Monthly Archives: June 2026

Gotta respect this guy for following through on his fantasy football league rules. When you sign up for your fantasy football league full of friends or family (or both), you aren’t trying to win. You are just trying to not lose. Especially if there’s a last place punishment involved. It typically doesn’t get more humiliating than having one random draft day in August determine the next couple months of your life, and ultimately lead you to a last place punishment. We’ve […]

The post Fantasy Football Loser Forced To Trick-Or-Treat In The Dead Of Summer As Last Place Punishment first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

The Red Clay Strays are American music. And most any genre should want to claim them as their own since they immediately up the ante of talent among it. The Red Clay Strays also can’t be anything but themselves.

The post Album Review – The Red Clay Strays – “Grateful” first appeared on Saving Country Music.

Willie Nelson Is Still Going Strong It’s remarkable that Willie Nelson is still making records nearly three decades after the age when the average American retires. But it’s even more remarkable that those LPs contain some of the best work of his long career. Dream Chaser, which arrived shortly after Nelson’s 93rd birthday, is his […]

The post Music Reviews: Willie Nelson’s ‘Dream Chaser,’ Gene Parsons’s ‘Kindling and Beyond,’ and More appeared first on Americana Highways.

Did Morgan Wallen and his team call off his Pittsburgh concert a little too early? There’s nothing worse than a day-of cancellation. I don’t know about you, but I’ve been to a handful of concerts and sporting events that have been called off due to weather. There’s no other way to put it… it sucks to have a date circled on the calendar for months, and then have Mother Nature get in the way of it. Yesterday, country music fans […]

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‘Riley’ isn’t a traditional family name for the singer, but it does come from a sweet family story. Continue reading…

Joshua Ray Walker’s Ain’t Dead Yet and Steve Earle’s Guitar Town are separated by four decades, but they share a clear country music lineage. Both albums come from writers who use traditional country materials without treating them as fixed rules. Earle’s 1986 debut helped open space for country records with tougher guitars, direct storytelling, and singer-songwriter focus. Walker’s new album works in that same lane, with a more personal and present-tense sense of survival.

‘I did the best I could with the information I had in that moment,’ Wallen explained. Continue reading…

Check out this week’s best new folk, roots, and Americana music in rotation at Folk Alley!

The post Hear the Best New Folk Music with Fresh Cuts Friday appeared first on Folk Alley.

A final report has closed the investigation into wrestling legend’s death, addressing questions that lingered in the months after his passing. Continue reading…

The Sherpa revealed that he “didn’t think he would be alive.” He was found by garbage collectors as he crawled down Mount Everest.

The post Sherpa Missing on Mount Everest for Six Days Miraculously Survives, Crawls To Camp appeared first on Wide Open Country.