Enjoying Brandon Flowers’ new solo stuff - more Sam’s Town era than Hot Fuss - even though it probably means a proper The Killers arena tour is another year away

Love that there is a Grateful Dead song (Scarlet Begonias) mediocrely covered by both Sublime and Jimmy Buffett

The guests to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding are going to get there like the Old School van kidnapping scene:

Has Jelly Roll started working on his Foxes In the Snow album yet? It’ll be just like Jason Isbell’s divorce album except it’ll be bad

If Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce do get married at Madison Square Garden, I’d guess they’d be the couple that got married the closest to a Dippin’ Dots

Watermelon Crawl, Dust on the Bottle, Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident), and other 90's country classics American Aquarium should cover next Friday's 13 - It's High Time for Slappers, Bangers, and Certified Twangers Volume 3 reddirtandjam.ghost.io/fridays-13-i...

Turnpike Troubadours and Sierra Hull covering Robert Earl Keen is the perfect way to start a summer weekend

Eagerly awaiting the new American Aquarium album on Friday and realizing we are well overdue for a third Slappers, Bangers & Certified Twangers

Seeing a yacht rock band over the weekend reminded me how much classic hip hop loved sampling Steely Dan

I like to think that while Brian Wilson was putting together Pet Sounds for The Beach Boys that Mike Love was pushing to include Kokomo on the album

Still to this day, anytime I hear Dire Straits’ Walk of Life (or a cover of it) I am immediately in the mood to see some sports bloopers

Goose having extra days off between Virginia and NYC weekend run through MSG and Central Park is giving Peter Anspach more time to decide which Knicks jersey he is going to wear Friday night

So is the Goose Central Park Summerstage show where they play the new Big Modern! album?

Goose puts out albums at a pace not seen since peak Ryan Adams (not a complaint)

Saw Jason Isbell one time and he was telling an absolutely hysterical story and then abruptly goes ‘Well, here is the saddest song I’ve ever written’ and plays Elephant Absolutely amazing

A Morgan Wallen concert is like a box of turds, you never know what you’re gonna get

Can’t believe Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are getting married during set break of N2 of Goose at MSG this summer

Buffalo Traffic Jam joining The Stone Roses and The Damn Quails in completing the Fool’s Gold trifecta

Don’t think we will ever have another World Cup song better than New Order’s World in Motion for Team England back in 1990

If I didn’t know what Born in the U.S.A. was about in 2026, I would probably keep that to myself

Don’t think I’ve ever heard another Bart Crow song in my life, but have conservatively heard Wear My Ring a thousand times

Just heard the War on Drug’s cover of Touch of Grey and have a lot of thoughts - primarily, why did they make it sound like Bob Dylan was singing it?

Is it just me or is every time I hear a Sam Fender song I think it is some new Killers song I haven’t heard yet

Would be insanely funny for a jam band to have a lead singer that didn’t play an instrument, leaving him or her with nothing to do for extended periods of time on stage

Fade Into You by Mazzy Star might be the most beautiful song ever written

Love seeing superstar athletes take their pop star girlfriend/ fiancé’s to the most romantic places this Memorial Day weekend: Cleveland Ohio and a Jersey Shore share house

Cognitive Dissonance is being glad your favorite musical artists are doing well and selling out venues but at the same time you secretly want to see those tickets on the cheap via the secondary market

Mentally bracing myself for the 2030 Super Bowl Halftime show - probably something like ‘A Salute to Bro Country’ featuring a Florida Georgia Line reunion

Feeling hopeful for the future generation seeing that Eric Church’s UNC commencement speech is widely celebrated while Eric Schmidt’s Arizona one was booed

What would Brooks & Dun have to do to not even be nominated, much less lose, for ACM Duo of the Year?

When I listen to Ryan Bingham I like to remind myself that it is Oscar winner Ryan Bingham

It seems like every NFL player, coach, and reporter heard Lonely Island’s I’m On A Boat back in 2009 and made it their entire esthetic to this day

There might be hope for country music radio - flipping around and my local one was playing Heaven Passing Through by Turnpike Troubadours

Out of all the questionable decisions made in Nashville, the country music tribute album to Motley Crue might be the most indefensible

Seeing videos posted from the floor of the Sphere is the best advertisement for getting seat tickets for the Sphere

The three greatest works of David Allan Coe: The Ride Dakota the Dancing Bear Tyler Mahan Coe

How I am just learning there is a channel called ‘Yacht Country’ on Sirius? Guessing it plays a boatload of Kenny Rogers and Eddie Rabbitt (I’ll forgive the fact that the words yacht and country together make absolutely no sense)

Had the worst idea this morning: Wookmarket - a predictions market where you can bet on whether or not a song will played that night by a band, whether a jam will go over/under a certain length, what song will be the opener, the encore, etc. Will be laden with insider trading

Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now by Starship is the ultimate grocery store banger

Had Stagecoach on in the background, Ella Langley starts You Look Like You Love Me, I wonder who is going to duet with her, wouldn’t have guessed Theo Von

Pink Floyd, Jimmy Buffett, and other bands that would have excelled at the Sphere in their heydays Sphere of Influence reddirtandjam.ghost.io/sphere-of-in...

The $30 Summer of Live ticket promotion from Live Nation is coming next week which is the best way to find out which artists aren’t selling well in your area or were too ambitious and booked a bigger venue than they should have

Hell yeah, Willie Nelson and Shooter Jennings covering Jason Boland & The Stragglers

Morgan Wallen on vinyl is hysterical to me, fairly confident the Venn diagram of Morgan Wallen fans and vinyl lovers has no overlap

Metallica at the Sphere this fall but they just use Kenny Chesney’s graphics

The only thing worse than sitting near chompers at a concert would have to be sitting near Barstool chompers at a concert

I have thought long and hard about this and realized that Pink Floyd would’ve been the greatest Sphere band

There is a 100% chance one of the Phish Sphere shows is getting a More encore

Imagine working on the visuals for the Phish Sphere shows and coming up with an idea so unhinged the band (or Mike) says no

Is Phish going no repeats for all nine Sphere shows? Or just for each 3 show weekend?