The call it “The Honky Tonk in a Hayfield,” and patrons say it’s not just about how the lineup is curated. It’s also about the curation of the crowd and how they’re all like-minded country fans.
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It is not too often that the venerable Grand Ole Opry cancels events. But it is also not too often that a massive winter storm barrels across multiple states, leaving snow, ice, frigid temperatures, and upended plans behind. Because of just such an impending storm, the Grand Ole Opry announced that it has canceled shows […]
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It’s a great time to be an Ashley McBryde fan lately. If you haven’t been keeping up with the “One Night Standards” singer as of late, at the very end of December, she’d share a tearful video to Instagram and tell fans that she had just got done listening to her upcoming album. She explained that even though she’s written and been through every stage of the process with these songs, it still felt brand new and had her in […]
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She met her now-husband at a barbecue in 2012. They shared the news of their private wedding ceremony on social media.
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If it sometimes feels like we’re on the cusp of a revival in America right now, I think that’s because we are. Overall church attendance may be holding steady, but younger folks like Millennials and Gen Z are having a resurgence in church attendance, outpacing older generations for the first time in decades. Last year marked a 21-year high in Bible sales in the United States, and even country music is wrestling more with faith. Cody Johnson just teamed up […]
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This news comes after months of backlash over Bad Bunny being named as the performer at the Super Bowl Halftime Show.
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Guy Hovis, best remembered for his singing on ‘The Lawrence Welk Show’ with then-wife Ralna English, has died at 84.
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Today, Carly Pearce released an incredibly emotional and introspective new song called “Church Girl,” which finds her contending with the fire and brimstone kind of preaching that you sometimes hear in church. I think many of us who have grown up in a religious household and in the church, especially in the south, probably know exactly what she’s talking about here. And speaking for myself, as a Christian who grew up going to church multiple days a week, it’s not uncommon […]
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