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"Friends are God's way of taking care of us."

These  are clean jokes. However,
They are,
PG - Not intended for  younger readers - PG

I always know God won't give me more than I can handle,
but there are times I wish He didn't trust me quite so much.


God, grant me the Senility to forget the people
I never liked ,
The good fortune to run into the ones I do,
And the eyesight to tell the difference.



THURSDAY  JANUARY 3,2008


THOUGHT FOR TODAY: I dislike arguments of any kind.
They are always vulgar,and often very convincing.


Young Judy was having trouble with her computer, so she called Jim, the
computer guy, over to her desk.
Jim clicked a couple buttons and solved the problem.
As he was walking away, Judy called after him, "So, what was wrong?"
And he replied, "It was an I.D Ten T Error."
A puzzled _expression ran riot over Judy's face.
"An I.D Ten T Error? What's that ... in case I need to fix it again??"
He gave her a grin... "Haven't you ever heard of an ID Ten T Error
before?"
"No," replied Judy.
"Write it down," he said, "and I think you'll figure it out."
(She wrote...) I D 1 0 T
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Try to squash a rumor is like trying to un-ring a bell.
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Old age is no place for sissies
One of the world's greatest scientists was also recognized as the original absent-minded professor.

One day, on board a train, he was unable to find his ticket. The conductor said, "Take it easy. You'll find it."

When the conductor returned, the professor still couldn't find the ticket. The conductor, recognizing the famous scientist, said, "I'm sure you bought a ticket. Forget about it."

"You're very kind," the professor said, "but I must find it, otherwise I won't know where to get off."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Adam was walking outside of the Garden of Eden with Cane and Abel when the boys were young. Cane and Abel looked into the garden and viewed waterfalls, lovely birds, lush forests and fruit trees bending over because of the large amounts of fruit on them.

Then they took a long look at where they lived at. It was dry, dusty with weeds and sickly-looking trees.

"Daddy? Why don't we live in there instead of out here?" they asked innocently.

Adam said, "Well sons. Eve and I use to live in there at one time. But your mother ate us out of house and home."
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Setting off the alarm while passing through a metal detector at McCarran Airport in Las Vegas, a blonde traveler was asked by a security agent if she had any change in her pockets.

"Gee," the blonde says, turning towards her husband, I told you we should of gone to Florida instead.....everyone here expects to be tipped."
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Little Johnny

Little Johnny watched the science teacher start an experiment with worms.
Four worms were placed into four separate jars.
The first worm was put into a jar of alcohol.
The second worm was put into a jar of cigarette smoke.
The third worm was put into a jar of sperm.
The fourth worm was put into a jar of soil.

After one day, these were the results:
The first worm in alcohol - dead.
Second worm in cigarette smoke - dead.
Third worm in sperm - dead.
Fourth worm in soil - alive.

So the Science teacher asked the class -

"What can you learn from this experiment."
Little Johnny quickly raised his hand and said,
"As long as you drink, smoke and have sex, you won't have worms".
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My roommate, Tom, who had never dated much, finally had a chance to take out one of the school's prettiest young women. However, the event caught him by surprise, and he had no money. He quickly sent off a telegram to his recently divorced father; "Have date. Send money" Back came the answer; "Have money. Send date."
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On a U.S. cruiser the officer of the deck asked the starboard lookout, "What would you do if a sailor was washed overboard?"

"I'd yell 'Man overboard,'" answered the lookout snappily.

"Good," said the officer. "Now what would you do if an officer fell overboard?"

The lookout asked, "Which one, sir?"
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A trucker stops for red light and a blonde girl catches up. She knocks
on the door and the trucker lowers the window. The girl says, "Hi, my
name is Heather and you are losing some of your load." The trucker
ignores her and proceeds down the street. The trucker stops for another
red light and the girl again catches up. She knocks on the door and the
trucker lowers the window and she says, "Hi my name is Heather and you
are losing some of your load!" He ignores her again and continues down
the street.

