I'm featured in the Media Guide this month! I haven't read the article yet because it's "hot off the press," but I have had time to flip through the pages of the magazine online and I can tell that it is a REALLY GOOD issue with captivating photography and a cover story on the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Solomon Burke, plus downloadable audio interviews and acoustic performances with some of the most up-and-coming figures in Americana music today, including Carrie Rodriguez (a beautiful and kind-hearted musician who once gave me the key to a hotel room she wasn't using when I opened for her and Chip Taylor and didn't have a place to stay!), not to mention Band of Heathens, Reckless Kelly, Delbert McClinton, Todd Snider, Christopher Denny, KFAN Radio's Rick Star, Mark Jungers, and Dale Watson. There are also new VIDEOS From Chip Taylor (who wrote "Wild Thing" and "Try" for Janis Joplin), Girls Guns and Glory, Joe Thompson, and Natasha James, as well as VIDEO previews of the new DVD from Delbert McClinton and a cameo from Buddy Miller. All in all it's over 130 pages of Roots / Americana Music and interactive media! I know I'll look forward to exploring this new territory, and I hope that you will, too. Here's the link to the Media Guide cover: http://www.adcmediaguide.com/ Just use the "next" button at the bottom of your screen to move from page to page until you reach p. 22--Glenna Bell: The Real Texas Deal. September's going to be a GREAT month for music! I'm busy gearing up for shows in Dallas this weekend, then Nashville and a couple of trips to Austin for the Southwest Folk Alliance conference and Austin City Limits. I'm especially looking forward to my first time at the BIG Americana Music Association conference in Nashville. And I'm excited about playing a set at the Nashville Palace for the Gram Parsons Petition Project. Our goal is to get the CMA to induct Gram Parsons into the Country Music Hall of Fame. (Emmylou Harris was his protege, and she's already been inducted.) Gram was one of the pioneers of the Cosmic Cowboy/Country Rock movement and was one of the great ones to play Eddie Wilson's Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin. There's a write up on Gram at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gram_Parsons, and it is quite enlightening. Of course, there's always so much more--for next time. Until then, please check out the details on my Web sites and help me spread the word! I'm working hard to get the music out there, and The Road Less Traveled is now for sale at stores everywhere through Burnside Distribution in Portland, Oregon. If it isn't in stock, the store can order it from the distributor. Online sales go through Amazon.com, iTunes, and all of the usual suspects. Don't be a stranger now. Y'all come!