Join me this week on The Country Den, brought to you by Backstage, Thunder Bay’s newest music and accessory store at 215 Red River Road.

I’ll play classic country tunes linked to well known catch phrases, sayings and cliches about birds with Little Jimmy Dickens, Ferlin Husky and Anne Murray; dogs featuring Billy Currington, Pattie Page and Blake Shelton; I’ll focus on friendship with Don Williams, Hank Williams Jr. and Tracy Lawrence; counting up wise words about pennies and green grass from my Classic Country Legend Porter Wagoner; working with Merle Haggard and Garth Brooks; popular catchphrases from Kathy Mattea and Craig Morgan hits; plus time, love and apples, one a day keeps the doctor away, I hope.