The trucker stops for still another red light and the girl catches up
again all out of breath. She knocks on the door and the trucker lowers
the window. Again she says, "Hi, my name is Heather and you are losing
some of your load!"

He dismisses her and starts off down the street, then stops. The trucker
gets out of the truck, approaches the blond girl and says: "Hi, my name
is Kevin and I am driving a SALT TRUCK!"
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There was a teenage boy who worked in the produce section of the local
market. A man came in and asked to buy half a head of lettuce. The boy
said he would go ask his manager about the matter. So he walked into the
back and said, "There's some jerk out there who wants to buy only a half
a head of lettuce." As he was finishing saying this he turned around to
find the man standing right behind him, so he added, "and this here
gentleman wants to buy the other half..."

The manager okayed the deal and the man went on his way.

Later the manager called on the boy and said, "You almost got yourself
in a lot of trouble earlier, but I must say I was impressed with the way
you got yourself out of it. You think on your feet and we like that
around here. Where are you from son?"

The boy replied, "Canada, Sir."

"Oh really? Why did you leave Canada?" asked the manager.

The boy replied, "They're all just up-tight homely women and hockey
players up there."

"Really," replied the manager, "My wife is from Canada!"

The boy replied, "No kidding! What team did she play for?"
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At her father's wake, a woman told her priest that ever since she was a
child she and her father had discussed life after death. They had agreed
that whomever went first would contact the other. They had discussed
this again just two weeks before his death.

He died in her home and a few days after his death the smoke alarm in
her garage went off. She had lived there 28 years and it had never gone
off before. She couldn't turn it off so she called the security company
that installed it.

The next morning the smoke alarm sounded again and the reason finally
dawned on her. She said aloud, "Ok dad, I missed the signal yesterday
but I get it now! Thanks for letting me know that you are safe on the
other side. Now turn the thing off so I don't have to call the security
company again." The alarm fell silent.

She immediately called her priest to tell him the good news. His
response: "Dear lady, if every time your father sends you a message he
sets off the smoke alarm, just where in H*ll do you think he's calling
from?"
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One day, after a man had his annual physical, the doctor came out and
said, "You had a great check-up. Is there anything that you'd like to
talk about or ask me?"

"Well," he said, "I was thinking about getting a vasectomy."

