Nashville Flooding

In case you haven't heard, "Music City" is under water. Many people have lost their lives and their homes. A buddy of mine had his truck destroyed, and his mother's house was damaged. Also the Grand Ole Opry house, Opryland Hotel, the Country Music Hall of Fame, and many famed tourist locations are totally underwater. It is crazy how bad it is out there.

Starting today through next Monday, May 10th with each cd purchase or Mp3 download on my website, www.bencoulteronline.com, I will donate 1/2 of the money to the Middle Tennessee Red Cross chapters to help the flood victims. So if you've been thinking about buying any albums or the new album, this is a great weekend to do it!

Be sure and keep all the people in Middle Tennessee in your thoughts and prayers.

New Album - Outlaw

Well I had hoped to finish recording all the songs for my new album today, but a head cold is keeping me from that. I'm really excited about this album. I hope to capture what my music is all about with this album. It should capture "Country Music...Delta Style" to the tee. I want this to be the album that really starts getting nationwide attention. I think it's gonna be some of my best work! We will see!!

"Paintin' and Pickin'" in the Heights

Last week I had the pleasure of performing at "By the Glass" (www.btgbar.com) on Kavanaugh in Little Rock. It's a really cool wine bar in the Heights. For the show they brought in a local artist and a local musician, who was me! They paired me with Barry Thomas (www.barrythomasart.com) a nationally known artist from Ferndale, AR. Barry is an incredible artist. The energy in the place was awesome! Barry painted as I performed, and both arts really complimented each other. Barry didn't know what he was going to paint until he started, and he decided to paint a picture of me performing! It was really awesome! It took him about an hour, and he blew it away. There is a picture above of the finished product. If you've ever seen me perform you know he captured how I move with the guitar. It's really cool stuff. When he finished the painting of me, he painted the bar. He was done with that in about 30 minutes. It was quite an experience. I'm gonna use a picture of the painting he did of me for the cover of my next album. I look forward to performing at "By the Glass" and with Barry Thomas again in the future! I hope you will check out there websites. By the Glass' website is www.btgbar.com. Barry Thomas' site is www.barrythomasart.com.

Pics from the event are shown above.

I saw the light

If you've ever been to one of my shows and stayed till the end you've heard me end with "I saw the Light". The old Hank Williams classic is one of my favorite songs. Very rarely do I end a show with another song. You may wonder why? Well I heard Connie Smith talking one time how you end with a song that sums you up. She always ends with "how great thou art". So I decided to always end with "I Saw The Light". That song sums me up. Jesus saved me and showed me the Light and so me singing that song is just another way of showing it! I've sang it in places where you wander if there's light at all in there. I guess that's my calling is to go to the dark places and carry the Light of Jesus there. It's amazing sometimes the joy that comes on peoples faces when I sing that song. Even in the darkest places there is always light. I see it more everyday.

Street team

I'm putting together a street team. It's long overdue that I create this group. This group will consist of die hard fans of me and my music! They will spread the word about my music. I'm really excited to get this goin. I think it will do wonders for my career! Well, back to work!

An artist's look

Every artist has a look. People knew Johnny Cash as the man in black because he always wore black. Porter wagoner always wore a shiny, flashy nudie suit. Waylon personified the outlaw image. All these artist's look magnified their music. What they wore was a huge part of their success. What I'm getting at is my look. What is it? Over the past year I've wrestled with the look. I went from dressing like George strait to wearing dress pants and a tie, and now back to the George look. Neither of these mirrors my music. Neither screams country and blues. That's what I'm looking for, a look that mirrors my music. An image that screams country and blues. An image that personifies "Country Music...Delta Style". I will find it one day, and will know it when I see it!

New album

Well I've finally started recording my new album. The album will be called "Outlaw", and will have some surprises! I've already recorded 2 songs on the album. I'm really excited with how things are progressing! I will give some of the tunes on the album a sound that my fans have never heard from me before! I can't wait for y'all to hear it. A song on the album, "made to be tied down" can be seen on my website bencoulteronline.com.