Sincere Thanks go out to all my fans for keeping Blackmore's Country alive. Blackmore's Country dearly loves pleasing our fans with down-home country music.

Please help keep your favourite musicians and music alive! If you enjoy the music, support your entertainers!

MP3 Bootlegging is wrong. There can be no doubt about that. No matter whether you're emailing a copy of your favorite song to a friend or setting up an FTP site with your entire collection of albums all MP3ed available for download, it's an infringement of copyright law. Unless, of course, you have legal permission to do so.

Illegal file-sharing has been a major cause of the decline in global music sales in the last five years. This in turn has caused widespread cuts and job losses across the industry, affecting retailers, record companies and their artist rosters, recording studios, song writers, management companies, publishers and many others sectors, all of them economically dependent on copyrighted music. Both they, and their artists, are losing revenue. In 1997, the industry was worth $38.1 billion. That's twice the gross domestic product of Afghanistan!