Hello, everyone! I have an announcement to make.
Due to my schedule, which has been getting busier, as well as various other commitments, it seems the time has come for me to step down my blogging activity a slight notch or two. As you’re probably aware, I’ve been keeping up this site on my own while also contributing regularly to Country Universe and making occasional contributions to Roughstock. Unfortunately, my schedule has become such that I’ve been unable to keep up my 1-to-10 site to the quantity standards that I maintained early on in its existence (which has been the case for many months now). Thus, after having tossed around the idea for a good while, I have made the decision to place The 1-to-10 Country Music Review on indefinite hiatus.
Rest assured this does not mean that I intend to stop blogging, which I couldn’t do if I wanted to. But since running a website on my own is currently no longer feasible, Country Universe will now be the primary focus of my blogging efforts, where I will continue to post single reviews, album reviews, and interviews as my circumstances permit. So if Country Universe is not already on your reading list, please go check it out, because that’s mostly where I’ll be from now on.
This was certainly not an easy choice to make – I would be lying if I said that I didn’t have a tremendous sentimental attachment to my little 1-to-10 blog. But in the end, I believe working mainly as a part of a team-effort blog will be a much better situation for me. For now at least, I’m still going to leave the door open for me possibly reviving this site somewhere down the road, (“Retiring” just felt like too strong a word) though I can’t say I see that happening in the foreseeable future.
While I don’t intend to go off on a spiel as if I’d just won Album of the Year, I couldn’t conclude this announcement without offering a sincere thank you to all who have read and supported my site over the course of the two-and-a-half years I’ve been running it. Last but not least, big thanks to Matt Bjorke of Roughstock, and to Kevin Coyne and the rest of the Country Universe team for taking notice of my work, and giving me some of the best and most-cherished opportunities of my still-young blogging career. I can’t begin to say how much it’s meant to me.
Thanks to all! Looking forward to plenty more blogging fun to come in the near future.
- Ben Foster
I’ll close with the first song that I ever reviewed on my 1-to-10 blog. It all began with this song, so it might as well end with it.
Sharon Wells
September 21, 2012 at 12:34 AM
Ben, I know you, and I am confident you made this choice after some long prayerful considerations. I am sure this was the right thing to do. The door will open again. It might not be this door, perhaps an even better door..to newer brighter things. There is never enough time in the day for an ambitous young man like you. I feel confident you have chosen the “more important” things as part of this decision. I am proud of you.
Leeann Ward
September 22, 2012 at 3:19 AM
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Hello, everyone! I have an announcement to make.
Due to my schedule, which has been getting busier, as well as various other commitments, it seems the time has come for me to step down my blogging activity a slight notch or two. As you’re probably aware, I’ve been keeping up this site on my own while also contributing regularly to Country Universe and making occasional contributions to Roughstock. Unfortunately, my schedule has become such that I’ve been unable to keep up my 1-to-10 site to the quantity standards that I maintained early on in its existence (which has been the case for many months now). Thus, after having tossed around the idea for a good while, I have made the decision to place The 1-to-10 Country Music Review on indefinite hiatus.
Rest assured this does not mean that I intend to stop blogging, which I couldn’t do if I wanted to. But since running a website on my own is currently no longer feasible, Country Universe will now be the primary focus of my blogging efforts, where I will continue to post single reviews, album reviews, and interviews as my circumstances permit. So if Country Universe is not already on your reading list, please go check it out, because that’s mostly where I’ll be from now on.
This was certainly not an easy choice to make – I would be lying if I said that I didn’t have a tremendous sentimental attachment to my little 1-to-10 blog. But in the end, I believe working mainly as a part of a team-effort blog will be a much better situation for me. For now at least, I’m still going to leave the door open for me possibly reviving this site somewhere down the road, (“Retiring” just felt like too strong a word) though I can’t say I see that happening in the foreseeable future.
While I don’t intend to go off on a spiel as if I’d just won Album of the Year, I couldn’t conclude this announcement without offering a sincere thank you to all who have read and supported my site over the course of the two-and-a-half years I’ve been running it. Last but not least, big thanks to Matt Bjorke of Roughstock, and to Kevin Coyne and the rest of the Country Universe team for taking notice of my work, and giving me some of the best and most-cherished opportunities of my still-young blogging career. I can’t begin to say how much it’s meant to me.
Thanks to all! Looking forward to plenty more blogging fun to come in the near future.
- Ben Foster
I’ll close with the first song that I ever reviewed on my 1-to-10 blog. It all began with this song, so it might as well end with it.
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Sharon Wells
September 21, 2012 at 12:34 AM
Ben, I know you, and I am confident you made this choice after some long prayerful considerations. I am sure this was the right thing to do. The door will open again. It might not be this door, perhaps an even better door..to newer brighter things. There is never enough time in the day for an ambitous young man like you. I feel confident you have chosen the “more important” things as part of this decision. I am proud of you.
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Leeann Ward
September 22, 2012 at 3:24 AM
Oops! Sorry for my above comment. Not sure what happened there…
Anyway, we are very fortunate to have you with us at Country Universe. You’ve turned out to be quite a Godsend. Over the last couple of years, I can’t help but notice that your writing has gotten better and better. While I’m sure it was hard to make the decision to take a break from your personal country music blog, I know that we’re lucky and pleased that you have chosen to stick with us.:)
Shannon
September 24, 2012 at 3:09 PM
Your 1-10 blog is the first country blog I started reading with any regularity which led me to become a regular reader and semi-frequent commenter on Country Universe. I enjoy your writing style, reading your reviews and have found myself thinking “I wonder what Ben Foster thinks of this song” when I hear a new single or a new album is being released.
Paul W Dennis
September 24, 2012 at 10:50 PM
I wondered how long you’d be able to keep it up. You’re at the stage of life where the demands of actually living that life are enormous and can (and should) take precedence over things such as the 1-to10 blog. I didn’t comment often but rest assured that I checked your blog several times each week
Good luck with your future endeavors and I’ll look forward to reading you at Country Universe
Ben Foster
September 26, 2012 at 4:19 PM
Thanks for everyone’s kind words. The support is very much appreciated.
Lynn
September 29, 2012 at 4:09 AM
I’ve frequently visited this site ever since I discovered it, and I looked forward to reading your reviews. If there’s song/album review at CU that you did not write I wait for your review here to see what you think about it (this is true, not mere flattery lol). You give balanced reviews, something that i really appreciate. This and Country Universe are my favorite country websites. It makes me sad that you’ll be cutting back on blogging on this site, but I do understand why. Good luck, more power to you, I’m looking forward to your reviews over at CU and your other projects in the future.
Russ Berman
October 3, 2012 at 6:23 AM
I also used your blog as a regular way to keep in touch with the latest releases, and the same time get your take on them. Your reviews are down-to-earth and generally make sense to me. I like the fact that you don’t automatically run from the pop side of contemporary country. Anyway, thanks, and will continue to follow on CU, Best of luck with everything you take on from here.