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Comment on Tim McGraw – “Better Than I Used to Be” by Katrina Kitty Mayo

Katrina Kitty Mayo — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 23:26:31 +0000

I agree with what you say here, I dont like tims lyrical changes, Sammy is the man!

Comment on 1-to-10 Taking a Break by Russ Berman

Russ Berman — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 06:23:44 +0000

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.

Comment on 1-to-10 Taking a Break by Lynn

Lynn — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 04:09:20 +0000

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.

Comment on 1-to-10 Taking a Break by Ben Foster

Ben Foster — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:19:21 +0000

Thanks for everyone’s kind words. The support is very much appreciated.

Comment on 1-to-10 Taking a Break by Paul W Dennis

Paul W Dennis — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 22:50:29 +0000

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

Comment on 1-to-10 Taking a Break by Shannon

Shannon — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 15:09:36 +0000

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.

Comment on 1-to-10 Taking a Break by Leeann Ward

Leeann Ward — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 03:24:11 +0000

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.:)

Comment on 1-to-10 Taking a Break by Leeann Ward

Leeann Ward — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 03:19:29 +0000

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1-to-10 Taking a Break

20Sep

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.

Comment on 1-to-10 Taking a Break by Sharon Wells

Sharon Wells — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:34:59 +0000

Comment on Album Review: Joey + Rory – His and Hers by Ben Foster

Ben Foster — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 02:58:45 +0000

I didn’t really know how to discuss “The Bible and the Belt” in a way that felt objective, so I chose to skirt it, but I’m generally with you. I don’t like the song at all. I’m all for parents properly disciplining their children, but I think saying ‘Parents need to whack their kids with belts more often these days’ is a poor way to convey such message…. < Hey, maybe I should have wrote THAT