urban still down under playing concerts, but back in the U.S. in early April for a few weeks. He talked a bunch in newspaper interviews to Aussie papers. Says he's still getting used to all the attention that he gets with the wife. You never get really used to it; it's an awful and wonderful problem to have.

Martina LIVE in April on CD ... The Beach Boys have stopped suing each other after eight years ... The Jonas Brothers are the HOTTEST male act for the 'tweeners now (Miley still the very hottest) ... Pearl Jam back on tour ... The Supremes rarities coming, you wonder if that would work for any country acts?

See where Dolly is yelling about older acts not getting airplay? Says we are as good as we ever were if we ever were. It is silly for Country to have a more restricted demographic list than Classic Rock or AC. A loyal format of listeners and the focus of the labels is 18-36, the CD buyers ... 25-54 women only want to hear Taylor and Carrie? Rascals and Keith? Why do I feel that is wrong? It's what the labels are telling you, not your audience. There a format thinker out in Radioland who knows how to have fun on the radio, like Disney Radio does with its family...

Keep honoring these brilliant programmers some more at CRS for running jukeboxes ... excellent minds. They can schedule that music scheduling software computers like the brains at NASA. Meanwhile ... Top 40 is having fun ... the little kids are having fun ... Country radio just plows away as a "10 plays in a row" jukebox. Cox does it better than most, too.