Monthly Archives: October 2026

Just like his life, Todd Snider’s posthumous album, My Second Rodeo, is unfinished. Snider died last November, at 59, amid a bewildering and troubling series of events, while working on an album he believed would break new musical ground. He had recorded his vocals and guitar, leaving longtime collaborators Joe Bisirri and Robbie Crowell to […]

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“Nightmares” is a tender and small song on a turbulent record.

“I watched the monsters drag their shadows / across the street and straight inside,” Brody Price sings over fingerpicked guitar. It’s the midway point of the Dallas songwriter’s new Leaf Miner’

Keb’ Mo’ has been making music for more than half a century, but he still approaches a song like there is something left to figure out. Born and raised in Compton, California, he came up listening to Nat King Cole, church singers and the blues guitarists who traced the music backward toward Mississippi. At 21, […]

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Between them, these five women have dozens of CMA wins and plenty of major nominations, yet none has taken home the association’s top honor. Continue reading…

The Red Clay Strays aren’t afraid to praise God with their music, but they also recognize that not everyone in their fanbase is religious. The band from Mobile, Alabama consisting of Drew Nix (electric guitar, vocals, harmonica), Zach Rishel (electric guitar), Andrew Bishop (bass), John Hall (drums), Sevans Henderson (keys), and frontman Brandon Coleman have quite the impressive catalogue already. Their most recent addition is Grateful, which was released earlier this year and… yes, explored their collectiveness gratefulness. It also […]

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Luke Grimes had no idea how long he’d get to keep playing Kayce Dutton when the ‘Yellowstone’ spinoff began, and he wasn’t expecting much. Continue reading…

More drama has come to the front door of the White House ahead of November’s midterm elections.  United States President Donald Trump is once again facing legal action. Per a Wednesday (October 7) report from the Associated Press, President Trump is being sued by the Democratic National Committee. Court documents obtained by the outlet showed that the Dems are suing […]

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Publix announced that it is closing some of its stores in three states – one in South Carolina, four in Florida, and two in Georgia, per The New York Post. {New Publix stores will also open. One is slated for Alabama, two in Kentucky, one in Florida, and two in North Carolina.] What partially motivated […]

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When NBC sent Tony Dungy packing, they said it was a youthful revamp of Football Night In America. The former NFL head coach and analyst for over 17 years thinks something else had to do with it. The two time Super Bowl winner (one as a coach, one as a player) was a staple of NBC’s Sunday Night Football across two decades. He brought expertise and experience to the network’s pregame, halftime and postgame shows… that is until NBC wanted […]

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