The sleeping giant is waking up. As soon as the Easter Bunny left town the concert makers rode in in the form of Eric Church and his very ambitious 55-city arena tour and Kane Brown’s 35-city Blessed & Free arena tour.

Kane went to Dallas at The American Airlines Center to announce that he was going to play all 29 NBA arenas. This has to be a Country first. Kane is one of the few Country artists to ever sell out L.A.’s Staples Center.

Just this week, Alan Jackson postponed an arena show that was set for May at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. The show was moved to October. Nashville is not wide open, at least not yet.

Church says this tour has been planned like a moon mission. I’m sure they have worked very hard, but this is going to take a lot of luck to be able to pull off these arena shows with all the different cities all the different protocols. The amphitheater shows that are planned for dozens of artists might be a little easier to pull off.

There was a ’60’s TV show called “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.” A huge submarine exploring the deep oceans, and one day came up to see the skies all red like they were on fire. I don’t remember what happened next, but I can remember that sub crew freaking ...

Kenny Chesney saying no to a 2021 tour was a blow this week. He moved it all to 2022. Going from town to town trying to do a stadium tour became just too complicated. You do see some movement in the festival marketplace. Cullman’s Rock the South is back this August, ...

If you were happy with the Grammy Awards show and didn’t see the audience disconnect in advance, that is the problem. The pandemic has put decision makers in their ivory towers more than ever. If you didn’t miss the late producer Walter Miller, then that’s a ...

It’s a subject no one wants to talk about … Morgan Wallen. He has had the most popular album in America for eight consecutive weeks. That was not way the script was to go. The great song goes, “No one knows what goes on behind closed doors.” Silence is ...

How much more of this virus ordeal can we take? The all-consuming story of Covid. Shots are in the arm for many stars and millions of the fans, with millions more added every month. The tipping point may have been reached, but it’s not here yet and not likely before ...

Country music has gotten way too serious! Humor is in the Country DNA, but where did it go? Remember Grandpa Jones, Stringbean, Ray Stevens and the great Minnie Pearl? Maybe more than the music itself, Music Row has misplaced its funny bone. Last week at the Country ...

If you were really here in Nashville for this week’s Country Radio Seminar (CRS), you would be chilled to be here. You Northerners make fun of us, but it has been ice filled fun the past few days. Deadly and miserable for so many people in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and ...

As an ice storm approaches Music City and the coldest part of winter freezes most of you, let’s call a time out! First, the forbidden subject of Morgan Wallen. In the world of crisis PR management, this was a tough one. You’ve heard the term by now, “cancel ...

Getting the Coronavirus vaccine today. Nervous a little, but maybe this is the first sign of getting life back to something recognizable. The musical chess pieces have been moving around the board in the last few days. Garth Brooks moved his Las Vegas show this week to ...