Oh, Manchester, So Much To Answer For

chet flippo has been writing killer shit for well over 25 years. he spent much of the '70s working for rolling stone (doing, among other covers, their dolly parton cover story in '78). he's always freelanced. and most all of the '90s he spent at billboard, before leaving a couple years ago to become the editorial director for cmt and cmt.com, where he also finds time to write his weekly "nashville skyline" column. this week's, about the relationship between country music and the white house, is very good reading (and writing). if you care about country music (be it commercial, bluegrass, Americana, or 'y'allternative'), you need to read chet.