Category Archives: Americana News

There’s no one we trust more to wrap-up this wild and wacky year than Lizzie No, Kaïa Kater, Olivia Ellen Lloyd, and Isa Burke. Be a girl’s girl and join us for a sensational exchange between pals. Also: Cindy & Lizzie reflect on Basic Folk’s top and favorite episodes, Cayamo, Alaska, the pod’s new baby, and dogs (including the corn cob incident).

The post Basic Folk podcast, eps. 333 – 2025 Wrap-Up Round Table with Kaïa Kater, Olivia Ellen Lloyd, and Isa Burke appeared first on Folk Alley.

Morgan Wallen just hit a historic sales milestone, surpassing country legends like Garth Brooks and Carrie Underwood. Here’s the full Top 10 breakdown. Continue reading…

A new court filing alleges that Riley donated eggs used by John Travolta and Kelly Preston. Continue reading…

A Christmas miracle. In 2021, Cody Johnson released his A Cody Johnson Christmas album, which is a ten-song project full of holiday classics, including Merle Haggard’s “If We Make It Through December.” Of coures, that song was first released in 1973 as the lead single for Merle’s Christmas album Merle Haggard’s Christmas Present, but it later became the the title track to a non-Christmas album four months later, as well. A solo write by Merle, the song became one of the […]

The post Cody Johnson Recalls Not Being Able To Afford Ramen Noodles One Christmas, & Then A Miracle Happened first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

Trisha Yearwood, 61, and Garth Brooks, 63, just hit the 20-year mark in their marriage. Wed on December 10, 2005, the country music power couple has released hit after hit and they are still going strong. Yearwood recently spoke candidly abut the role that Brooks plays in her songwriting. He probably isn’t perched beside her […]

The post Trisha Yearwood’s Big Confidence Booster for Her Songwriting Is Husband Garth Brooks appeared first on Wide Open Country.

Vi Wickam, a Colorado-based champion fiddler and singer, had the top album (The Thanksgiving Album) and the second most-played song  (“Another Fine Day for Thanksgiving”) on folk radio during November 2025, while Delaware-based singer-songwriter John Flynn’s “The Victim Tree” was the top song and Archie Fisher, a notable Scottish folk singer and songwriter who died on Nov. 1 — one week after turning 86, was the month’s most-played artist. So say charts compiled by Folk Alliance International based on radio playlists submitted to FOLKDJ-L, an electronic discussion group for DJs and others interested in folk-based music on the radio.

[Click on he headline to view the top albums, songs, and artists charts that are posted monthly with permission.]

Tom Brady must have been sick to his stomach watching a 44-year-old Philip Rivers live out his un-retirement dream this past weekend. In case you missed it, Tom Brady says he could come back and play in the NFL. It’s almost as if Tom yearns to stay in the news cycle, and floats out rumors about ending his retirement every so often. Just imagine a now 48-year-old Tom Brady running out of the tunnel and out onto the field. Crazy […]

The post Surprise, Surprise… 48-Year-Old Tom Brady Thinks He Could Come Out Of Retirement: “Give Me A Month” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

Gonna be able to take a well-deserved vacation now. In this age of social media we see plenty of instances where a wannabe-influencer tries to harass somebody for their politics or for simply doing their job, and oftentimes it ends up backfiring because TikTokers live in a bubble where they think everybody agrees with them and that they can do whatever they want for content. And that’s exactly what happened here. A Chico, California woman named Michelea Ponce recently decided […]

The post The Internet Has Raised $150k For An Elderly Target Employee Who Was Harassed By A TikToker For Wearing A Charlie Kirk Shirt first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

Back in September, Bunnie Xo announced that her memoir would be coming out in February 2026. Titled Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic, her husband, Jelly Roll, was excited to share the news with fans.  “Bunnie’s book is completely stripped down. It’s authentic, it’s real, it’s Bunnie unstripped in every way she can be,” he said. “If you know […]

The post “My B-Hole Is So Puckered”: Jelly Roll’s Wife Bunnie Xo Has Huge News, and Nothing Has Scared Her More appeared first on Wide Open Country.

I’m starting to think that Billy Bob Thornton might actually be the most interesting man in the world. He’s one of the biggest names in all of Hollywood in the modern day, but before everybody knew his name, he was a nobody just trying to make it. It’s hard to imagine that the actor known for such classic films as Sling Blade and Bad Santa was struggling to get his foot in the door, but like many that chase the dream of becoming […]

The post After An Injury Derailed His MLB Career, ‘Landman’ Star Billy Bob Thornton Worked As A Roadie For Johnny Paycheck first appeared on Whiskey Riff.