Daily Archives: July 15, 2026

That’s a stacked class. The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame announced their 2026 class of nominees, with 12 songwriters across two categories being selected for consideration. In the Songwriter/Artists category, the nominees are Taylor Swift, Miranda Lambert, Chris Stapleton and Phil Vassar. While Swift has shifted towards pop after getting her start in country music back in 2006, she’s won three Grammy awards for her songwriting, including awards for Best Country Song for “White Horse” in 2010 and “Mean” in […]

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There was already a whole lot of work that needed to be done to the Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway in the first place. A fire that broke out below the grandstands in June just added another item to the to-do list. There’s been rumblings of NASCAR returning to the Nashville Fairground ever since former Mayor John Cooper announced in 2021 that the city had signed a letter of intent with Bristol Motor Speedway to renovate the Fairgrounds Speedway, which hasn’t hosted […]

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Moose paddles versus elk antlers… which one wins? There’s always a heavyweight fight going on somewhere out in nature. Most of the time, we humans aren’t lucky enough to see them play out. But on occasion, one of us (usually someone who is a wildlife photographer for a living) is in the right place at the right time, and gets the showdown on video for the rest of us to enjoy. The footage below of an elk and a moose […]

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Tyler Childers will see what kind of magic he can come up with behind the mixing board as it’s been announced he will be producing the new album from folk powerhouse Willi Carlisle to be called “The Universal Bubba.”

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Security footage revealed a nurse technician allegedly kidnapping a newborn from the hospital where she worked. 

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Famed singer R. Kelly had one of the biggest falls from grace in the history of Hollywood. The “I Believe I Can Fly” singer was once regarded as one of the top R&B singers in the world and earned millions from his certified platinum records. Unfortunately, the heralded singer has faced unsettling allegations since the […]

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“You can see that she’s hurting,” Brianna Chickenfry says of Bunnie Xo. Continue reading…

The actress, who starred on the sitcom “Growing Pains” in the early 1990s, shared that she was almost forcibly taken from the show’s set.

The post Beloved Child Star Shares Moment She Was Almost Kidnapped From Set appeared first on Wide Open Country.

Lainey Wilson has a heart of pure gold. The country music singer whose career has caught fire lately is kind and compassionate, and she shows it. Wilson loves to get real with her fans. If one of them is hurting, she hurts, too. Earlier this year, Netflix dropped a revealing documentary about the red-hot artist […]

The post Heartbreaking Moment Lainey Wilson Prays With a Young Fan appeared first on Wide Open Country.

You don’t see that every day… If you’ve spent any amount of time fishing in the Great Lakes region, or the larger Midwest area, you know that walleye are an absolute staple of the northern fisherman. Living in Wisconsin, I catch them pretty regularly, but it’s actually the hard-water season where I do most of my walleye fishing. It’s just tough to beat a day out on the ice, a few cold beverages, and a limit of walleye in the […]

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