Nashville in the mid-’90s was booming. What was that like?
[Huff] All of a sudden, it was money, money, money. As with any boom, quality control became something of an issue. There was just a lot of money being made. And our business was being remade and cemented. You find the nuggets of gold, but most of it was hurried-up product. Hurried-up product selling a lot of units.” • As a 14 year old kid, Keith Urban had a choice to make: KISS or Ricky Skaggs. I only ever played in one rock band and I think I ended up playing four gigs and they ended up firing me,” Urban said. “I had just discovered Ricky Skaggs at the same time. So, as weird as it sounds, I was totally digging these Ricky Skaggs records and these Iron Maiden records and I was completely confused to what the hell I was supposed to do musically in my life. [via Calgary Herald] The article, courtesy of CanWest News Service’s Eric Vomers, also sheds light on some of the interaction between Urban and current tour-mate Taylor Swift. • Craig Shelburne has a brief write-up on Brenda Lee’s D
