Yearly Archives: 2026

Brad Paisley is doing his part to stop an AI data center from being built right next to the Nashville Zoo. It was just a few days ago that the Nashville Zoo took to social media to ask the community and the world at large for help. According to them, developers are trying to build a 69,000 square foot data center in an area directly adjacent to their property. Though the people planning to build it say it will have […]

The post Brad Paisley Takes Stand Against AI Data Center Being Built Next To Nashville Zoo: “It Doesn’t Belong There” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

CMA Fest has always been the place to go for fans hoping to meet their favorite country stars one-on-one. Continue reading…

Not cool at all. Every year, millions of people visit Yellowstone National Park to take in the beautiful sights and the majestic creatures that call the area home. Annually, it’s one of the most visited national parks in the country (Great Smoky Mountains National Park actually holds the No. 1 spot on the most visited list), and more often than not, we get videos of tourists doing stupid things while they are there. Normally, that comes in the form of […]

The post Tourist Illegally Harasses Pack Of Grizzly Bears With Drone In Yellowstone National Park first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

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 […]

The post Morgan Wallen Responds To Fans Who Are Outraged His Pittsburgh Concert Was Canceled Prematurely first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

‘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…