Casey was spotted at the CMA's!

Hello everybody!  I'm still reeling from the CMA Show the other night!!  Wow....I have to say that was the BEST show I've ever watched, and I've watched many of them through the years!!!  It had so many different 'feels' to the show!!  Country music in the present time......country music of the future and country music from the past!!  I loved all of it!!  There was something there for everyone, even some non-country fans found some performances and artists that they liked!!  That's so awesome to me!!  And we have Casey James to thank for that!!  They might not have ever experienced it had it not been for him signing with Sony Nashville!!
I know I watched every single second of the show and couldn't find Casey in the audience even though I was looking over every persons shoulder trying to find him!  One fan actually thought she saw him and had her husband rewind it to make sure.....sadly it wasn't him.... :(   But our trusty fans didn't give up, and eventually it paid off!!  He was finally spotted in a screencap during Brad Paisley's acceptance speech and here it is!!!  You can see Casey at the bottom left of the picture where the red arrow is:

That, in my opinion is Casey!  Many thanks to CaroLaughs for finding this!!

UPDATE:
I just came across the actual video where Casey was sighted in the audience at about 2:43 as Brad was giving his emotional acceptance speech!!

Brad's Acceptance Speech with Casey at about 2:43 
It's actually a little past that but keep watching!  And many thanks going
out to knmtexas for posting this!

  

There was also another interview or two out there with Casey and as always he's so humble and sweet!

I think I've already posted this one, but I'm gonna post it again.....just because....and maybe I didn't....oh well....

New Country 95.7 interview with Casey
Thanks to NewCountry957 for this interview


And now another interview while he was out and about in the media frenzy in Nashville!  He just keeps on getting sweeter all the time....what a great guy!

B 93 interview from Nashville
Thanks to nxdnick for this Casey interview

Ok, as most of you know, Brad Paisley got the Entertainer of the Year award!!  That is the biggest honor in Country Music and it was Brad's first win and I have to say.....for a guy who knows not how to ever be serious and loves cutting up and joking around all the time....as yall seen from his hosting humor.....he really had me crying like a baby..... from the song "This is Country Music" all the way to his win.....I've never seen Brad so emotional....it just touched my heart.  Especially what he said about his grandpa telling him if he got a guitar he would never be alone.....omg.....how precious is that?!  So, in honor of Brad making it to the top......this one's for him!!   Good job and congratulations to him!!
While I'm at it, I also just wanted to say congratulaions to all the winners at the CMA's!!  Every winner was deserving of the award!!  Next year we will hopefully see Casey on that stage!!  And.....receiving an award of his own!!  I, for one, certainly hope so!!  I would love to see The Casey James Band get "Best New Vocal Group".....yea....don't that sound good?!?! :)

"This is Country Music" by Brad Paisley 
Thanks to knmtexas for this beautiful tribute to Country Music by Brad Paisley

Some of you may not understand what Brad was doing with this song, but he was honoring all the greats of Country Music, past and present!  The video in the background would show the artist who sang the song of the line he was singing at the moment, in the song.  And at the end, when he was naming the songs off, one by one, the artist who sang it was in the screen behind him.....omg.....so emotional....loved it!  And at the very end when he did that little guitar lick.....and the screen showed two people.....the lick he did was created by the late great Buck Owens lead guitar player.....also the late, Don Rich, and thats who you saw behind him...   He was the one on the left and one of the greatest guitarists ever in my opinion!
This song sums it up about what Country Music is all about.....and I thank Brad for this song.....it's definitely a keeper!!

Ok, yall.....I have to work this weekend, so I'll be back in a couple days, yall take care!

Until next time......

CMA Show Tonight!! Will we see Casey??

This is it!!!  CMA night!!  I'm starting this before the show and I'll finish it after the show!!  Just wanted to get started on the new media stuff from today since I haven't had time to get over here to start this!!  Here we go!!

