In a recent interview, Jim Russell explained why he decided to sell after so long.
âBecause Iâm old and he wanted it,â he said, pointing to Jim Coddington. âIâm 72 years old. Iâve been here for 44 years, and I think itâs probably time.â
Coddington said finding the lumberyard for sale helped him and his family achieve a lifeâs goal.
âI told people a couple of years ago, weâd been vacationing out here for several years and we loved it so much, if we could find a way to make a living, weâd move out here,â he said.
In 2008, Eric Church married Katherine Blasingame at Westglow Spa & Resort in Blowing Rock, N.C. The couple had stayed at the resort before, and, he tells CMT, “We decided that it would be the ideal spot to get married, up in the North Carolina mountains, with just family around us. I can’t imagine a more perfect spot.”
During Church s wedding, the now-country star performed a song he wrote for his new wife, called You Make It Look So Easy; the song appears on his record
Carolina. It was a surprise for Katherine,
and it was a surprising move for Church: I hate love songs, he admits. I have a hard time with them. I think they’ve been done so many times, and I hate stuff that’s just your cliches.