Author Archives: Echoes Staff

Her reign at the top continues. This week, Ella Langley is back on top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart with her smash hit “Choosin’ Texas,” following the release of her highly-anticipated sophomore studio album Dandelion, which she put out on Friday. She’s been on a generational run, as the song first topped the all-genre chart on February 9th, when it first hit #1 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 chart, and she became the first woman ever to triple […]

The post Ella Langley Extends Her Record As “Choosin’ Texas” Spends Sixth Week At The Top Of Billboard Hot 100 first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

Speaking for all of us here. It’s hard to understate just how much of a force to be reckoned with Chris Stapleton has become throughout his music career. With 12 Grammys, 19 CMA Awards, 11 ACM Awards and a plethora of other hardware from the likes of Billboard, the Americana Music Association, ASCAP and more, the Kentucky native is arguably the biggest and most critically-acclaimed country artist this century. Among all the awards, back in January, Stapleton made history as […]

The post Jamey Johnson Says He Was “Blown Away” Hearing Chris Stapleton Sing For The First Time — “Ain’t Much Not To Love About Him” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

This is a performance you don’t want to miss. Two of the most underrated artists in the country music genre right now (in my humble opinion) are Stephen Wilson Jr. and Lukas Nelson. Both are incredibly talented and boast their own, uncommon sounds. Sure, Lukas Nelson’s might share similarities with the sound of his legendary father – Willie Nelson. But at the end of the day, there aren’t two artists out there that are more  than Stephen Wilson Jr. and […]

The post Lukas Nelson & Stephen Wilson Jr. Deliver Captivating Acoustic Performance Of “Disappearing Light” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

The continued frustration with how the media and journalists decidedly outside of the country music fold decide to commentate on the genre irresponsibly was sent into the stratosphere recently by an article in NY Mag.

The post NY Mag’s New Awful, No Good, Very Bad Country Music Article/Infographic first appeared on Saving Country Music.

There’s something about a Sunday afternoon in a Dallas backyard — relaxed, sunny, the kind of day that makes you remember why you love live music in the first place. We’ve been lucky enough to host some incredible artists at the Sunday Social over the years, and if we’re being honest, we’ve gotten a little […]

Bay Simpson Rising I first met Bay Simpson in Muscle Shoals in 2021 at Wishbone Studios when I was producing a track with Damon Johnson of Brother Cane/Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Bay was hanging out at the studio. It’s always fun hanging around Wishbone because Billy Lawson has an “open door” policy and you never know […]

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Todd Albright photo by Agnes Fischer Todd Albright on Recording Blues for Dexter Linwood and Launching Misfortune Records On April 17th, 2026, country blues artist Todd Albright, known for his 12-string guitar work, will be releasing the album Blues for Dexter Linwood via his own newly launched label, Misfortune Records. The album was produced by […]

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The only thing more surprising than who’s on this list of country songs that have reached one billion Spotify streams, is who isn’t. Continue reading…

Curtis Salgado – Legacy Rewind: Live In ’25 If you were to see a head-on collision between Eric Burdon & Boz Scaggs on stage, you’d have a debris field that would start to sound like Eugene, Oregon’s Curtis Salgado swept up on “Wiggle Outta This,” a fiery blues piece with backup singers Keashaun Jones, Margaret […]

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The band has got us waiting all day for Sunday night baseball. Continue reading…