Scott Wynn

Scott Wynn

Sunday, 25 February 2024 01:27

WYNN - Justin Moore - Writing The Lifestyle


SW small Logo Justin Moore has been on singing songs on WQMX for many years now. You love him and have since his start.  Moore's lastest song, This Is My Dirt is a great example of the reason why.  This is simply terrific in about any way a song can be.  Moore does here what he does a lot.  He sings about what he knows and the kind of lifestyle the bulk of country radio listeners have.  This is spot on.  He writes the lifstyle.

Us Country fans have our own lifestyle and for the most part live in the real world that most people do.  Moreover, we are proud of the life we lead with family, and the things we do and value.  He always seems to know who's listening and that's not as easy as it may seem.  He knows what songs are right for him and his fans and gives it to them.  He celebrates our lifestyle and puts himself and us right in the song.   He's a great story teller -  and that's traditional country and his fans love that about him.

I love that many of his songs are very visual, when you can see yourself right where he's standing at that moment that's golden.  This song "gets it" as this is highly emotive and finds feelings in you that are wide ranging depending on your life and family circumstances.  This does what many GREAT country songs do, "makes 'em cheer up - or makes 'em tear up."

At the end of every year, Sarah and I pick our top five songs of the year.  I know it's February, but this is certainly going to be tough to shove out of mine.  This is just a flat out great country song.  I mean really, really great.

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SW small Logo It's hard to believe this was 16 years ago.  The reason this song is so important is simple.  Although not her first single, this Southern Rock inspired cyclone of a country song delivered Miranda Lambert to us.  She was around a few years before this having moderate success, but nothing like this.  This was her first top ten peaking at #7, which I find staggering since it sold about 3 million copies.  There were some misfires after this but this shoved her career into a very high gear.  Even though Kerosene was earlier and a mild hit that fans liked, this was the gas her engines had been waiting for.  Every single thing she did after this was different and noticed.  It's a career record.  She also completely dominated the awards shows through various academies for years, Grammy's, ACM, CMA and others to the tune of 192 nominations, with 78 wins, simply incredible.  For a generation she was the #1 female act in country music by any measure.  She also became a major musical influencer within the format.  This resonated with hundreds of thousands of people who dealt with or are dealing with domestic abuse situations and made many feel far less powerless and gave them the voice, the strength, or the resolve to get out of it.  I feel Miranda is at her very best when she's in jeans and T-shirts with a guitar and a blazing band behind her with a kick-butt song at the mic.  That's what this is, and made everything else possible.

Last Week #43

 

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Saturday, 09 March 2024 01:17

WYNN - Eat Of The Week

 

SW small Logo Well, St. Patrick's Day is a week away, I thought it a good time to talk the food!  We all eat corned beef once a year or so and this is the holiday to do it.  I love it and it's something I would love to eat more often.  Don't be afraid to make a corned beef, it really isn't that hard and it's delicious! 

Just follow the recipe below!

What Is Corned Beef And How To REALLY Make It!

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Friday, 23 February 2024 01:26

WYNN - Wynn At The Movies And More

Box Office Results - #1 - Bob Marley:One Love   (28 Million)

#2- Madame Web 

#3- Argyle


New This Week – Drive Away Dolls (Coen Brothers)   / Ordinary Angels  (Hilary Swank)

 

Budget – For Madame Web was 80 Million

 

BAFTA - Awards this week, Oppenheimer was the big winner winning 7

 

People's Choice AwardsBarbie -  won Movie of the Year

 

Kate Snow  - Has anchored the Sunday broadcast of NBC Nightly News since 2015 leaving next week

 

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

 

Also - 50 Most Important Country Songs 1980 – Today #43 -  (Link)

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SW small Logo This month the Browns announced they bought 176 acres of land in Brook Park located about 30 seconds from the airport.  It's the site of the once proud and gigantic Ford Casting and Engine Plants that supplied generations with good jobs. It was the home of the legendary 351 Cleveland Engine in the day, with Ford building 34 million engines of various types there since 1951.  In its prime it employed 15,000 people every day.  The plant now is 99% gone but Ford still has some presence there, but nothing like before.

In Its Prime  - Local Legendary Place

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I grew up about 10 minutes from this site in Berea and had friends who's dad or mom worked there.  On one side there is 1-71, on another is I-480, on another are heavily used railroad tracks and Snow Road on the other. Just over the tracks is Route 237 then Hopkins Airport.  And just before 480, there is Brookpark Road. Ever since they tore down much of the plant, I have wondered what was going to happen on this property. The airport can't expand that way, and I suppose they could build millions of square feet of storage warehouses, someone already has on a very small scale.  But the area is incredibly unique.

A domed stadium there?  I know that's charged many people up and I get where they're coming from.  The Browns have always played on the lakefront, it's tradition. The Lakefront is a site like few others in sports, and that's not lost on me.  The Indians/Guardians played there as well for generations, and League Park before that. But today we celebrate them far more at Progressive Field one of MLB's best ballparks.  Many have stated that the purchased site is like the old Coliseum site in Richfield, but it's not at all.  This site is about 10 miles from downtown, where the Coliseum was about 25, but seemed further as it was far more difficult for many to get to.  And there was (and still is) nothing around the Coliseum site, a place we all loved during its wonderful life.

