Borepatch

Country music is alive and well in the Emerald Isle.   Glór Tíre is a long running and highly rated country music talent competition on Ire...

I was born by God's dear Grace in an extraordinary place.  Happy Birthday to that place. I pledge allegiance to that flag, and if that b...

Not just stranger than you think, but stranger than you can imagine.  A few years back, The Queen Of The World and I rev'ed up the Harle...

This tree : Voted   Tree of the Year in 2016   by the conservation charity Woodland Trust, the Sycamore Gap Tree was one of the most photogr...

It's a long way from Indian Trail, North Carolina to Varetz, France -  but Country Music is a thread that joins them.   Leigh Ann Aberne...

This week is St. Patrick's Day when everyone is Irish.  Interestingly, the ever-musical Irish have a flair for Country music so this is ...

It's funny because it's true. The TV was on and the (ex?) Royal couple came on.  The Queen Of The World coined the nickname in the...

Nashville attracts dreams from all over; in this case, from Hertfordshire in England.  Alas, the country music of our day is pop infused, bu...

A post from ten years ago: From  Adventures in Deutschland : We saw this on our way out of town Saturday. On a Texas highway, I would no...

This dude drove off an attacking bear by biting off its tongue : According to Russian truth orifice RT , Nikolay Irgit was collecting shed...

Tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day, which calls for Irish music.  Interestingly, Ireland has a pretty thriving country music scene, one whe...

Europe has a thriving redneck community.  Sometime last week, the Queen Of The World and I were out where the TV was tuned to the " Sid...

So far, at least. The New Year's celebration has already begun in Europe (heck, it's already over in Asia).  Cologne has been mu...

France has been burning, with riots over pretty much the whole country and hundreds of people injured and/or arrested.  The trigger for all ...

It looks like the EU is working on dropping most tariffs - and since these added something like four grand to the cost of a hog sold there, ...

Hilarity Exactly what you'd expect breaks out : On Saturday almost 1,500 motorcyclists gathered in Aix-en-Provence in the Provence-Al...

I don't post much recent Country Music because is American Country Music isn't dead, it's coughing up blood.  It sounds the same...

You've heard of Spaghetti Westerns, right?  Today is Spaghetti Country & Western.  George McAnthony was an Italian singer/songwriter...

The original roots of Country music come from the Scots-Irish immigrants who settled in the Appalachia hill country in the 18th and 19th Cen...

Underground beer pipes : The Belgian city of Bruges has approved plans to build a pipeline which will funnel beer underneath its famous co...