"That's a big decision! Have you talked it over with your
family?" "Yeah, we took a vote... and they're in favor of it 15 to 2."
~~~~~~~~~

 

 

 

**** ON THIS DAY ****
FIRST DAY

Remembering back
to the first day we met,
I had been for a swim
I was still very wet

You offered me your towel
to help me get dry,
I took it gladly
without wondering why

You sat down beside me
we began to talk,
then you suggested
we go for a walk

Now a long time has passed
as with many many mile,
the day has finally come
when we walk down the aisle

© abritelite
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

EVERGREEN

It seems like forever
that I've been sitting here,
gazing upon the waters
that runs crystal clear

As it trickles through my toes
that dangle over the side,
I watch a leaf float by
taking butterflies for a ride

The birds in the distance
are mating or making nest,
there is a deafening silence
as the world takes its rest

The light from the stars
and the moon up above,
with a radiance of colour
show the meaning of love

I could stay here forever
in this quiet autumn serene,
watching autumn's nature grow
in this beautiful evergreen

© abritelite
***
When my hair is thin and silvered,
And my time of toil is through,
When I've many years behind me,
And ahead of me, just a few.

I shall want to sit, I reckon,
Sort of dreaming in the sun,
And recall the roads I've travelled,
And the many things I've done.

I hope there'll be no pictures
That I'll hate to loook upon,
When the time to paint it better,
Or to wipe it out, is gone.

I hope there'll be no vision,
Of a hasty word I've said,
That has left a trail of sorrow,
Like a whip welt, sore and red.

And I hope my old age dreaming
Will bring back no bitter scene,
Of a time when I was selfish,
Or a time when I was mean.

When I'm getting old and feeble,
And I'm far along life's way;
I don't want to sit regretting...
Any bygone yesterday.

I am painting now the picture
That I'll want someday to see;
I am filling in a canvas,
That will soon come back to me.

Though nothing great is on it,
And though nothing there is fine;
I shall want to look it over,
When I'm old, and call it mine.

So I do not dare to leave it,
While the paint is warm and wet,
With a single thing upon it,
That I later will regret!

~Author unknown...
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Todays links:
The Greatest MistakeI Never Made
http://www.wtv-zone.com/Mary/THEGREATESTMISTAKE.HTML

Hello God Via Patricia
http://gospelman.info/christian/HelloGOD.html

Take Me Back To The Fifties Via Rose
http://oldfortyfives.com/TakeMeBackToTheFifties.htm

Prosterity and Health
http://www.shangralafamilyfun.com/BibleStudy/prosperityhealth.html

Mystery Revealed
http://www.shangralafamilyfun.com/BibleStudy/mysteryrevealed.html

Network/Computer Glossery
http://www.wtcs.org/snmp4tpc/glossary.htm


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**** COUNTRY CALENDAR ****

-3-

1917 - Leon McAuliffe 1917~1988, Western Swing bandleader, and steel guitarist for Bob Wills, born Houston, Texas.

1936 - Ray Elwood Goins, of the "Lonesome Pine Fiddlers" born Bramwell, West Virginia.

1950 - Sam Phillips opened the Sun Recording studio and label in Memphis.

1957 - Brenda Lee recorded the Hugh Ashley penned "One Step at a Time" for Decca Records. The single became "Little Miss Dynamite’s" first country music chart record, topping out at #15. During her career Brenda charted a total of 35 hits on the country charts.

1959 - Rusty Golden, of "The Goldens" born in Brewton, Alabama.

1964 - Naomi Judd and Michael Ciminella eloped.

1966 - Buck Owens released his Capitol single "Waitin’ In Your Welfare Line" b/w "In The Palm Of Your Hand." Welfare Line charted 19 days later, went to #1 for 7 weeks. Buck Owens, Don Rich, and Nat Stuckey wrote the song, it became Buck's 31st chart single. The B side Palm Of Your Hand charted in February and topped out at #43. Buck wrote the song.

1969 - Nikki Nelson lead vocals, and guitarist for "Highway 101," was born today in San Diego, California.

1969 - Judy Collins Elektra album "Wildflowers" was certified Gold by the RIAA.

1975 - John Denver's RCA single "Back Home Again" was certified Gold by the RIAA. John wrote the song, it charted in 1974 and went to #1. This was John's 5th chart single.

1981 - Felton Jarvis 1934~1981, age 46, RCA record producer, died in Nashville, from a stroke. Jarvis produced Elvis Presley’s sessions from 1966~1977. Felton Jarvis was laid to rest in Mount Hope Cemetery, Franklin, Tennessee.

1985 - Dallas Jones 1889~1985, age 96, of the "Leake County Revelers" died 1985. The Leake County Revelers were a country music string band popular in the 1920’s and 1930’s. The members were from the area of Sebastopol, Mississippi, led by fiddler Will Gilmer, with R O. Mosley on mandolin and banjo-mandolin, Jim Wolverton on 5-string banjo, and Dallas Jones on guitar. The band was formed in 1926.

