Country Gold Weekend launches the weekend of Friday January 6, 2010 and can be heard on radio stations everywhere! Charlie Daniels will be Mitchell's first Artist Spotlight guest on the show.

Be sure to listen to Country Gold Weekend for your chance to win a trip for 2 to see Taylor Swift in New York City. Happy holidays from our family to yours!

Charlie Daniels was born on Oct. 28, 1936, in Wilmington, N.C., and raised on a musical diet that included Pentecostal gospel, local bluegrass bands and the rhythm & blues and country music from Nashville's 50,000-watt radio stations WLAC and WSM. He graduated from high school in 1955. Already skilled on guitar, fiddle and mandolin, Daniels formed a rock 'n' roll band and hit the road.

Charlie is in the Spotlight the weekend of January 6!

Hello, Mitchell. My name is Shannon and I'm a single mother of three grown boys.

Well, my story goes back fourteen years.  I was living in Santa Cruz, it was the summer of 1995, and that was when I met a man named Keith. Keith was not only an umpire at my son's little league games, he was also the deejay at the local country radio station.

At the time, I was going through a divorce and getting out of an abusive relationship.  It was the low point of my life… and the future… well, I had three boys I knew I was going to have to raise alone.   Read More