Daily Archives: November 12, 2025

Kenny Chesney is opening up a lot these days about himself. He’s promoting his buzzy new memoir, HEART LIFE MUSIC. Per Country Now, the beloved leader of No Shoes Nation stopped in Nashville and talked frankly about his life and career. Amazingly, there was a time, Chesney said, when he was tempted to pivot away […]

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Remembering their late friend and colleague. On November 6, an LG&E line technician tragically passed away in an accident while working on a reconductor power line. The accident took place in Oldham County, Kentucky, leaving the late lineman Kyle Ferree’s family wanting answers to how this accident occurred. “We lost today a friend and co-worker who was an LG&E line technician, fatally injured while working to reconductor a power line. This is a tragic loss for our entire LG&E and […]

The post Kentucky Linemen Hold Emotional “Last Call” Ceremony For Colleague, Kyle Ferree, Who Was Tragically Killed On The Job: “God Gained A Good Lineman Today” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

Can a deer be charged for breaking and entering? It’s hilarious to think that deer hunters often spend endless hours sitting in tree stands waiting for deer to walk by. It leads one to believe that the species is gifted at evading human contact. But then you have videos like these, where deer throw themselves into the face of danger, and that theory can be thrown out the window. Just 30 minutes south of Nashville sit the lovely town of […]

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A stroke in 2013 affected the ability for Randy Travis to speak and sing, but a new video shows the singer continues to make progress.

The post Randy Travis Fans Witness Amazing Progress on Country Star’s Latest Video appeared first on Wide Open Country.

Jimmy Kimmel has had a rough couple of months. In September, his late-night TV show was pulled off the air temporarily because of remarks Kimmel made about the recent murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Now the comedian has been dealt another harrowing emotional blow. His cherished pal and bandleader, Cleto Escobedo III, 59, has […]

The post Jimmy Kimmel Weeps on Air Talking About His Pal and Bandleader, the Late Cleto Escobedo III: “We Lost Someone Very Special” appeared first on Wide Open Country.

Given that she’s performed around 500 shows over the past three and a half years, we can’t say we blame her.

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Longtime readers know I love a good kiss-off song. “I Don’t Like You,” the title of Low Roller’s new single, seems prime for the list. It’s not — it’s actually the opposite. “Sometimes I don’t like you, but I love you anyway,” singer-songwriter Veronica Davila declares. The song recognizes that conflict can be healthy in a relationship […]

Yearwood also recorded her own version of his song for her new holiday album, ‘Christmastime.’ Continue reading…

That old adage “it takes a village” is, quite literally, what made it possible for Courtney Hartman to make her latest album With You, a soft study of motherhood and all the beautiful and harrowing ways it upends a life. Hartman did what might be the hardest thing

Courtney Hartman With You There are any number of happenings that could have derailed the completion of Courtney Hartman’s latest album, With You. The Wisconsin-by-way-of-Colorado singer-songwriter and her husband experienced home renovation woes, crises both medical and financial (which required money saved for recording sessions to be spent on life’s essentials) and, biggest of all, […]

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