1985 - John Hiatt released his album "Warming Up to the Ice Age."

1987 - Vince Gill, Holly Dunn, Kenny Rogers and Roy Acuff were the featured guests on Hee Haw."

1988 - Doc Hopkins 1899~1988, singer, guitarist, banjo, and mandolin player, of the Cumberland Ridge Runners died today at the age of 87.

1989 - Johnny Cash was released from Baptist Hospital in Nashville after having bypass surgery.

1991 - Mercury Records signed Billy Ray Cyrus to his first recording contract. Billy’s first chart hit for the label came the following year with "Achy Breaky Heart." Don Von Tress wrote the song, it charted in April 1992, went to #1 for five weeks, and remained on the charts for 20 weeks.

1993 - Rome Johnson 1916~1993, King Records recording artist died at age 77.

1998 - Grandpa Jones suffered a severe stroke after completing his portion of a Grand Ole Opry Show. When Grandpa regained consciousness back stage, he looked up at all of the concerned Opry staff that was surrounding him, as he laid on the floor and said, "Well, at least it’s good to know I can still draw a crowd." This would be his final Opry appearance; Louis Marshall Jones died the following month.

2004 - Reba McEntire’s MCA album "Room to Breathe" was certified Gold by the RIAA.

2007 - Talmadge Tubb 1925 ~ 2007, age 81, songwriter, recording artist a.k.a. (Billy Talmadge) and nephew of Ernest Tubb died at Providence Hospital in El Paso, Texas.


 **** COUNTRY MUSIC NEWS ****
Record Industry Now Going After Personal Users
     This has got to stop. They are violating our civil rights.When they tell me
I can't copy a highly over priced CD I purchased,with my money, to my computer....... well the war is about to start,cause I'm gonna do it anyway.
  
As for as
 I
am concerned I can do anything I want to with it.Please read
this story,We need to support this guy.
   What we really need to do is quit buying the music.Not just country, but everything.They have milked us for years.When they start
picking on single mothers for huge amounts for so called damages,well I think ya see my point. It's just a crying shame we can't buy our music straight from the artist, so they get their rightful share.If that were the case ,They wouldn't need to spend as much time on the road and more time with their families


The Washington Post reports, that despite over 20,000 lawsuits filed against music fans in the years since they started downloading free tunes online rather than buying CDs from record companies, the recording industry has utterly failed to stop the decline of the record album or the rise of digital music sharing. However, each month finds a news release from the industry's lobby, the Recording Industry Association of America, touting a new batch of letters to college students and others demanding a settlement payment and threatening a legal battle.

This brings us to the unusual case where an Arizona recipient of an RIAA letter has fought back in court rather than write a check to avoid hefty legal fees, the industry is taking its argument against music sharing one step further: In legal documents in its federal case against Jeffrey Howell, a Scottsdale, AZ, man who kept a collection of about 2,000 music recordings on his personal computer, the industry maintains that it is illegal for someone who has legally purchased a CD to transfer that music into his computer.

Ira Schwartz, the industry's lawyer in the case, , argues in a brief filed earlier this month that the MP3 files Howell made on his computer from legally bought CDs are "unauthorized copies" of copyrighted recordings.

Meanwhile, Ray Beckerman, a New York lawyer who represents six clients who have been sued by the RIAA stated, "I couldn't believe it when I read that," says "The basic principle in the law is that you have to distribute actual physical copies to be guilty of violating copyright. But recently, the industry has been going around saying that even a personal copy on your computer is a violation."

RIAA web site states: "If you make unauthorized copies of copyrighted music recordings, you're stealing. You're breaking the law and you could be held legally liable for thousands of dollars in damages."

What do you think?
Then they need to go ahead and file the law suits or just plain shut up.
To me it seems that it is nothing short of extortion.If they sued one,which they have(about 20,000) they should sue us all.That would effectively bring the court system to a halt. What are your thoughts?No names ,real or otherwise will be printed ;If you wish YOUR OPINION will not be printed at all....Jim
