The Cumberland Post

Over the last few decades, many country singers have been classified as "outlaws." Some say that this "outlaw country" m...

This is a revised version of an earlier Memorial day post. Many people today, especially the elite, think overt patriotism of any kind ...

When I was in my adolescence I developed a little skill at drawing things (things not people). I understood perspective and loved to draw au...

The Cubs were swept in 4 straight games in the 2015 NLCS. The Mets are happy. I'm just a little depressed. But I'll get over it. I...

I've been a Cubs fan since about 1993. Watching my team win the NLDS on Tuesday night, made me think back to a time in July of 1955 wh...

In 2012, Alan Jackson released a new single, "You Don't Have to Love Me Anymore," penned by songwriters Jay Knowles and Adam W...

“A song ain’t nothin’ in the world but a story just wrote with music to it.” Hank Williams, Sr. “Loving is the only sure road out of ...

The narrator in Kristofferson's talking blues song, "To Beat the Devil," says, It was winter time in Nashville, down on Musi...

Nashville, TN. October 3, 2015. There's poetry in Music City. Writer Dan Jewell’s collection of poems,  A Nashville Woman and Other So...

There's poetry in Music City . Many country music songs are poetry in the oldest and most traditional sense. But there's also poet...

Some might say that mentioning Country Music and Poetry in the same breath is at best an oxymoron and at worst a travesty. IMHOP these reade...

It's been awhile since my last post. About 14 months. Time passes. I'm getting older, that's for sure. I've noticed lately...