No matter how much you protest, no matter how much you turn up  and shut the world out, no matter how much you pretend not to linger on the high 90s end of the FM dial, I know that somewhere in there is the tiniest bit of love for country music. Even if it comes in the form of Carrie Underwood on the alternative stations or the smudgy black eyeliner mask over honky-tonkin'-at-heart Daughtry or even some Grand Ol' School Opry sample embedded in hip-hop, you know you know at least one twangy tune. And so just to say that that's OK (really. seriously. i kid you not), here's a bit of country goodness going on in a URL near you:

 
* Alison Bonaguro's Backstage-101: A Country Bloglossary is a handy take-away even for we Pussycat Doll Fans4Life.

* Curtis Edmonds of Northbound's assessment of The Most Depressing Country Songs of All Time. Grab you some Jim Beam and dig right in. 

* Charlie from Nobody Asked Me, But...'s talking badonkadonks with the bakidakid (sorry...even I am rolling my eyes at that lame attempt at wordplay).

* Fabulous...Mommy....FussyPants is dreaming of meeting country-by-marriage Nicole Kidman in her Target, which is totally possible, y'allses who are shaking your heads no.

* Jim Thomsen of Ninja of the Mundane is NOT a country fan. And he's really NOT a  fan of Toby Keith. He's listened to Toby Keith's new album twice and is giving out mad props to his musicianship, but whatever you do, DO NOT mistake him for a country fan of Toby Keith.