Sorry I get a little worked up concerning things I am passionate about.It's the redneck showing.

Hey, Patty there's some good reads here

Gene Autry Centennial: Back in the Saddle Again
By Edward Morris
© 2008 CMA Close Up News Service / Country Music Association, Inc.

Throughout 2007, the centennial year of Gene Autry's birth, fans and historians recalled the course-changing impact this "singing cowboy" had on Country Music. Autry was the original "hat act" and the man who cemented the "Western" in what used to be called Country and Western Music. As such, he is the subject of recent full-length biographies, a film book, tribute albums, a major museum exhibit and other celebrations.

According to historian Douglas B. Green, best known as "Ranger Doug" of Riders In The Sky, Autry's contribution to Country Music was to "popularize it to a whole subset of American culture that wouldn't have cared much about it if he hadn't come along. . He already had a million-selling record in the Country field, such as it was in the day, when he started making movies. He was a big, big Country star of his era. He was the next Jimmie Rodgers, I think, in everyone's mind, until he took the turn to Westerns."

Orvon Grover Autry was born on Sept. 29, 1907, a few miles outside of Tioga, Texas, to a father who dealt in livestock with varying degrees of financial success and a mother who would teach him to play guitar. The family's shaky economic footing, his biographers have said, endowed the youngster with a zeal for security. "It always surprises me when people seem surprised by my success in business," Autry wrote in his memoir, Back in the Saddle Again. "Actually working with numbers was what I did best. What I did less well was sing, act and play the guitar."

In 1928, by which time he had become serious about performing, Autry took time off from his job as a railroad telegrapher and went to New York. His plans were to seek a job in radio and possibly win a recording contract. While neither transpired, he did make some music business contacts, who encouraged him to polish his act and find his own style. He returned to New York the following year and made his first recordings for Columbia Records. At that time, he was clearly under the sway of Jimmie Rodgers; it would take a few more years for his Western persona to develop.

Autry scored his first hit in 1932 with "That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine," a duet he recorded with his mentor, Jimmy Long. At about the same time, the singer joined the cast of the WLS "National Barn Dance" radio show in Chicago, a move that would expand the market for his songs, recordings, songbooks and personalized guitars to millions of fans. His growing popularity earned him a singing role in Ken Maynard's 1934 movie, "In Old Santa Fe." The next year saw him star in the bizarre sci-fi Western serial, "The Phantom Empire." From there, it was just a short gallop to cowboy mega stardom. Autry appeared in 93 feature films in addition to the public listening to him on his "Melody Ranch" radio show broadcast weekly on the CBS Radio Network from 1940 to 1956.

In a 1982 review of reissued albums of cowboy music, New York Times critic Robert Shelton noted, "The Hollywood success of Gene Autry and Roy Rogers had an important side effect. White rural musicians, who had tended to dress in demeaning hillbilly costumes or in casual work clothes when they performed in the 1920s, suddenly began buying Stetson hats, chaps, colorfully embroidered Western shirts and other dude cowboy paraphernalia."

Although the business-savvy Autry would branch from movies into many other enterprises, including ownership of the California Angels baseball team, music remained a mainstay of his career into the 1950s. Autry made 640 recordings, nearly half of which he wrote or co-wrote, which sold in excess of 100 million copies, including the first single ever commemorated as Gold. His classics included "The Last Roundup" (1933), "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" (1935), "South of the Border" (1939), "Back in the Saddle Again" (1940), "Don't Fence Me In" and "At Mail Call Today" (1945), "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You" (1946), "Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane)" (1948), "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (1949) and "Peter Cottontail" and "Frosty the Snow Man" (1950).

Country artists as varied as the rough-hewn Johnny Cash and the smooth-crooning Marty Robbins looked to Autry as a musical and stylistic role model. He was the first major movie star to produce and star in a weekly television series and he is the only entertainer to have all five stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: one each for radio, recording, motion pictures, television and live theatre/performance. Inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1969, Autry died in 1998 at the age of 91.

