As we are all aware of by now, we lost Joe Bonsall this month. Joe battled some intense medical issues in recent years and unfortunately they were insurmountable. I have known this man for 50 years and worked very closely with him for 45 years in the Oak Ridge Boys
I am still not over hearing the news this week that my lifelong friend Rusty Golden has passed. I’ve been friends with Rusty since 1965. I grew up with him and us learning to play music together in all of our formative years. He played drums and I was on
Sometimes… but very rarely… you’re in the right place at the right time. In the early 80’s The Mighty Oaks Band was on fire and we had the chance at a record deal with MCA… which never panned out… but we still had the opportunity to record at the legendary
The date was May 6th, 1981… The Oak Ridge Boys did the old Tonight Show… the REAL Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. In the afternoon we would have a rehearsal and afterwards we would adjourn to the famous Mexican restaurant across from NBC Studios in Burbank. We did just that
The Oak Ridge Boys have played in Laughlin, Nevada for over 30 years… we no longer DO, but the memories of those times will never go away… some good… some really bad… usually MY fault… Guilty as charged… but just today I was thinking of a great memory…….a few years
This past Saturday I spent a long time on a Twitter Space (similar to a Zoom call without video, thank goodness)… with some great folks who follow Casey Kasem’s American Top 40 on Sirius XM 70s on 7… they live-Tweet the show every Saturday by following the hashtag #AT40. Being
This is such a weird time………for everything………I kinda feel like things are happening all around me that affect me, but there isn’t a thing I can do about it………what is on my mind now is my buddy, Austin Curcuruto………Drummer for the Oak Ridge Boys………even though we aren’t working much at
Where to begin… my love for music started when I was 5 or 6 years old at my Grandmother’s house in Pensacola, FL. My young ears heard what I learned later was “I Saw Her Standing Her There” by the Beatles. In that instant, things were never going to be