Bad Blogger....

I apologize for the absence, lots going on right now on a personal level, and I just cannot dedicate the time to the blog for the time being. If you need your Bucky fix, please check the links to the right. Also pay a visit to Buckytown, USA for upcoming shows, news blurbs, concert pics and tons of other goodies.

Hugs to all. I will be back as soon as I am able to commit the time needed.

Catching Up

Hi all! I want to sincerely apologize on behalf of my telephone service for last weeks absence. Dial up and noise on the line do NOT mix, and I was unable to connect at all. Lots happened in my absence though, so I will spend the next day or so catching up.

The first big thing I saw when I was able to get online is that Winnie over at Buckymania has been offered a new opportunity. As a result she is closing her Buckymania blog, but the archives (blogger willing) will remain for all to see. Winnie, we love you and will miss your daily musings, friendship and the occasional bit of rational advice when we stray just a wee bit off the path of being a good fan. Please don't be a stranger, Bucky and the rest of us are lucky to count you among our friends and we would all hate to loose that. Wishing you the best Winnie!

I would also like to welcome Fran to the blogging world. Fran has set up house over at Buckytown, USA and is still getting things settled in but her blog is shaping up to be a real winner. Stop over and say hi, and check out the helpful links she has graciously shared.

It has been nearly 1 week since Bucky Covington's 3rd single hit the ground running with its official release May 5th. We are back to pounding the keyboards and dialing digits to request the song to our local (and sometimes not so local) stations. "I'll Walk" is showing a steady climb upwards, sitting today at #51 on the Mediabase Top 500, and #53 on the weighted chart. The bullets are looking GREAT for a new release, so lets get busy and light up those request lines. This single is definitely a hit song in the making, so lets help get it there!

I will be back tomorrow with photos and more news, again I apologize for the absence. Sweet Bucky dreams to all!

Technical Difficulties

Please excuse the lack of updates. I am experiencing technical difficulties and they should be repaired tomorrow (fingers crossed).

Meanwhile - get your requests in for I'll Walk to your local radio stations! It should have officially been released, so the time has come~

*If it has not been officially released, I apologize. A week without internet doesn't give me much in the way of current info!

DJ Training 101

Today's post is about training your DJ. I know that sounds like a silly topic, but for those of us who's lives revolve around our favorite artist(s) a DJ is a very important friend to have. In all of my adventures requesting Bucky Covington's "It's Good To Be Us" or "A Different World" I failed miserably at striking up any sort of relationship with any of the DJs. It was surely not for a lack of effort, though I did call during the different shifts, and switched it around a bit so perhaps there was no traceable pattern which would work as a conduit for said relationship that never developed.

Now finally (and at a good time certainly with Bucky's new single knocking insistently at the door) I have selected and trained my DJ. I have actually been listening to him for years, as he ends up with the early afternoon/drive home shift plus Saturdays. My job dictates that I spend the majority of my working hours on the road, so naturally the times I am at work are spent listening to the radio. In my conversation mentioned previously, I dialed up the local DJ to thank him for playing Jason Michael Carroll's new single "I Can Sleep When I'm Dead". I thanked him, told him I looooooove the song and so on. End of phone call, moving on. The next time I heard it was exactly 1 week later and within minutes of the time it was played the previous week. Hmmm, well that is bizarre, what are the odds? So again I call, and thank him. It went something like this me: "Thanks!" him: "I was wondering if you would call" me "I listen when I am at work, so I caught it and called". End of that days interaction. The following day - same time AGAIN he plays it, I call - "THANKS!", he says "you're welcome" and talked a bit about a visit he had with JMC in Nashville (and what a darn nice guy he is!) and we hang up, me grinning to myself. Today he played it, I called.....he answered "You're welcome!" so I said thank you, chuckling to myself as I hung up. That ladies and gentlemen is how to train a DJ in 4 easy steps. Gotta love it! Shout out to Tyler Reese with Star 96.3, you rock dude! 96.3 Star Country

Have a few minutes to spare? Allow me to continue promoting my other addiction, check out Jason's very new video for "I Can Sleep When I'm Dead" over on CMT!
CMT : Videos : Jason Michael Carroll : I Can Sleep When I'm Dead

Collecting Rocks?

Thanks to a heads up from Winnie (hi Winnie!) I ventured over to Steve Cook's journal to see what the latest and greatest on tour adventures are. While I cannot speak for the rest of the folks on the bus, it seems Steve is busy filling the bus full of rocks. I can actually identify with that problem, I have always liked pretty rocks and have a hard time walking by a nicely landscaped yard and not taking one home with me. I actually have 2 geode pieces that I just found a few weeks back landscaping a park. Given enough time I would have taken home all of the pretty ones. Mind you Steve is working to landscape his own yard (perhaps one day I will visit and steal one of those rocks for my own collection) while I just snag them for no apparent reason aside from liking to look at them. I rent so I won't be landscaping...in fact the two treasures from my last adventure are sitting on my microwave, I guess I could landscape it. Check Steve's journal for more about life on the road Steve Cook | Shiny Bass | Journal

On a quick Bucky note, I spoke to my local DJ today after calling him to thank him graciously for playing JMC's "I Can Sleep When I'm Dead" and requested that he play Bucky to continue appeasing me. He said he would see what he could do, but asked me about my thoughts on his new single. Caught completely unprepared I told him it was beautiful. Hindsight is 20/20, I am not sure I would sum it up as merely beautiful. Anyhow I asked if it was on the play list yep (NOPE!) and asked when they would be adding it. He was able to confirm that it is being officially released as a single this coming Monday, so hopefully that will help get it into play. I can't wait til I hear it in the regular rotation!