To remind generations who never heard Autry in his prime of his significance to Country Music, Rounder Records has reissued Riders In The Sky's 1996 album, Public Cowboy No. 1. Newly subtitled a Centennial Salute to Gene Autry, it became the focal point of this year's Riders' tour, which included a stop at the Hollywood Bowl for a performance of Autry's music with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Riders In The Sky also contributed a track to Boots Too Big to Fill: A Tribute to Gene Autry, released in June by Rainy Day Records. This collection of Western standards features performances by John Anderson, Glen Campbell, Charlie Daniels, Vince Gill, Connie Smith, Marty Stuart, Pam Tillis, Ian Tyson and several others, including Charlotte Autry, a cousin to Gene, and a more distant relative, Fresno Mayor Alan Autry .

Two recent Autry biographies - Holly George-Warren's Public Cowboy No. 1: The Life and Times of Gene Autry and Don Cusic's Gene Autry: His Life and Career - both dig deeper into the singer's background than he did in his own 1978 memoir. "Throughout his long life," Ranger Doug observed in his Singing in the Saddle: The History of the Singing Cowboy, "Autry remained indifferent about discussing his music and the passion that drove him as a youth. His autobiography hardly touched on his musical origins."

"Gene Autry changed the look of Country Music," said Cusic, a professor in Belmont University's Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business in Nashville. "The most enduring symbol of Country Music is the cowboy, and Autry is responsible for that, although of course he didn't do it by himself. The story of Country Music can be seen as the story of a fight for respect, and Autry gave Country Music a lot of respect. He made it appealing to young people growing up in the city, and he represented wholesome values and a 'do the right thing' ethos."

Two museums observed the Autry centennial year through special programs. The Gene Autry Oklahoma Museum, located appropriately in Gene Autry, Okla., staged a five-day film and music festival in September, with concerts by Riders In The Sky. Also featured on the program was Johnny Western, who had toured with Autry in the '50s and remained his lifelong friend. Other festival highlights included appearances by Western actors James Drury, Dick Jones and Dale Robertson .

Meanwhile, the Autry National Center in Los Angeles, formerly the Gene Autry Museum of Western Heritage, continues to showcase its exhibit, "Gene Autry and the Twentieth Century West," through Jan. 13, 2008.

Perhaps the most succinct summation of the man who rode the magnificent horse Champion to glory is inscribed on his plaque at the Country Music Hall of Fame. It says, in part: "America's great singing cowboy paved the way for others with his Western songs on radio and in the movies, where he set box office records. He was among the first Country and Western performers to win world-wide acclaim. Born a cowboy, he overcame every adversity to move to the top of his field, always lending dignity to the industry."

On the Web:
geneautry.com,
autrynationalcenter.org,
geneautryokmuseum.com



Jimmy Dickens, Gene Watson and the Farewell Party Band will headline two performances The Llano Country Opry

The Llano Country Opry will be staged at the Lantex Theater in Llano, on Saturday, January 12. Little Jimmy Dickens, Gene Watson and the Farewell Party Band will headline two performances at the historic theater.


Showtimes are 2:30 PM and 7:30 PM. Advance tickets are $20.00 and are on sale at the Llano and Kingsland Chamber of Commerce, Llano National Bank, KNEL radio or by calling (325) 247-5354.

Less than 100 tickets remain available for the two performances.

Country Music Hall of Famer Little Jimmy Dickens is the master of the country novelty song, as well as a renowned ballad singer. He also known for his diminutive stature -- he's less than five feet tall -- and his affection for flamboyant, rhinestone-studded outfits and country humor. He managed to have hits in every decade between the 1940s and the 1970s, and he became one of the Grand Ole Opry's most popular performers.

Dickens was the 13th child of a West Virginian farmer. During his childhood, he fell in love with music and had a dream of performing on the Grand Ole Opry. He began performing professionally while he was a student at the University of West Virginia in the late '30s, singing on a local radio station. Dickens left school shortly after he received his regular radio job. He began traveling around the country, singing on radio shows in Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan under the name Jimmy the Kid. Roy Acuff heard Dickens sing on a radio show in Saginaw, MI, and invited him to sing on the Grand Ole Opry.