"Casey talking with WTQR DJ Angie"

From what I understand Casey James was in the house last night for the BMI Country Awards show!  Go Casey!!  He is pictured here with Shane Tallant from Fox 17's Tennessee Mornings.  It won't be long before we'll be seeing him accepting one of these awards!!!  Can't come soon enough for me!!

I'll be back later with more.......

Here is another podcast from 102.5 Boston's Country station and Casey is interviewed by Lori Grande!  I don't think she watched AI very much.....jus' sayin'.... :)

Boston's 102.5 interview with Casey
Just scroll down to Casey's name and click on the right side.

Ok, Brad Paisley won the Entertainer of the Year.....the biggest award in Country Music!!!  He got so emotional he had me bawling like a baby.....
I'm going to talk about the Awards tomorrow, but Miranda and Blake did real good this year!!!

And no.....I don't think anyone spotted Casey....I know I didn't and I've asked around and no one saw him..... :(  Oh well, he will be on that red carpet next year!!  I really expected to see him tonight, but I guess they only have so much time to talk with them, and there are alot of artists to talk to in that hour.


Until tomorrow.....night all.....

Media frenzy with Casey James....CMA Awards Show airs tomorrow!

Hello everybody!!  Well, like yesterday, today has also been a media frenzy, starring our own Casey James!!  He's still talking and I'm loving everything he's saying!  So is a multitude of his fans!!  One fan made her way to Nashville and tweeted that she had met Casey, and he was sooooo nice!!!  I don't have permission to use her name, just know she's a dedicated Casey follower!!  I was very happy for her that she found him and was able to talk to him, since she didn't get that opportunity at the Knoxville show when the tour stopped in that city!    She is on her way home as I'm writing and had said earlier that she would give more details later at home!  So we're all waiting patiently for her full report!!  Congrats on the Casey meeting girl.....you know who you are!!

Now.....check this out....Casey said he "would" be at the CMA Awards Show!!!  I knew it all along, but didn't have any particular proof of it, so I had to always say...."probably".... But not anymore.....check out this video as he is speaking with ABC Action News, and he tells (jokingly of course) how he is planning on attending the biggest show in Country Music tomorrow night!!  Yall are gonna love this.....Casey's joking side of his cute personality!! :)  And he talks about going back on Idol for a performance and when his album will allegedly be out!!  All good stuff for sure!!!!!!!!

Casey Interview in Nashville

And yet another radio interview right here!


Casey Interview with 107.9 WIRK

I'm sure there will be more interviews and sightings tomorrow, lets hope he stops and talks to them!!  And poses for pics, since we need more new ones around here!!!  I cannot wait to see what he's wearing tomorrow at the CMA Awards Show!!!!  It's gotta be good, knowing him like we do.....I wonder......who will Casey be wearing on the red carpet???

Don't forget about the CMA AWARDS SHOW!!!!   IT STARTS AT 6PM CT ON ABC.....(I'm pretty sure abc will air the red carpet, if not, CMT will air it live, just tune in to CMT... the country music channel.  For me, I'm on Dish Network, and I don't know if all Dish Network customers have the same channel #'s but CMT for me is 166 and GAC (Great American Country) is 167, so side by side they lay!!  I thought GAC would have something to do with the CMA Awards, but I havn't heard anything.  I'll check around and see if I can find out any more and I'll edit and come back and put it here if Ido find something!!

I'll leave yall with a nice cool shot of our Casey!!  Hope he looks this good tomorrow night!!  I'm looking forward to it!!!

Casey James is back in the news, just in time for the CMA Awards Show!!!

