The Heath Post

Sometimes I'm not able to post comments on this blog, so the rest of the countdown goes here: Number 7:   Don McLean, "American Pie...

As you know, I listen to Casey Kasem's countdown almost every Saturday at 11 AM Central on Sirius/XM 70's on 7 Channel.  But this we...

I'm in the mood for another AT 40, and I wanted one from late June.  So I found the countdown for June 28, 1980 on YouTube, and I'm ...

It is 1980, and here are some nice-looking Australian soft-rock explorers, gazing back into the future from which they came. What is that py...

Rest in peace, Coach Noles, who once tripled as a 19-year-old member of the "KITTY" League Union City (Tennessee) Greyhounds , ...

I am more and more satisfied with the NFL Network, particularly its offseason programming. They just ran an ad for its 1985 Caught in the Dr...

Breaking ... Coal Miner's Daughter is on Turner Classic Movies right now, and--spoiler alert--it's FANTASTIC!

We take this break from 1969 to check in with Jim McKay and the XIII Olympic Winter Games on ABC tonight (Feb. 22), 1980 ...

Bon Appétit Appalachia! Good jobs news from Henderson , London and Louisville . Hiring in downtown Marion . Ominous Christmas news ...

" Our definition of the seasons is no longer determined by when they actually start, but by when our idea of them starts. " The ...

I've been re-reading The Name of the Rose , the wonderful Italian novel about medieval theology by Umberto Eco, in the elegant translati...

"Our hearts are heavy in Fredonia tonight." “Let them pull that stuff in other places if they want, but not in Jackson County, ...

When I was in the 8th grade, the Heath girls' team made it to the state basketball tournament.  This was a very big deal -- to this day,...

And the beat goes on . Yes ,  Harrodsburg realizes, too . Madisonville's barefoot "Boscoe" France is No. 1 in t...

I have been a Kentuckian since I was three years old, but I have never actually met anyone who roots for the Louisville Cardinals. I once w...

After Born to Run and Darkness on the Edge of Town , The River found Springsteen moving off into a new direction.  Lyrically the character...

If you were going to label one band as setting the full template for heavy metal it would have to be Black Sabbath.  They hit the scene in 1...