What's interesting about this purchase is this. As where the current stadium is a very unique site and gives the Browns an identity, the new site has great potential if chosen to be among the most unique areas in sports if done properly, and that would be the key.  It's a stones throw from the airport, NASA, and a huge MId-West Train rail switch-yard. If you hired the right architects and engineers to do this, and built a dome with a surrounding area, revitalizing the entire area with proper themes and imagination it could be incredible.  But you'd have to do it right, and pay homage to a place that was once exceedingly important to the city, and make it so again. It could become the Browns new identity, on a famous site that personified the work ethic of an entire region matching the team's history.  But all of that would require a lot of really smart, visionary people and governmental cooperation. 

You would also have to make it accessible to ALL roads and interstates because everyone knows the current stadium parking and traffic is a mess. The thoroughfares surrounding this property are major and would all need to be updated around the site.  The RTA station is right there, and you would have to incorporate the Rapid Trains (The Main Red Line) to stop at the stadium on event days.  And it would need easy access to Hopkins.  If you used your head, you could have a brilliant plan here.  And if you decided on this, use those same smart, inventive type of people to reinvent the lakefront downtown and start something great there if the current stadium or site isn't in the plans.

All I am saying here is this. I have no idea who pays for what, how much, or any of that as that's not what this writing is about.  I'm saying if this is where things go, those involved must, must, must do it right and understand the potential to be very different and to own a venue like no other in America.  You'd have a dome, next a major airport, near the I-X Center on the highways.  You could attract any event on earth, and possibly spur a lot growth.  It's also about 5 minutes from the Browns Headquarters, and it's still Cuyahoga County where Brook Park sits. And if you literally drive 30 seconds north you're in the city of Cleveland.

Who knows where the Browns will or not not go, but I know this. This was purchased for a reason, and if you follow the money it generally takes you where you want to go for answers.  If I had to bet on where this is going, I'd say the days on the Lakefront are dwindling down to a few more years.

And if that's right, please do it right.  Really right.

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SW small Logo Merle Haggard recorded a ton of big songs over many decades.  What makes this important, it dares to ask a question I think we've all silently asked at one time another when faced with an overwhelming challenge, like the pandemic or 911.  When this was out a few things were happening.  An ongoing brutal recession with jobs being lost rapidly and forever.  Many people were really hurting and needed a voice and this spoke directly to them.  The Big City album where this is from was a new and reinvented Haggard and was a big commercial and critical success.  This addresses the loss of much that was once perceived as good, and then facing the new, is it better?  But this pivots hard and ends as a song of hope that fans gravitated to.  Much of the feel of what Haggard is singing about has been relatable a few times since, namely subsequent recessions and even the pandemic and 911 with all of us feeling big loss during those times.  I get it, this song is very slow tempo, is sad at times by an artist not played anymore.  But Merle reminds us that life is not always a party, and there are times for rallying words. Granted some here sound dated but time marches on in music.  This #2 hit  - Was an anthem for hard times.

Last Week #44

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Monday, 19 February 2024 01:24

WYNN - Eat Of The Week

SW small Logo For generations the fight has raged on what is better, Pie or Cake?  The answer is YES!  Both are amazing, and both have their place.  If I had to choose, I supposed I'd go Pie.  Strawberry Rhubarb pie to me is a real treat and so is Key Lime.  My two favs.  That's why this is so good!  I love pound cake and Key Lime!  Boom!! 

I fell in love with Pound Cake 30 years ago when I was doing mornings in Lakeland, Florida at WPCV and a listener brought us a fresh pound cake she made with mayo!!!  I couldn't stop eating it.  And now Key Lime??

THIS IS INCREDIBLE! - MAKE THIS!

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Sunday, 18 February 2024 01:42

WYNN - My Weekly Recap

If you missed any of my articles this week from WQMX.com here's a good chance to get caught up. Grab a coffee and ear buds and thanks for reading and listening every day!

It's A New Day

Eat Of The Week

50 Most important Songs 1980-Today - #44

Forgotten Jukebox - RC-24

The Mega Star Series - Ray Charles

BROWNS - Planes, Trains And Once Automobiles

Wynn At The Movies And More!

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Saturday, 17 February 2024 01:34

WYNN - Wynn At The Movies And More

Box Office Results  - #1 - Argyle

#2 - Lisa Frankenstein

#3 - The Beekeeper

New This Week –  Bob Marley: One Love /  Madame Web (Marvel)  / Drift  / The Taste Of Thing

 

The Bob Marley Biopic - $12 million on Wednesday. Breaking a decade-old revenue record for Valentine’s Day occurring midweek.


Taylors Era Movie - It will premiere on Disney+ on March 15th! 

 

Slowest Non-Covid - Weekend ever at movies

 

Taylor Swift - Will direct a movie she wrote as soon as the Era's tour is over

 

Travis Kelce - He's makes his debut as a film producer. March 9th - My Dead Friend Zoe

 

Record - The New Deadpool / Wolverine trailer is the most viewed ever in a 24 hour period 365 Million

 The Oscars - Getting a new category. Beginning with 2026's Academy Awards, for Achievement in Casting

 

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

 

Also - 50 Most Important Country Songs 1980 – Today #44  (Link)

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February was Black History Month, and all month I featured artists that contributed greatly to country music over the years.  It was great to look back on these amazing artists and showcase them.  In case you missed any of them, here is a recap of who was featured and where.

The Mega Star Series - Charley Pride

The Mega Star Series - Ray Charles

The Mega Star Series - Lionel Richie

Country Music Memory Lane - Big Al Downing

Forgotten Jukebox - Seven Spanish Angels

Forgotten Jukebox - Stuck On You

Forgotten Jukebox - Too Many Times

Forgotten Jukebox - Deep River Woman

50 Most Important Country Songs 1980 - Today - #45

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