Hey everybody!!  Casey James is back in the news again!!  I couldn't be happier!!  As many of you know, this is CMA week in Nashville, so radio station people from all over flog into Nashville to cover the Awards show set to air live on ABC Wednesday night, November 10th at 7CT!!  Casey has already done several interviews with different radio stations and I have them all right here.....right now!!  So lets get on with it....ok?
The first one is from B104.7 and it's just audio, but oh so good!!  Listen>>>

Casey interview with B104.7~audio only 

The next one is from 99.9 Kiss Country, also audio only and Casey talks about his music and how he fits into the country genre.  The DJ also jokes with Casey about his gorgeous hair!!  Too funny!!  Give it a listen>>>

Casey's interview with 99.9 KISS Country


This next interview is a guy and gal named Bear and Charli out of Green Bay, WI from Y100 Country WNCY 100.3 and Casey talks about breaking into the business and they ask the good questions!!  And they talk about the fans asking them about Casey's music!  You can tell they really like Casey!  Good interview!

Casey's interview with 100.3 WNCY  

Now we have a video from WTQR in Nashville and the first thing you'll notice is Casey's shorter doo!!  I won't say anything bad about it, but I hope it grows back fast, I do like the longer locks better!  And I don't care for the wet look on him either, he looks really good with just the natural dry waves about shoulder length....in my personal opinion.  But he's still Casey James and the new doo has nothing whatsoever to do with his beautiful voice and his mad skills on the guitar!!!  But....what I didn't care for in the video was the DJ mentioning......a-gain......the shirt episode and Kara!  But hopefully this drama won't follow him after he releases his first album and people start seeing Casey for the multi-talented artist that he is, and not some fly by night pretty boy looking for a short cut to fame!!  We all know that is NOT who he is, but others don't know that, but will find that out about him in the future!!  He seems so excited to be doing what he loves!  And I have to say, I'm glad he's taking his time with the album and getting it exactly the way he wants it before releasing it to the public!!

Video of Casey and WTQR DJ's in Nashville
Thanks to Jeffropertv for this video.

And now.....some new pictures of Casey....with his shorter but still lovely hair!!  He's a doll, no matter what, but I've noticed alot of people are not taking to his new shorter locks.  Thats ok....it's just hair, and it will grow quickly!  I think I dislike the wet look more than the shortness of his hair, but thats just my opinion.  I just like his hair dry and shoulder length, and it will get there again.  Lets all be patient! :)

Ok yall.....that's all I've got for tonight!  Yall don't forget about the Christmas Card Exchange!  Send me an email to CEJblues10@gmail.com if you would like in on it!

Also I know I mentioned it above, but remember to tune in on Wed. Nov. 10 for the 44th Annual CMA Awards honoring Country Music's very best in the business!!  I'm not sure about the Red Carpet time, but we definitely want to watch that too, as Casey will surely grace it!!  It will be his first time, can all of you imagine how excited he will be?!  I will check tomorrow for more info on the Red Carpet and when it starts, but if I'm not mistaken I'm pretty sure GAC and CMT video channels also do the Red Carpet, interviewing artists as they arrive!  It's all so very exciting!!  


Take care yall.....

Bucky Recap and he talks to me about Casey James!!

Hey everybody....I'm baaaack!!  Wow......what a great time I've had since yesterday!!  As most of you know, I went to see my other Idol boy Bucky Covington yesterday, over at The Colony, Texas which is by Dallas.  And as usual, he was awesome!  I'll start at the beginning:

