Yes, it’s real! This surreal fusion of country line dancing and hip hop from 1995 was created by aerobics instructor Diane Horner. She says “You can even add your shoulders if you want. That’s the fun thing about hip hop dancing.”
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Long-time country music fans know that a “Nudie suit” is a stage outfit festooned with rhinestones like Porter Wagoner and Hank Williams, Sr. used to wear. Nudie Cohn is the man who designed these suits for more musical artists than you knew, not to mention cars and other props of show business life. The Selvedge Yard has a look at Cohn and his creations, with lots of pictures. Pictured is Cohn with Gram Parsons in a Nudie suit. Link -via Everlasting Blort
In this little country ditty, Social Media Blues, Scott Rodgers described his futile attempt of getting the attention of a girl through web 2.0 shenanigans.
Twitterphobics: don’t watch it, it’ll just make you mad! Link [embedded YouTube clip]
Minnie Pearl's Fried Chicken
Meanwhile, no one seemed worried that only five restaurants were actually operating and that no two franchises used the same fried chicken recipe. Regular customer complaints, combined with an SEC investigation into the company's accounting practices, meant that it wasn't long before the restaurants began hemorrhaging money. By late 1971, the last bird had been fried. Hooker spent decades living down the debacle, while Pearl continued to apologize to her fans right up until her death in 1996. (Photo: ghb624 [Flickr]) Twitty Burger
But the Twitty Burger never found its audience, and mismanagement led to the chain's swift demise. When Conway decided to repay his investors, he deduced $100,000 as a business expense on his tax returns. (Another bad idea.) The IRS soon caught wind, and Twitty wound up in court. Lucky for him, he was assigned to Judge Leo Irwin, an amateur singer with a soft spot for country. Not only did Irwin allow Twitty to keep the money, but after he read the verdict, he sang a song he wrote entitled "Ode to Conway Twitty." (Image: Conway Twitty's album Gold PoFolks
As Anderson did PoFolks commercials and even became a partner in several franchises, the chain's prospects grew. He even convinced his pal Conway Twitty to become an investor (apparently the Twitty Burger debacle didn't faze him). At its height, individual PoFolks restaurants were grossing $2 million a year. But careless expansion took its toll, and by 1989, PoFolks was headed for the PoHouse. The chain rebounded in 1991, but without Anderson. Today, there are nine remaining restaurants, mostly in Florida. (Photo: Runder [Flickr]) Kenny Rogers' Roasters
While Rogers was an affable spokesman, he didn't know his brand. In 1997, on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Rogers failed a blind taste test, choosing chicken from the NBC cafeteria instead of Roasters'. That may have been a sign. The company filed for bankruptcy a year later, meaning that Kenny didn't know when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em. Jimmy Dean Sausages
While running the company with his brother, Dean pitched his product on TV, singing of sausage "from the whole hawg, not just the leavin's." Amazingly, those leavin's didn't go to waste, either. The inner skins were donated to burn treatment centers, while the outer skins were fashioned into coats for Dean's spin-off company, Pigskin. Other spare parts were turned into cat food. But trouble soon surfaced in hog heaven. The company expanded too fast, and unsophisticated accounting practices and manufacturing equipments couldn't keep up. When the stress started taking a toll on Jimmy Dean's health, he sold the company in 1984. Despite the change in ownership, Jimmy stood by his product and kept his job as pitchman for another 20 years. |
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The article above, written by Bill DeMain, is reprinted with permission from Scatterbrained section of the Mar/Apr 2009 issue of mental_floss magazine. Be sure to visit mental_floss' website and blog for more fun stuff!
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This ain’t just any tractor … It plays in a quartet alongside three guitarists to perform Sweet Georgia Brown.
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Hunter Hayes, born in 1991, is a singer-songwriter. He became a country music sensation at the tender age of three. He is also an accomplished diatonic accordion player, as well as a highly talented guitar player (from Wikipedia).
In this old 1995 video he plays "Jambalaya" with the famous country musician Hank Williams Jr.
I had no idea that June Carter Cash and Johnny Cash did Christmas Specials every year! I got way too entrenched in watching clips from various years, but I liked this one the best.

