"Wow, I can't believe you found that" said Maplewood, when the photo was provided.  “Yeah, we made a good run at it, but Nashville just wasn't ready for Johnny and the Saplings.”  Maplewood recalled stories of the Nashville Jam Band Scene “before it was a scene”.  Maplewood continues, “We had a few good songs, but the powers that be on music row just didn’t wanna hear about it”.

“It stands to reason that a tune like Suzie Don’t be a Deadhead just wasn’t gonna fly after The Dead stopped touring and well…

Local band Honky Tonkitis was in mourning Thursday after their lead singer, Johnny Maplewood, was declared brain dead. 

"We still can't believe it," guitarist Bruce Dean announced, shaking his head. "One minute, he's talking to us, plucking his bass, and the next minute, bang, he's no longer there."

"We did the best we could at the time," fiddle player Tom Hansen added. "As soon as we sensed something was wrong, we called 911. As soon as we hung up with them, we were calling his family, telling them to…

Doghouse Flowers will be playing with us on Saturday, Feb. 16th at Kochanski's. Check out the vid below. SHOCKER: Our accordion player, Don Turner, makes a surprise appearance in the video thirty-eight seconds in! That guy's always trying to steal the limelight!

Fiddle player Tom Hansen of local group Honky Tonkitis has a new reason to smile this week: He's going home with a lot of fans.

"Well, my action figure is, at least," Hansen says with a grin.

In fact, Hansen's action figure has been outselling the rest of the Honky Tonkitis action figures combined.

"The man's a whore," singer Johnny Maplewood rudely commented.

"He's rigging the system by buying them himself," accordion player Don Turner added.

"Except for the five I bought," Maplewood countered. "Hey Tom…

Here's Doghouse Flowers, the band we're going to be dueling on Saturday, February 16th, at Kochanski's. More to come!

We got a great review and synopsis of the band from Steve at the Australian company, Yesterday and Today Records, and we wanted to share it with you:

Three albums by what may be the definitive honky tonk group in the very big sub-category of “drinking songs”. And they are great at what they do. They remind a little of the Cornell Hurd Group and in Yesterday & Today speak that means about as good as you can get. All feature classic album covers, which will leave no one guessing as far as content is…

Love the twisted idea of this song, the twist being that this guy lost his girl to a honky tonk, rather than another man. Swinging Doors did this from a first-person perspective, but rarely is the female in the relationship the one lost to drinking and carousing.

It took Johnny Cash to help us understand and appreciate Depeche Mode.

Ah yes, Shorty Bacon. Great name for country music. Not the best name for an adult film star.

Country music singer Blake Shelton continued to make waves Tuesday when he announced that he would return his 2010 CMA Vocalist of the Year award if the Country Music Association and Nashville in general continued to ignore musical group Insane Clown Posse.

"The fact that Insane Clown Posse is at the forefront of country music and can't get the time of day from Nashville and the Country Music Association is a tragedy of the highest order. Can you believe this talented band has never been asked to play…