In 1949, Dickens -- who was now using the name Little Jimmy Dickens -- became a permanent member of the Grand Ole Opry. That year, he also signed a record contract with Columbia Records, releasing his first single, "Take an Old Cold Tater and Wait," in the spring of 1949. The song became a Top Ten hit and launched a string of hit novelty, ballad, and honky tonk singles that lasted for a year, including "Country Boy," "A-Sleeping at the Foot of the Bed," "Hillbilly Fever," and "My Heart's Bouquet."

Early in the '50s, he formed a band called the Country Boys, which featured a steel guitar, two lead guitars, and drums. With their spirited traditional country approach and vague rockabilly inflections, the band didn't sound like their Nashville contemporaries. In 1954, he would enjoy one of his biggest records with “Out Behind The Barn.”

Dickens bounced back to the Top Ten with the ballad "The Violet and the Rose" in 1962. Three years later, he had his biggest hit, "May the Bird of Paradise Fly up Your Nose." The single topped the country charts and crossed over to number 15 on the pop charts. He followed that with his next single, "Where Were You When the Ship Hit the Sand?”

In 1968, he stopped recording for Columbia, signing with Decca Records, where he had more hits in the late '60s and early '70s. In 1971, he moved to United Artists and began to concentrate on performing as his main creative outlet. Dickens continued to tour and perform at the Grand Ole Opry, becoming one of the most beloved characters in country music.

“I don’t tour very often,” Dickens said from his Nashville home. “I just celebrated my 86 birthday. It has been years since I have been to Texas, and I decided that I would accept Tracy's offer and come and see all of my friends down there.”

Gene Watson was born in Palestine, Texas, and raised in Paris, Texas, in a musical family. He first worked as a professional at the age of 13. In 1963, he moved to Houston, where he found daytime employment in car engine and bodywork repairs. He still owns a Houston mechanic shop.

During the evenings, he continued to work the dances and clubs throughout the Houston area. He became a very popular honky-tonk singer around the local clubs, such as the Dynasty, where he was resident for several years. He recorded for labels including Reeder, Wide World and Stoneway before gaining his first country hit with "Bad Water" on the Resco label in 1975.

Capitol Records then signed him and Watson had a Top 10 country hit with "Love In The Hot Afternoon". Further Top 10 hits followed, including "Paper Rosie", "One Sided Conversation", "Farewell Party", "Should I Come Home?" and "Nothing Sure Looked Good On You".

Watson moved to MCA Records and his recording of "Fourteen Carat Mind" gave him his first US country number 1. He moved to Epic in 1985, gaining a number 5 hit with "Memories To Burn", but changed to Warner Brothers Records in 1988, where he immediately repeated the success with "Don't Waste It On The Blues".

Watson is a member of the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame. His awards are many, but his most important contribution to the industry is his voice. He still sings just the way he did twenty years ago. His fans still come out in and he sells out many of his shows.

Watson is at his best with ballads and with his band, the Farewell Party, he has become a favorite of George Jones and George Strait. He continues to perform over one hundred shows per year. He has also just released a brand new album with his two singles already receiving extensive radio airplay.

Tracy Pitcox will MC the show.

For more information about the Llano or Mason Country Opry, log on to www.heartoftexascountry.com.




Rhonda Vincent, 7-time IBMA Female Vocalist of the Year Winner, to Release Seventh Rounder Album 'Good Thing Going' on January 8th

New album features duets with Keith Urban and Russell Moore

“…the thrillingly bold singer and mandolinist…”
New York Times

Burlington, MA – Rhonda Vincent – the fiery vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter dubbed “the new queen of bluegrass” by the Wall Street Journal – is set to release her new album Good Thing Going on January 8, 2008. In addition to receiving an unprecedented seven consecutive “Female Vocalist of the Year” awards from the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA), being named IBMA’s 2001 “Entertainer of the Year,” and being the co-author of the 2004 IBMA “Song of the Year,” Vincent was nominated for a 2005 Grammy® award for “Best Bluegrass Album” for Ragin’ Live. Good Thing Going follows up her two 2006 Rounder releases, All American Bluegrass Girl and her first holiday album, Beautiful Star: A Christmas Collection.

