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In honor of Wade and Randy dropping their new album on Friday (May 8), Hold My Beer: Vol. 2...

Well it was done without fanfare, none that we can find. Not a tweet nor a post on Stoney LaRue's Facebook page, but this week the "Blending Colors" music video was released online. The absence of write ups, and total lack of social media sharing has us thinking that we must have missed something, maybe it's not supposed to be public...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Rita Ballou Forsakes ‘Rawhide and Velvet,’ Joins Radio Texas, LIVE! Team TEXAS (MAY 9, 2015) – Rita Ballou, Diva Extraordinaire and founder of Texas/Red Dirt gossip-news site RawhideAndVelvet.com, has joined Radio Texas, LIVE! front man Buddy Logan in announcing that she will be taking her Perez Hilton Pulitzer Prize-style writing talents to Mia ... uh, RadioTexasLive.com.

This week marks the 30th consecutive year that I have not attended Music Fest in Steamboat Springs, Colo. Yup, that's right, I've never been to Texas and Red Dirt's biggest music and ski festival. It's sad. But thanks to the ingenuity of my pal, Rita Ballou, #FlatBuddyLogan will not be suffering the same fate as I...

Rita Ballou joins Radio Texas, LIVE! each week to keep us up to date on all the 'Dirt' in the Texas and Red Dirt Music scene. This week: Randy Rogers "Trouble" previews, some folks forgot to show at the TRRMA's and a preview of the Lone Star Music Awards.

Rita Ballou joins Radio Texas, LIVE! each week to keep us up to date on all the 'Dirt' in the Texas and Red Dirt Music scene. This week: Good news for Whiskey Myers fans, The Rankin Twins are on television, Kyle Park has a new video, Rita and I discuss who's responsible for what on our first date -- which is Sunday (4/21) plus more.

Rita Ballou joins Radio Texas, LIVE! each week to keep us up to date on all the happenings in the Texas and Red Dirt Music scene. This week Rita gave us the scoop, this week we get a Rita review of Eli Young Band's new video, plus the first ever "All the Dirt in Red Dirt -- in Reverse!"

I enjoy Cory Morrow music, always have. Well now it seems our ol' pal Cory has gone and immortalized the "If you don't like it, don't read it" girl, Rita Ballou for all time and all eternity. He and Brian Keane have written a song called "Glass Houses," it's about rumors, and lies -- so naturally Rita too.

Rita Ballou, blogger extraordinaire, from RawhideandVelvet.com joins Radio Texas, LIVE! each week to keep us up to date on all the dirt in the Texas and Red Dirt Music scene. This week Randy Rogers Band has a leak, No Justice is giving someone a guitar plus the big scoop on the Christmas Acoustic tours in Texas plus more. Check out this week's Dirt.

Rita Ballou from Rawhide and Velvet joins Radio Texas, LIVE! each week to keep us up to date on all the happenings in the Texas and Red Dirt Music scene. This week Eli Young Band redeem themselves, The Departed take over the internet and we get an update on Bart Crow's back surgery plus more, here’s All the Dirt in Red Dirt. He...

We've got a Wade Bowen update, you'll definitely recognize Cody Canada and The Departed's new tour-mate and we of course talk about Josh Abbott's brand new video. Rita Ballou from RawHideAndVelvet.com joins the RTX Crew each week for All the Dirt in Red Dirt, here's a preview of what she has for us on tonight's episode of Radio Texas Live.

I realize I am extremely late posting last week's dirt so let's get right into it.  It appears a certain Straggler is now not leaving the band, after posting that he was. JB and The Moonshine Band are going on a 21 city tour with a rapper, there's a new hashtag sweeping the Twitter nation and the finalist for the Lone Star Music Awards have been set and are awaiting your votes -- Rita Ballou joins