I picked my friend Laura up at the Love Field Airport in Dallas about 2:00pm.  We headed straight to the Hotel to put all our stuff up, freshened up and headed down to the festival where Bucky was performing.  We were running a little late.....as usual.....and got there about 4:30.  The show was to start at 5, so we went straight to the merchandise table to see Terra (Bucky's sister-in-law) and get our Meet and Greet Passes.  She grabbed them and said hurry, the M&G has already started!   We said "Where?"  She said right on the other side of the bus.....about 15 steps away!  :)  So we go over and within 5 minutes Bucky was saying...."Well hello Glenda, how've you been?" and held his arms out for a hug!  He does hug good too....I might add!  :)  Then he always asks me..."How long did it take you get here?"  He gets tickled at me sometimes, depending on what I had to do to get there and how long it took.  This time was a quick roadtrip, only about 75 or 80 miles....maybe a little further, so I just said "Oh, a couple hours."  So we talked a few minutes about this and that, I wished him and Rocky a happy birthday.....(it's the 8th.....Monday) told him I got him a 6 pack a Shiner Bock beer (made in Shiner, Tx) but couldn't bring it in because of where we were.  So I had also bought him a couple books and gave them to him after the show.  (I had left the presents in the truck)  I also congratulated him on his recent engagement to his gorgeous girlfriend Katherine, wished them well, and told him to give her a hug for me and my best wishes, and he said he would.  Then we got 2 pictures together, one on my phone and one on my camera and they both turned out good!  So, I told him we'd talk more after the show, because Laura still had to visit with him and they were needing him to do sound check like real soon!  So we left and went and got something to drink and headed to the front of the stage to stake out our spot right on the front!  I was surprised because no one was up close they were like 20 feet back in their lawn chairs, and I thought....oh no....I hope nobody comes up to me and tells me not to stand there.....because I'll have to tell them, yes I do.....make me leave..... :D  if it was a security guard or something I would back off, but just somebody in the crowd.....no way!!  The stage was high enough that we were not blocking anyone's view, so we just planted ourselves and got ready to ROCK!!!   Laura and I were the only 2 people standing right up front for about 20 minutes and before we knew it, there was a huge crowd all around!!  I know for a fact that Bucky likes his fans as close to the stage as they can get without being on it with him....lol!!  So the show starts and I didn't bounce around as much as I usually do, because I was afraid the vertigo would get worse and I wouldn't be able to drive home.....so I just bounced a little bit by getting on my toes and bouncing that way!  Usually I'm jumping up and down every time he does.....and believe me.....he jumps alot....and likes it when the people jump with him!  You learn these things when you've followed them as long as I have him!  Just think, before long, a bunch of us will know all these little inside things about Casey!!!  I've got some cool stuff to tell you about what Bucky said about Casey.....but for now, let me finish this!  Anyway.....his show had changed just a little since I had seen him last, in June at CMA fest.  There was a new drummer, named Mitch and a new lead guitarist named Bo.  And they played with him like they had always been with him, playing all his songs so well!!
Bucky is a live wire onstage and is quite funny as well!!  I think I laughed at him more this time than I'd ever before.....he's just hilarious onstage.....always doing or saying something funny!  I got a bunch of videos to prove that!  I haven't uploaded all of them, but I got some of them, and the Band Intro videos which are always a hoot!!  I did notice that the ones I got on my phone were a bit distorted....but you can still enjoy them!  I think it might have been because I was right on those speakers!  Anyway, I'll post the videos now and then finish up the recap.  enjoy!

"Hold A Woman" Bucky's bluesy sexy song 
 Note: from 1:26 to 2:02 you can't hear anything because I had my finger on the speaker....sorry...


"Drinking in the Country"
a new one and I accidentally stopped it...but there's a little bit of it....and I like it!!



I accidentally hit the Publish Post.....so if your reading this please come back later and read the rest, I'm still working on it!





"Hands to Yourself" the beginning of the Band intros.....
this is hilarious!! It starts here and goes through the whole band intros!


Band intros continued.....
Scott Saunders (keyboards) and Steve Cook (Bass) check out the old bass Steve's playin' Billy I hope you see this!


Band intros continued.....
This is hilarious after the drummer is finished Bucky's pretending to sing the song and says something funny about a guy in the audience...Mitch-drummer and Bo- lead guitar

Band intros finished and end to "Hands to Yourself"
This is also funny....Bucky forgets to intro his brother....LOL!!  Ducky Medlock on rhythm guitar and Rocky Covington on Percussion...can yall tell Rocky and Bucky apart yet??


"Evil Knievel"
I can still not tell you what the words to this song are....except raised on bar-b-que, Jesus....and a couple other words....lol...very cool song though!!

"Gotta Be Somebody"
I love his version of this song!

"The Wall" The Buckified Version...lol...
Bucky gets the crowd into this one!!  Very fun song!!


Ok, yall.....first I want to apologize for the quality of the sound, I was just too close to get a clear sound, but hopefully yall can understand most of them!  And you can at least see them very good!  Also in one of the Band intros you will see Bucky up close to me and he's pulling on something on the front of the guitar....when you see that.....he was pulling a broken guitar string off and out of his way and he was pulling it fast and hard and when he shoved it out of his way my hand was right there and I got it....I rolled it up with one hand while still extended because people were reaching over me trying to get it!!  They didn't......jus sayin'....lol.....and videoing all at the same time....talk about multi-tasking!!  :)  And also speaking of keepsakes.....when the lead guitar player came in front of me I mouthed the words, "Can I have your pick?"  and when he was done he pitched it to me and I grabbed it without dropping it!!  Usually I drop them and have to go to the ground elbowing and hollering....."It's mine....It's mine"!!  LoL!!  So ya see, being close to the stage has it advantages......and.....it's disadvantages.....(sound).


So the show is over and Laura and I went to the truck to get the gifts for them, and we come back and find all of the band members one at a time, except the drummer, Mitch.....he was nowhere to be found.....and they all took pictures with us and hugged us and thanked us for coming!  And we said....Oh.....but THANK YOU for finally making it back to Texas!!  They always want to come to Texas, but he isn't received as well here as he is on the east coast and midwestern states....go figure.....he is from North Carolina.....that might have something to do with it!  Ya think???


So we're waiting by the bus and only 4 or 5 people are there and this one teenage girl turns to Laura and I and very 'matter of factly' said....."He's not coming out".....  Laura and I looked at each other and said......."Oh yea.....just be patient.....he's playing a game right now"!  Ha ha!  I bet she was wondering who we were and how we knew!!  Terra....Rocky's wife had told Laura.  So about 10 minutes later Bucky comes out and is signing and visiting with the few that were there and we waited to be last so we could have more time with him!  So he comes over and hugs us and I said, "So Bucky....have ya met Casey yet?"  Without even saying his last name....and Bucky knew exactly who I was talking about....he said, "No, not yet, but I want to!!"  Well, I told him I run a site for him and he said "Oh Really?? Have you met him" and I said yea.....5 times.....I mean yea.....I have seen him 5 times and met him in Dallas once and hugged him"!  He said Cool!!!  Then I went on to tell him what a great guy he was and how likable he was and went on to suggest that he look him up and invite him out to the farm (Bucky's house) to ride 4 wheelers and dirt bikes and play some music by the brick fire thing (still can't remember what it's called....duh) with Casey!!  He said he sure would try to look him up!!!  I told him since he was the new kid in town, Bucky could show him some fun stuff to do on his off day(s), rather than work 24/7!!  He was in agreement with me!!  So.....yall keep your fingers crossed he'll find Casey and they can hook up and hang out together!!


Here are a few pictures of me and the band members!  I hope yall have enjoyed my Bucky recap and come away with a whole new feeling about him!!  He's quite a good guy too!!

My favorite stage shot....

                                                  Me and Bucky at Meet and Greet!
 

                                                                  Me and Ducky

                                                                        Me and Bo

                                     Me and Rocky in the fedora I got him for his birthday!

                                                      Me and Bucky....after the show

Yall leave me some comments and let me know how ya liked the videos and such.....I'll be back with the latest Casey news as soon as there's something to post!!  

Oh yea, I almost forgot!!  I told Bucky I was gonna turn all my Casey fans onto his music by putting the videos on my site.....and he said....."Good.....maybe I can get some extra fans out of it!"  and laughed like he does!  He's so full of it!! :)

Until then.......