Since her first Rounder release, 2000’s Back Home Again, Vincent has met with increasing acclaim for her dynamic, infectious take on bluegrass. Her gift for balancing classic bluegrass sounds with subtle contemporary touches is featured throughout Good Thing Going. Gleaming with hope, resilience, and gratitude, Vincent presents a set of songs that range from timelessly straight-ahead bluegrass to effervescent swing and heartfelt ballads. Joining her on the album are the members of her stellar road band the Rage on several cuts, and some very special guests including Jesse McReynolds (Jim & Jesse), Russell Moore (III Tyme Out), Bryan Sutton, Becky Issacs, Kathy Chiavola and country music impresario James Stroud. The album was co-produced by Rhonda and her brother Darrin Vincent (of Dailey & Vincent), at Rhonda’s own studio, Adventure Studios in Nashville.

The 12 tracks that make up Good Thing Going include five originals or co-writes, alongside a range of contemporary and classic cover tracks. Good Thing Going is her most personal, autobiographical project yet. “I have never written five songs to include on an album,” she remarks. “I have to be inspired to write a song…but there’s been no shortage of inspiration lately.” From the hard-driving bluegrass “Hit Parade of Love” (an old Jimmy Martin tune and longtime concert favorite) to tender balladry “I Give My Love to You” (a touching original ballad, performed as a duet with Russell Moore) to the rollicking, playful autobiographical title track and the concert favorite, “Bluegrass Saturday Night” Rhonda proves once again she is the queen of bluegrass.

Vincent will continue her ongoing U.S. tour in 2008 in support of Good Thing Going starting on January 18th. For a complete schedule go to www.rhondavincent.com or www.rounder.com.

Track list for Good Thing Going:
1. I’m Leavin*
2. Good Thing Going*
3. I Give All My Love to You (with Russell Moore)*
4. Bluegrass Saturday Night*
5. I Will See You Again
6. Who’s Cryin’ Baby
7. Scorn Of A Lover*
8. Just One Of A Kind
9. World’s Biggest Fool
10. I Gotta Start Somewhere
11. Hit Parade Of Love
12. The Water Is Wide (with keith urban)

*original or co-written by Rhonda Vincent



**** Amy's Kitchen ****
  

WINTER SALAD W/ SMOKED HAM & POMEGRANATE
   

  
1 medium red onion, sliced into thin rings rice vinegar  
3 heads Belgian endive  
1 small head each red leaf lettuce and curly endive  
3 ounces smoked ham, cut into thin sticks  
1 small Granny Smith apple, cored and thinly sliced  
1 glove garlic  
2 whole scallions  
1 generous tablespoon Dijon mustard  
extra-virgin olive oil to taste  
1 large pomegranate, seeded  

DIRECTIONS:  
Cover onion with rice vinegar. Soak 20 minutes. Wash,  
dry, and tear all but Belgian endive leaves into bite-  
sized pieces. Arrange greens on a large platter, with  
endive leaves here and there. Scatter with apple and ham.  
Drain vinegar into a blender, adding the garlic, scallions,  
and mustard. With blender running, add oil to taste. Season  
with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Tuck onions into  
greens. Just before serving, drizzle dressing over the salad  
and finish with pomegranate.  

Yield: 6-8 Servings 


**** TODAY'S USELESS FACT ****

Can dogs see in the dark?

   You and your husband need that nightlight a whole lot more than your furry friend does. Dogs have excellent night vision, a trait crucial to their predatory ancestors. The minimum threshold of light dogs require for vision is about five or six times lower than that of humans. So your pooch won't be stumbling around in the dark if you don't leave a light on for him.

Unlike our eyes, a dog's eyes are designed to function well in low-light conditions. Both canines and humans (and many other animals) have two types of light-sensitive cells in the retina called rods and cones. These cells respond to light and process visual information, which is transferred to the brain for interpretation. Rods work best in dim light and can detect motion. Cones are used in bright light to detect color and details.

The retinas of dogs are dominated by rods, allowing them to see very well with very little light. They can also sense small motions, which helps make them good hunters. However, dogs have about one-tenth of the cones that humans do, so they don't see color in the same way we do



****A PARTING THOUGHT ****
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