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September 2020: The Value of Music

September 18, 2020September 18, 2020 Brad Beheler

As a music fan the past two decades have been revolutionary. Any song that has ever been created is now at our fingertips. There’s no clunking around a large CaseLogic full of cd’s or placing a distractingly large faux wooden tower of them in the living room next to the entertainment center. This isn’t some plain nostalgic waxing about the good ol’ days. It’s merely to point out that we used to have to work much harder at being a fan. You had to actually go to a record store and purchase an album. At the height of cd’s, that

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Honky Tonking in a Pandemic with the Randy Rogers Band

September 8, 2020September 15, 2020 Brad Beheler 0 Comments

The house band faded out from a mostly accurate cover of a Gary Allan song just in time for Luke Combs “Beer Never Broke My Heart” to swell from the house PA. The lights were bright. The smoke was nonexistent. A noticeable number of chairs had been removed. And a sea of trendy, masked bandit look-alikes strolled around the grounds of the world’s largest honky tonk as if the past six months hadn’t happened. Aside from the smaller crowd and masks on every face, it really did feel quite…normal. As the concert experience in Texas continues to strive for a

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Shaker Hymns – The Ties That Bind

September 1, 2020September 15, 2020 Brad Beheler 0 Comments

The genre of southern rock had been moribund and dormant until the ascendance of bands such as Cross Canadian Ragweed, Whiskey Myers and Blackberry Smoke. Despite the best efforts of bands such as Copper Chief and Midnight River Choir, the sub genre has ebbed and flowed around these parts as it has throughout much of the country. Those bands got country and funky to break through. Southern rock has mostly been relegated to the novelty, county fair, discount bin of the music world as bands like Skynyrd shed original members but kept playing the same songs. The freshness of the

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August 2020: The Music Remains

August 5, 2020September 18, 2020 Brad Beheler 0 Comments

The one thing that remains constant is music. The entire world has been on fire for the past six months, and the band plays on. One could make all the band on the Titanic playing as it sinks analogies he or she wants, but it does not remove the irrevocable fact that it is true. Time and time again during all of the trials and tribulations we are all experiencing, music has been the thing we have all turned to. There were blips of Tiger King and sports relaunching, but where television has looked different and movie theaters are nonexistent.

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Charlie Daniels

July 6, 2020August 5, 2020 Brad Beheler 0 Comments

*Charlie Daniels passed away this morning at the age of 83. The 1970’s in the American south was truly a time of innovation, recognition and acclaim. A Georgia peanut farmer won the White House, Muscle Shoals became the center of the music world, a couple bands from Jacksonville would create and expand an entirely new genre. And there would be a session musician and master of anything with strings from Wilmington, North Carolina named Charlie Daniels that would end up tying all of that transcendence together. Daniels first success as a musician came in the studios of Nashville, but it

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