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!! UPDATE:  I just talked to my friend Glenn Sweitzer of Fresh Films, he told me that just last week he shot a special video for Rissi and CMT - look for this new video to hit the airwaves soon!!

I haven’t had a chance to write about Rissi Palmer in a while. As long time readers know, I love Rissi and I’ve had her on site from the beginning (really, NashvilleHype! was a very early supporter of Rissi!). A few minutes ago I actually saw an ad on MySpace for her and I thought I should go over to her site, like you should, and get caught up.

Rissi, I’m happy to say, is doing fantastic. I’m not in Nashville right now but on her site I see she was mentioned in the Tennessean for being a knockout on the red carpet at the ACMs. That’s pretty cool… but this is cooler:

This is pretty cool!  I’ll tell you why:

I’m a little tired (though I understand it’s all a part of the process of allowing people to know who ’you’ are) of the stories about Rissi’s race and influence in country music.   I HEARD Rissi and I knew she was country to the bone and is awesome (just like my friend Miko Marks who’s fantastic).  In fact, I had first written about Rissi in an article about Charlie Pride - and in a really ironic twist, I even mentioned that fully 25% of NASCAR fans are black – making the point that just as NASCAR is missing a great opportunity to expand it’s audience, so is country music.

Now admittedly I haven’t read the accompanying article in the magazine here, but I’m pretty sure it’s about Rissi and her Dog - not about how a black female is singing country music.  And I find THAT cool!

P.S.  as a bonus pic (and to drive home the NASCAR point) - here’s another pic on Rissi’s site:

Rissi with Jr.  — That Rocks!

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