Country Time Dance Lines Newsletter                                                              November 1, 2004

Country Time Dance Lines
The Times They Are A Changin’…


New Dances From Gloria Johnson:

Half Nekkid
For... "No Shirt No Shoes No Problem" by Kenny Chesney
Blue Rodeo
For...  "Blue Rodeo" by The Bellamy Brothers
Sundowner
For... "When The Sun Goes Down" by Kenny Chesney & Uncle Kracker

Upgrades To The Site:

We’ve made the following changes to the main section of the site:

Upgraded navigational structure of the entire site

Added a Chat Room

Redesigned the layout

Redesigned many of the graphics

 

In the Archives, we already have started adding or have added:

Choreographer’s Address Book

Song Listing with dances for each

DanceTalk: a discussion web for dancers

Future Plans:

Watch for the following improvements and upgrades in the Dance Archives:

Video dance instruction

Searchable database

Couples and pattern step sheets

 

Do you remember “Sweet Pea”? Can you believe it, she’s 6 ½ years old now, in first grade and missing not one or two, but FOUR front teeth! And yes, that IS her natural head of hair!

Country Time Archives Will Soon Be “Paid”

It’s been a long time coming, but we are finally converting the Country Time Dance Lines Archives over to a “paid” sub-domain of the main site. We have hosted this site and paid the expenses of housing it since 1994, but can no longer continue to offer these pages for free. Annual subscription costs will be offered for just $15.95 USD, and multi-year subscriptions will be offered which will save the subscriber 10% to 20% over the annual cost. With these prices, you can rest assured that we won’t be making a “dot.com fortune”, just covering expenses and making a living. Target date for the change-over is November 1, 2004.

 

Have You Seen The Remodeled Site?
We’ve done quite a bit of remodeling and updating to the site. If you haven’t been on-line lately, you may want to take a look at the work we’ve done. To get there, simply double-click the logo to the left, or enter http://www.country-time.com in your browser! There are now OVER 5,000 step sheets in the Line Dance section of the Dance Archives!

Save $ With A Charter 100 Subscription
If you are looking to save some cash in the long run, consider the Charter 100 Subscription! The 1st 100 subscribers will get a LIFETIME subscription for just $39.95 including all future upgrades like videos! Folks from all over the USA and even the UK have started subscribing at the special rate! After the 1st 100, the price goes UP, so don’t miss out on this offer! It’s very easy to subscribe, just go to the main site at www.country-time.com and follow the link to PayPal where you can use their secure SSL server to process a credit card or even an e-check. Dancin’ Steve Shaw of Sacramento, California was the first to sign up for the Charter 100 subscription, and he has been followed by many others even from as far away as Great Britain.

We Won’t be Gettin’ Rich With These  Subscription Rates!

Like we said before, we aren’t looking to make a “dot.com fortune”, just pay the bills, make a living, and bring Gloria home from her part-time job. So we don’t plan on “getting’ rich”! Below is a chart of the subscription rates for the new Country Time Dance Lines Archives:

SUBSCRIPTION

RATE

STANDARD SUBSCRIPTIONS
Dance step sheets, DanceTalk discussion web, NO VIDEO

 

1 YEAR - Standard

$15.95

2 YEAR - Standard

$27.95

3 YEAR - Standard

$36.95

LIFETIME

$49.95

When the video dance instruction comes on-line, we will begin offering a “Deluxe” subscription in each of these categories that will include access to the Video Library as well as everything the Standard Subscription gets. Rates for those subscriptions will be approximately double these rates and there will be an upgrade offered to those subscribers already enrolled.

Dusty Undergoes Open-heart Surgery Again

Many of you may not know it, but Dusty underwent open-heart surgery in February 2001 for an ascending aortic dissection, the same malady that killed the actor John Ritter (TV: Three’s Company) in 2003. Dusty was a very lucky man. He was airlifted to Shand’s Hospital at the University Of Florida in Gainesville, Florida where he underwent the emergency surgery in the middle of the night at the hand of one of the top thorasic-cardiology surgeons in the country, Dr. Thomas Martin. Just before the annual Country Time cruise in 2003, he became ill again and was hospitalized with a staph infection of the bloodstream. Released from the hospital the night before the cruise left (and prohibited from going on the cruise by the doctors), he was cared for by in-home nurses and on an intravaneous anti-biotic until February 2004. In March and again in April of this year he again was hospitalized for 10-12 days each. In May, he was again airlifted to Shand’s where he underwent another round of open-heart surgery to replace the earlier aortic graft that had become infected. Dusty now has a porcine valve in his heart and a tube made of Dacron in his chest that replaces his aorta. As for the infection, he remains under the care of the infectious diseases doctors at Shand’s Hospital, and the prognosis is very basic: the infection cannot be cured, only controlled.