Brett Favre Talks Football and More on Atlanta Radio Today

Brett Favre joined the mid-day show on 790 The Zone in Atlanta today to talk football, his career, and the Green Bay Packers.

Here's what he had to say:

Favre said he missed the competition and games each week.  "There's nothing like being in the locker room"

Favre said he felt stress to perform at a high level each week.  #packers

Favre:  "I didn't regret coming back."

Favre says Peyton Manning is in a tough position.  It's tough to just stop playing.

Favre on leaving Atlanta after one year:  "No one could've known how my career would've turned out.  Better than I could've dreamed."

Favre on not winning multiple Super Bowls:  "It was disappointing."  My career was very, very rewarding to me."  "I have no regrets."

Favre on Aaron Rodgers winning the Suer Bowl:  "I was surprised they didn't do it sooner."  The talent pool there across the board was outstanding!"

More Favre on Aaron Rogers: "He watched, he learned."  "He fell into a good situation, but he's a good player."

On his broadcast career being like football.  Favre:  "It's all about reps."

The Band Perry Rocks the North Georgia State Fair

A crowd estimated as one of the biggest ever took in The Band Perry on Thursday night in Marietta, GA.

A full review out later today, but here are some pics.

Kimberly, Neil and Reid Perry

Pictures From Josh Kelley Playing North GA State Fair on Saturday

I did a more complete review of the Josh Kelley concert held Saturday night at the North Georgia State fair here: 

http://news.yahoo.com/josh-kelley-shows-range-southern-roots-north-georgia-175900394.html

But here are some more shots from his 90 minute set in Marietta.  Kelley is married to actress Kathryn Heigl and his brother Charles is in the country group, Lady Antebellum, but Josh Kelley does a great job performing in the country genre himself.  He writes his own music, but also mixes it up with covers that show his range as a performer.

America News: Good and Sad

After just hearing about a new release from one of the most prolific and litened to bands of all-time, America, comes the news of the passing of one of the band's founding members.

First, some good news.

Grammy-winning rock group AMERICA--led for four decades by Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell and as active as ever with over 100 live shows worldwide a year--has released a new album, Back Pages, via Entertainment One Music. It is a rich, joyous collection of a dozen glimmering interpretations of songs by Bob Dylan, The Buffalo Springfield, Simon and Garfunkel, the Beach Boys, Jimmy Webb, Mark Knopfler as well as Fountains of Wayne, New Radicals and Gin Blossoms, among others. Upon hearing AMERICA's version of his song "Caroline No" by the Beach Boys, Brian Wilson said: "An absolutely stunning version...I almost got tears."

For all their success as hit writers of enduring rock-folk-pop classics like "A Horse With No Name," "Ventura Highway," "Sister Golden Hair," and so many others, Gerry and Dewey have never created a project that paid tribute to their favorite songs and songwriters, until now.

Available at Amazon here:

And some sad news...

America's co-founder, Dan peek has died at age 60, Billboard reports. His wife Catherine found him in bed in his home in Farmington, Mo., on Sunday. The cause of death is not yet known.

Originally from Panama City, Fla., Peek moved to the United Kingdom in the late 1960s when the Air Force sent his father to work at military base there. He met his future bandmates, Dewey Bunnell and Gerry Beckley, at London Central High School, a school for the children of military personnel.

The trio formed America soon after graduating, choosing the name to signal that they were real Americans, not just British musicians putting on accents, which was the thing to do back in those days.

The band’s first single, “A Horse With No Name,” was a number one song in 1971. Other hits included "Lonely People” and “Sister Golden Hair."

Peek left the band in 1977 to establish a career as a Christian pop artist.

Pandora Falls on Second Day of Trading

Shares of Pandora Radio, a online streaming music service, dropped below their offer price on Thursday.

Pandora was first offered on the New Yok Stock marketing on Wednesday for $16 per share but it plunged to $13.26 on Thursday, losing almost 24 per cent. They bubbled to $26 temporarily in early trading Wednesday, but it didn't last long and ended at $17.42 for Wednesday.

Pandora has garnered 90 million users since it was established in 2000. However, Pandora has yet to make a profit and some financial analysts are pessimistic about the outlook of the firm since the company has to pay huge money for music license.

Analysts think fluctuation on Pandora's share will make investors lose interest in buying Pandora's share.
However, Pandora has initially raised $235 million and had a market value of $2.55 billion at its offer price. Pandora's market capitalization was more than what many analysts valued the firm.

Pandora is selling 6 million of the shares in the IPO, while existing shareholders are offering 8.7 million.