Yearly Archives: 2026

The Atlanta Braves and country music are a match made in heaven. Some members of the Braves recently sat down with us on the Whiskey Riff Raff podcast. Third baseman Austin Riley, utility player Kyle Farmer, and the voice of the Braves Radio Network, Ben Ingram, all carved time out of their 162-game schedule to talk about their favorite country artists, how the locker room is full of “Ella Fellas,” and how the Atlanta Braves and country music have always […]

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Meet the man who pulled the trigger on the most surprising Dutton Ranch death yet. Continue reading…

Scary situation. A Michigan City, Indiana man who was in Tennessee for the annual Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival has gone missing from his Nashville Airbnb. According to a post from his mother, Trevor Lines was staying at an Airbnb in east Nashville with his friends ahead of the annual festival in Manchester, Tennessee. He was last seen in bed at the Airbnb around 6:00 AM on Thursday, June 11, but when his friends woke up between 9 and 9:30 […]

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Where to land on Midland might have just as much to do with your mood that day as it does with the band and the music itself. But it’s hard to stay mad about them when listening to their new album “Stages.”

The post Album Review – Midland’s “Stages” first appeared on Saving Country Music.

Ryan Preece doesn’t have sympathy for those in Music City complaining about noise when it comes to the Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway The NASCAR driver sat down with us on Whiskey Riff Raff to talk about his career, his famously aggressive racing strategy (and monster crashes), what it’s like to drive a stock car, the preparation that goes into it, and how he feels about his nicknames like “Flyin’ Ryan.” The driver of the No. 60 car also described how heartbroken […]

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You picked The Red Clay Strays – Grateful as your favorite new release for the week of June 5, 2026.

This week on Folk Alley, join Cindy Howes for a special show dedicated to dads of folk, roots, and Americana music and their musical kids. Hear songs from “the Father of Folk,” Woody Guthrie along with Arlo and Sarah Lee Guthrie, Greg Brown and daughters Pieta, Constie, and Zoe, Loudon Wainwright III and Rufus and Martha Wainwright, Johnny and Rosanne Cash, The Thompsons, Darrell and Wayne Scott, Bob and Jakob Dylan, The McCourys, Levon and Amy Helm, and much more.

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The author received six honorary degrees throughout her career, and several awards for her work throughout sci-fi and children’s literature.

The post Award-Winning Author of More Than 450 Books Dies at 87 appeared first on Wide Open Country.

The Brazoria County Sheriff’s Office says that the deputy involved in the fatal shooting of a Texas State University freshman has been fired. Deputy Kevin Tippit was relieved of duty for allegedly tracking an 18-year-old student to his home and fatally shooting him in the garage. Brazoria County Sheriff Bo Stallman announced the Houston-area deputy’s […]

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Phil Mickelson is one of the most recognizable champions in the professional golf world. With six major titles to his credit, he’s one of the game’s best. However, Mickelson’s reputation took a hit recently when he was reportedly accused by a female employee of The Farms Golf Club in Rancho Santa Fe, California, of “inappropriate […]

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