Saloon Review for 12/8/07

Howdy Coal Country! I hope that you got a chance to tune in to the Saturday Night Saloon this past Saturday. We have been off the air for the past couple of weeks due to Marshall Thundering Herd Basketball, but we returned to the airwaves last week with a whole lotta show! Before we get into the music I want to congratulate the Belfry Pirates on an outstanding football season. They came up short in the state championship game but they had a memorable year and I'm fairly sure that they will be back at "The Pizza Box" next year. Now back to the matter at hand.....COUNTRY MUSIC! After falling back to second place for two weeks, the Eagles' Long Road Out of Eden has again sprung to the top of Billboard's country albums chart, swapping positions with Garth Brooks' The Ultimate Hits. Meanwhile, Carrie Underwood's "So Small" tops the songs chart for the third week in a row. There are only two albums surfacing this week as Music Row surrenders to the seasonal doldrums. They are the multi-artist CD, Original American Classics: Country Greats, which comes aboard at No. 73, and the Hit Crew's DJ's Choice: Blue Collar Christmas, edging on at No. 75. The new songs are Toby Keith's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" (No. 51), Taylor Swift's "Christmases When You Were Mine" (No. 56) and Underwood's "All American Girl" (No. 58). Cole Deggs & the Lonesome's "Girl Next Door" returns at No. 60. Trooping behind the Eagles and Brooks, in order, are Underwood's Carnival Ride, Swift's self-titled debut and Rascal Flatts' Still Feels Good. Rounding out the Top 5 songs, also in descending sequence, are Brooks' "More Than a Memory," Kenny Chesney's "Don't Blink," Josh Turner's "Firecracker" and George Strait's "How 'Bout Them Cowgirls." My album pick of the week is Toby Keith's "A Classic Christmas". A two CD set of 20 true, Christmas Classics from Toby Keith. A Classic Christmas is Toby's first holiday release in 12 years. The songs are divided by disc into both contemporary and spiritual based holiday standards. The instrumentation and production is acoustic based and allows the simplicity of the music to shine. These are the songs you want to hear during the holidays, performed by the biggest artist in country music. Toby Keith, a Christmas Classic indeed! Be sure to tune in on Dec 22 at 7 PM for the Saturday Night Saloon Christmas Spectacular!!! It will be all Christmas tunes on the Saloon that night along with some special surprises, and then we can all settle down for a long winters nap. Until then

Uncle Rock
--"if you wanna make it, you can't fake it...you gotta LIVE IT!!!"