If you have any cowboy in you, you may recognize Texan Charla Corn. She’s sung at the National Finals Rodeo for the Professional Rodeo Cowboy’s Association. If you’re not a rodeo fan, it’s similar to the Super Bowl.

These folks are so serious about their rodeo, they literally store the dirt from each rodeo from year to year since it’s such a special, top secret mixture. If you remember the old days when Wrangler jeans were the redneck jean of choice, the company has made it official now with their sponsorship of the event. Besides being known around the rodeos, she’s a dj for 95.9 FM in Fort Worth.

Corn, who just got married, talked about how she spent Valentine’s Day. Besides eating sugar free chocolate (eek, why even bother?!) she had to get creative this year since most of my funds are going into the wedding festivities and my music career.  So this year I made my sweetie pie a work week worth of breakfast burritos!  Not fancy, but he sure does love ‘em with chorizo, egg, jalapenos, roasted potatoes and bacon in both flour and corn tortillas!   Yummy!
 
I, on the other hand, was spoiled rotten with a fancy dinner at our favorite Sushi joint with lots of saki and specialty rolls!  As well as a new workout shirt that I have been asking for!  I’ve got a good one girls!

Yes to anything with chorizo and potatoes. Still a big no to that sugar free chocolate. In an interview last year she did with Roothog, she talked about the blues (and where she liked to eat her bbq.)

Blues runs through my veins like the struggling creeks in south Texas. We may wander away and our souls may be dried up by the road, but blues will always flow through us. Growing up close to Lubbock and my dad being a huge lover of the blues, he would sneak me into Stubb’s BBQ so we could get just a taste of the musicianship…..and the ribs of course.

In that same interview, she explained how it is that she’s managed to do so much at once. My mother was very independent and my father was the hardest worker I’ve ever known. It was ingrained in me from the start to be a strong, Texas woman.

On Whitney Houston’s recent death…….I sang along to Whitney Houston’s music with a hairbrush in hand more than any other female artist in the 80s! ”I Believe The Children Are Our Future” was the first song I ever performed on a real stage in the 5th grade!  Her voice was a blessing, her addictions were her curse, her voice a gift to us all.

A big fan of Zane Williams, she’s also a regular with acoustic red dirt music at the Mule Barn in Justin, Texas. Look for her Wednesday nights.

Don’t Mind Missing You is the latest single off her EP Big T-Shirt with her band The Trainwrecks. The song was definitely not a train wreck itself, but it still was not as good as Charla Corn gets.It’s probably very radio friendly to a lot of folks and I suppose that’s good. But, honestly, it just sort of blended in with everything else. I think that’s a conundrum a lot of artists face…how to be different enough to be memorable, but not so different as to reduce their airplay possibilities at most stations.

I like Charla Corn overall, but this wasn’t my favorite song of hers. Keep watching her, though. She’s one of those with grit who’s in it for the long haul.

“There is simply nothing better for me than being onstage, performing for people and watching them have a great time. I am committed to that feeling, to that sense of purpose. It’s why I’m here.” ~ Charla

Goes Good With: Miranda Lambert

Rating: 5/10

Buy “Don’t Mind Missing You” at Charla’s website.