#34 - Justin Moore - Small Town USA - 2009

Justin Moore did a show with us here at WQMX before anyone really ever heard of him.  He was a last minute addition to I think a Luke Bryan charity show at Tangier. (And I think he tripped over Luke's guitar exiting the stage).  After he performed I recall a grown man about 40 in the back hallway talking with Justin almost in tears about how his music touched him while he was performing.  I never forgot that, and we've never forgotten Justin.  This song is about as good of a debut song as you can have.  This of course went #1 and should have.  This song found the perfect artist to record it, and sometimes it all just comes together. This song is still a real favorite of mine, and yours, and possesses that very rare gene of not wearing out its welcome. This song may be played on the radio for 20 more years.  It's highly relatable in every regard and builds nice momentum as all really good hit songs do. This was the springboard for Moore to go on great things.  I think a whole lot of new performers would have loved to have this gem.  Perfect song to launch a new artist.

Last Week #34

April Showers bring May Flowers...  Supposedly, but with snow in the forecast for tonight and all this rain????  

I kind of expect May to be bright, shiny, sunny, and country blaring to kick off concert season. 

With so many of the area venues lining up huge shows...

Like Blossom and they are adding shows all the time...

Dusty Armadillo has a huge weekend with Drake White and The Lacs.  See who else is coming by Clicking Here.

The Country Fest is 40 some days away, The Neon Nights is just over a 100 days away in August, and Dragway 42 Music Festival is at the end of July.

The Agora Cleveland, Jacobs Pavilion, Youngstown Foundation Amphitheater and so many more great venues...

Even Akron Park Series is ready to go...

 Now just need Mother Nature to cooperate.  Happy Spring and Summer Concert Season!

 Well do you think it's possible to make bacon even better?  I'm willing to try if you are!

Let's Make Perfect Bacon

Darius Rucker - Fires Don't Start Themselves

We have been playing this song for a couple weeks.  I'm a Darius Rucker fan. I love his easy sounding singing style that makes it all look and sound so easy. In this current era of singers over singing songs in all kinds of formats, it's nice to hear a true vocalist that completely understands that louder is not better, better is better.  Rucker knows where the notes are an finds them the first time with ease.  He is one of the best singers no matter what format you're talking about right now.  This is just a nice song that feels good to hear, and we need more of that right now. 

After being away for a while, it's great to hear him back on the charts again -  Grab a coffee and earbuds the catch this nice new song.

ICYMI - My articles from this week on WQMX.com   -  Thanks for reading!

50 Favorites April Recap

The Browns - Now What?

Happy Birthday - Tim McGraw

50 Favorites From 40 Years #34

The Forgotten Jukebox D-19

Country Music Memory Lane - Cinco de Mayo Songs

Wynn At The Movies And More

Box Office Results - Mario -  (40 million)

#2 - Evil Dead Rise  -  (13 Million)

#3 - Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret -   (6.8 million)

Big George Foreman - Bombed, opening in 11th place with $3 million  (Story) 

New This Week - Guardians Of The Galaxy 3 / Love Again

Rihanna - Will voice Smurfette in a new animated Smurfs movie  (Story) 

Tom Hanks - Was the 4^th to audition for Forest Gump - Travolta - Bill Murray – Chevy Chase were the first three  (Story)

Sylvester Stallone - Has signed on to star in a sequel to the 1993 action flick Cliffhanger  (Story)

Pedro Pascal / Denzel Washington - And others are in talks to join the upcoming Gladiator sequel (Story) 

This Weekend – Check out my Country Music Memory Lane  (link)

Also - My 50 Favorites Over 40+ Years This Week #34  (Link)

Tim McGraw turns 56 today - how is this possible?

Let's revisit my Mega Star Series on him!

Mega Star - Tim McGraw

Reba McEntire and Brooks & Dunn are celebrating the 25th anniversary of their hit "If You See Him, If You See Her" with an acoustic version of the song. This version will appear on Reba's album Not That Fancy, which comes out on October 6th, but you can take a listen to it below!

Reba will also be releasing her book Not That Fancy: Simple Lessons on Living, Loving, Eating, and Dusting Off Your Boots ,which will be released on October 10th. Click here to pre-order!

The list of performers at this year's ACM Awards has been announced! The list is great!!! It includes:

Jason Aldean, Kane Brown, Luke Combs, Cody Johnson, Miranda Lambert, JoDee Messina, Ashley McBryde, Jelly Roll, Cole Swindell, Keith Urban, Morgan Wallen, Lainey Wilson, and Bailey Zimmerman!

This list reads like an amazing music festival, not an awards show! Not only that, Dolly Parton & Garth Brooks are hosting...AND Dolly says she will debut her 1st single off her rock album! This will be a great night indeed! It will stream live from The Ford Center in Frisco,TX (Dallas) May 11th on Amazon Prime Video and then will be available the next day on FreeVee.

Today's Trailer Thursday features a teaser for the next season of Black Mirror and you guys.

I AM OBSESSED.

Black Mirror is some of the best television that you can stream. Almost every episode is poignant, interesting, and disturbing. I think that I am both a better and bleeker person because I watch it, and it's interactive film Bandersnatch. I think about this movie all the time.

 I am excited and frightened and intrigued.

Content Warning: Strong language

Here's the season 6 teaser for Black Mirror: