Even the label 'country' could be doing a disservice to some of the younger artists who are more crossover - a bit of pop, a bit of rock, a bit of country.

I'll be releasing the four country artists' names up to the event. The first one is Andy Griggs.

Great artists have no country.

while there is definitely some country influences in my music since I used to listen to artists like Reba McEntire and Patsy Cline but I kind of went with the times and what was popular on the radio and it led me to the newer stuff but I don't think there's any chance that I'll ever get all of the country out of what I do.

I saw her salt-and-pepper hair all over the country. She was kneeling in the small stone churches. She was sitting in the tiny pubs and laughing with her girlfriends. She was making boiled dinner in the country bed and breakfast. And the aroma was divine.

Guys don't understand great art. They don't care that sometimes the camera has power beyond the photographer to record emotion that only the heart can see. They're threatened when the camera jumps ahead of me. Todd Kovich was pissed when I brought my Nikon to the prom, but I'd missed too many transcendent shots over the years to ever take a chance of missing one again. A prom, I told him, had a boundless supply of photogenic bozos who could be counted on to do something base.