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Advertising and commercials can be great tools to keep people in the know.  Of course you do have some commercials, like the Forever Lazy, that make you cringe every time it starts to come on.  Or how about that ASPCA commercial where Sarah McLaughlin sings “Angel” while all the sad hurt animals stare at you.  I know that’s enough to bring on the tears in my house.

Anyway, there are some commercials out there that I really do ...

My parents were the type that recorded everything I did as a small child.  When I return home for the holidays they often force me to sit down and watch these ridiculous and shaky home videos, and in almost all of them I am singing or dancing.  Music was obviously an important component in our home.  On my third birthday I was singing White Snake’s “Once Bit Twice Shy” and I kept asking to hear some Bocephus (that’s Hank Williams ...

One of the family’s favorite music reality shows to watch is The Sing-Off on NBC.  We have watched our fair share of shows like American Idol and such, but the talent on this show is just unbelievable.  Instead of singing along to music, the groups that perform for a Sony Music contract are all a cappella groups.  They are the music, and it is absolutely incredible to watch popular songs be transformed into amazing music only masterpieces.  Last night’s show was no ...

As musicians, my family always has music of some type playing in the background of everything we do.  Some of us have even picked out songs that are the theme songs of our life.  You know that particular song that you would love to have playing overhead anytime you walk in the door to anyplace, like in the movies? Surely you have thought about your own theme song, and if you haven’t I suggest you do so now.  I ...

In 2004 I heard of this guy who was far too cool for a record label with a country sound.  His name was Corey Smith.  The first time I heard his voice singing out lyrics that were not just catchy but applicable to my life, I was hooked.  I have his albums and I have seen him in concert.  Oh and I forgot to mention, his song “First Dance,” that was the song my husband and I danced to at ...