Thank you for the kind words. It’s been a fun blogging journey over the past two years, and I can’t wait to see where it leads in the future. Thanks for supporting the sites!

it became even more bewildering, when ben foster all of a sudden appeared not only on the comment threads, but also as a full scale member of the editors bunch of cu. i realised that i even became somewhat hesitant to open my fridge – ben might have been in there. anyways, his transformation from omnipresent commentator to full scale editor here has been fantastic. he couldn’t have played a better rookie season and reviews passed to him were in very steady hands, scoring even one or the other touchdown.

i really look forward to his next steps in the game. the start could have hardly been more promising.

At some point, it dawned on me that I am, like, the only one who didn’t say how I first found Country Universe. If I remember correctly, I was led to Country Universe through a link that appeared in a Wikipedia article about one of my favorite singles by (surprise) Sara Evans. The review thoroughly and succintly summarized the same qualities that drew me to the song. That was when Country Universe first caught my attention.
http://www.countryuniverse.net/2007/06/01/review-sara-evans-as-if/

After I discovered The 9513 a few months later, it along with Country Universe, and later My Kind of Country and Country California, became regular reading. Leeann had a very active comment thread presence on The 9513 as well as other sities, which also helped encourage me to keep checking out Country Universe. I soon found myself participating in comment thread discussions on a regular basis, and though I made quite a few nutty comments in those early days, I found myself feeling more and more at home in the CU community. Needless to say, I absolutely flipped when I got the email from Kevin inviting me to join the writing staff.

It’s been a wonderful experience, and I can’t wait to see what the site’s next eight years hold.