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09/25/2025

Drop those votes for our Beak Boxing Chicken at the World Chicken Festival in London this weekend!

09/25/2025

The WCF kicks off this afternoon at the Sander's Stage on Broad Street. The fun starts at 5pm with the one and only Peggy Inks!

09/25/2025

Catch country music star Mark Wills at the Stage of Stars this Saturday night at 9pm! Mark will be the headlining artist at the WCF! Catch great entertainment at the Stage of Stars located at TownCenter Park!

Mark Wills sings the song that started it all with "Jacob's Ladder" live on Larry's Country Diner at the CabaRay Theater in Nashville, Tennessee.Subscribe to...

09/25/2025

Mark Wills will be the headlining artist this Saturday at the WCF! He will be at the Stage of Stars starting at 9pm!

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09/25/2025

More exciting news...Darryl Worley will be in Barbourville for the Daniel Boone Festival!

Music video by Darryl Worley performing Have You Forgotten?.© 2003 SKG Music Nashville LLC/Dreamworks Records Nashville

09/25/2025

T. is coming to Barbourville for the Daniel Boone Festival!

09/25/2025

“Woman (Sensuous Woman)” portrayed a lustful affair in which a man goes outside of his marriage repeatedly to a woman who holds him in a spell. References to craving her body and losing control conjure up a picture of love as an addiction. Ironic, because “Woman (Sensuous Woman)” was far and away the biggest record Don Gibson had after conquering his own drug addiction.

Gibson gained his first real break while performing at a nightclub in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1956. He was spotted by Acuff-Rose staff writer Mel Foree, who soon afterward brought his boss, publisher Wesley Rose, in from Nashville to hear the singer. Don sang his composition, “Sweet Dreams,” on stage that evening and Rose immediately signed Gibson to a songwriter’s contract. Wesley also was instrumental in getting him on RCA.

At RCA, Don’s career flourished. His first record for the label was a blockbuster – “Oh, Lonesome Me” (eight weeks at #1) with “I Can’t Stop Loving You” on the flip side. Over the next eight years, Gibson accrued a dozen more Billboard Top Ten records, including such staples as “Blue Blue Day,” “Just One Time,” “Lonesome Number One” and “Sea Of Heartbreak.”

That period brought the seeds of Gibson’s addiction. He was plagued by personal problems and put on too many pounds. A doctor gave him pills to help bring his weight back down, but Gibson began swallowing as many as 25 at a time. In a 1975 interview with “Country Song Roundup,” Don looked back on that period of his life:

“It was the worst thing that ever happened to me. I lost track of time. I lived from day to day. I was on pep pills and tranquilizers – never the hard stuff, just the pills. They were big trouble.”

In 1967, Gibson married Bobbi Patterson, whom he credits with ending his chemical dependency.

At the close of the 1960s, Don left RCA to sign with Hickory Records, a division of the Acuff-Rose company. With that move, Gibson’s publisher, his old friend Wesley Rose, also took on an active production role in his recordings.

It took a couple of years for Rose to get Gibson back to the top of Billboard’s country chart. An Eddy Raven tune, “Country Green,” sent Don to #5 for his first top ten solo entry in five years. Three singles later, “Woman (Sensuous Woman)” returned Gibson’s name to the number one position for the first time since 1958’s “Blue Blue Day.” It reached the top on September 2, 1972, marking Don’s third and final number one record.

09/25/2025

Hailing from the Baltimore area, Cheryl Wheeler made her way to Rhode Island in 1976, establishing a presence on the Newport folk scene. In 1985, “North Star Records” was founded specifically to showcase her recording talents, and Cheryl’s first two albums created a critical buzz that filtered through Los Angeles and Nashville. In Music City, a booking agent heard some of her material, and producer Kyle Lehning was prodded into giving her a listen.

After listening to Wheeler’s first two albums, Lehning suggested to Dan Seals that he record one of her songs, “Addicted,” a song she wrote during her folk days in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

The song came about after a telephone conversation between Wheeler and her sister. The sister was describing a very stormy relationship she was in with a man. She said she didn’t know what to do about it, feeling like she was addicted to a bad situation.

Cheryl was moved by her sister’s predicament, and especially the part about her feeling addicted. After the call, Wheeler began composing “Addicted.”

Dan Seals was amazed by the song, and he couldn’t wait to record it, although it obviously came from a woman’s point of view. As Seals sang “Addicted,” he tried to make himself believe that he knew what a woman goes through in a volatile situation like the sister described. But Dan quickly came to realize that he really didn’t know. “I can’t imagine the pain of a situation like that,” Seals exclaimed, “but I know a darn good song when I hear it!”

And so, Dan Seals’ rendition of “Addicted” became the eighth of his 11 Billboard number one hits on September 24, 1988. In his version, the last verse, as Wheeler had written it, was eliminated. Cheryl wasn’t upset, though. Quite the contrary, in fact. She says she always knew the last verse shouldn’t be there, but it never occurred to her that the answer was to merely drop it. Wheeler was amazed that the solution was so simple, thanks to producer Kyle Lehning.

As a result of the success of “Addicted,” Cheryl signed with Capitol Records in 1989 for a short tenure, but no hits came of the association.

09/25/2025

Conway Twitty’s 25th number one country single was also his ninth in a row, a string that began three years earlier with “I See the Want To in Your Eyes” on October 19, 1974. “I’ve Already Loved You in My Mind” peered into the realm of fantasy and the song allowed fantasy to become reality.

Twitty considered this a personal favorite of all the songs he wrote. He believed it to be truthful and honest. Although a topic that some interpreted as “controversial,” in Conway’s opinion, all men have thoughts like that cross their minds whenever they see a pretty woman walk by. He felt that the song’s message was not offensive to women at all, insisting that if it had been, he wouldn’t have put the record on the market.

When “I’ve Already Loved You in My Mind” landed at #1 on September 24, 1977, it represented the final chart-topping hit that Owen Bradley produced for Conway. Bradley was behind the glass for each of Twitty’s next four singles, but all of them failed to reach number one.

“Georgia Keeps Pulling on My Ring,” “Boogie Grass Band” and “Your Love Had Taken Me That High” all peaked in the top five. However, Conway’s salute to the Grand Ole Opry called “The Grandest Lady of Them All” stopped at #16. Although that would have been good enough for most performers, it was the worst stretch for Conway in more than a decade.

Twitty insisted that his subsequent split from Bradley had nothing to do with the chart numbers – that he had already been contemplating a new approach. Owen encouraged Conway to do what he felt was necessary when they discussed the plan, and although Twitty ended their association amicably, the legendary producer was saddened and disappointed. He had helmed every one of Conway’s sessions since his signing to Decca Records in 1966. They made a total of 39 top ten hits together, with 25 of them reaching number one on Billboard’s country chart.

Whether coincidental or not, Twitty resumed his string of number one records with his very next release, “Don’t Take It Away,” in which Conway served as his own producer. He continued in that role for the remainder of his chart career, with occasional assistance from big-name producers such as Ron Chancey and Jimmy Bowen. Twitty’s post-Bradley tenure saw him log 15 additional Billboard chart-toppers for a total of 40, second only to George Strait’s 44.

Additionally, Conway had 15 more singles that reached number one on charts other than Billboard, making a total of 55.

09/25/2025

"You Decorated My Life" by Kenny Rogers is a sweet and genuine profession of love for a significant other.

09/25/2025

Tracy Byrd is a man in love in "The Keeper of the Stars." The track was such a big hit, and the Academy of Country Music named it Song of The Year in 1996.