Daily Archives: April 12, 2026

Last month, Joshua Ray Walker announced the final chapter of his record trilogy, Ain’t Dead Yet, out everywhere on May 29th. Ain’t Dead Yet comes after his October 2025 concept album Stuff. This stellar record was the second part of this trilogy, following the light-and-air island-inspired melodies of Tropicana, and while it was an anthem for me last summer, it was penned during a very dark time in his life. The country music world was shaken to its core when Walker announced he was […]

The post Joshua Ray Walker Releases Steel-Soaked, Introspective New Single, “Chasing Sunsets” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

If you want something done in country music, give it to Lorrie Morgan to do. Things that on paper might have seemed impossible, Lorrie Morgan has pulled off, and multiple times now.

The post 40 Years Ago: The Love Story of Keith Whitley and Lorrie Morgan Begins first appeared on Saving Country Music.

‘Next thing ya know someone is making it look like an act of disrespect…not my intent at all,’ Dunn wrote. Continue reading…

Lacking clout when he entered the music business, John Mellencamp acquiesced to his manager’s insistence that he change his name to the ostensibly more marketable Johnny Cougar. But after he began to score hits, the Indiana native started billing himself as John Cougar Mellencamp before finally reverting to John Mellencamp. A new two-CD set called […]

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Consider this playlist like that cool older brother, crazy aunt or uncle, or papaw who turned you onto an entirely different world of music when you were younger that you otherwise would have never known about.

The post New Adds to Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist (#176) first appeared on Saving Country Music.

Charley Crockett’s Age of the Ram arrives as the third and final entry in his Sagebrush Trilogy, a 20-song, 45-minute set built around the outlaw figure Billy McLane and cut again with Shooter Jennings in Los Angeles. The obvious move would be to compare it to some other modern revivalist country record, but Crockett is aiming farther back than that. This album is trying to turn country songs into a movie, or maybe into the memory of one, and that points straight to Marty Robbins’ Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs, the 1959 western cornerstone that helped teach later songwriters how to make myth feel personal.

‘Tonight, what I lack in mobility I’m gonna make up in passion,’ Eric Church joked with the crowd as he explained the story behind his broken foot. Continue reading…

Sadie Robertson Huff is grateful for God and her knowledge of CPR after her infant daughter, Kit, suffered a terrifying choking incident at home. Continue reading…

The “Choosin’ Texas” singer revealed that a quick haircut before a show didn’t go how she planned — but it ended up sticking in a big way. Continue reading…

Jenn Grinels “Always on the Run” (photo by Rebecca Boyd) Jenn Grinels has a new album coming out later this year with some Western influences and beautiful West Coast imagery, Western Heart. Ahead of the album’s release, Jenn has just released a new song “Always on the Run” with thoughtful lines: “Cobblestones and empty streets, […]

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