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Man Buried Under Avalanche in Washington Rescued After Being Trapped for Nearly Five Hours: “Beat Some Serious Odds”

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A report by the Utah Avalanche Center said that “after two hours [of being trapped], almost no one is alive” following an avalanche.

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Vincent Neil Emerson Honors Hard-Working Single Moms With New Single “Dark Horse”

Vincent Neil Emerson Honors Hard-Working Single Moms With New Single “Dark Horse”

Paying homage to the stages that raised him. Vincent Neil Emerson is taking a stroll down the early days of his career, pursuing a life on stage with his latest single “Dark Horse.” Vincent Neil Emerson is gearing up to drop a brand new record, Blue Stars, on April 17 via La Honda Records. Marking the Texas natives’ 4th studio project, fans are eager to hear what’s in store, as this is Emerson’s first LP since his 2023 release The Golden Crystal […]

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Joshua Ray Walker Releases Steel-Soaked, Introspective New Single, “Chasing Sunsets”

Joshua Ray Walker Releases Steel-Soaked, Introspective New Single, “Chasing Sunsets”

Last month, Joshua Ray Walker announced the final chapter of his record trilogy, Ain’t Dead Yet, out everywhere on May 29th. Ain’t Dead Yet comes after his October 2025 concept album Stuff. This stellar record was the second part of this trilogy, following the light-and-air island-inspired melodies of Tropicana, and while it was an anthem for me last summer, it was penned during a very dark time in his life. The country music world was shaken to its core when Walker announced he was […]

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When John Mellencamp Was Johnny Cougar, a Zappa/Beefheart Box, and More

Johnny CougarLacking clout when he entered the music business, John Mellencamp acquiesced to his manager’s insistence that he change his name to the ostensibly more marketable Johnny Cougar. But after he began to score hits, the Indiana native started billing himself as John Cougar Mellencamp before finally reverting to John Mellencamp. A new two-CD set called […]

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Now & Then: Charley Crockett’s Age of the Ram and the reach of Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs

Charley Crockett’s Age of the Ram arrives as the third and final entry in his Sagebrush Trilogy, a 20-song, 45-minute set built around the outlaw figure Billy McLane and cut again with Shooter Jennings in Los Angeles. The obvious move would be to compare it to some other modern revivalist country record, but Crockett is aiming farther back than that. This album is trying to turn country songs into a movie, or maybe into the memory of one, and that points straight to Marty Robbins’ Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs, the 1959 western cornerstone that helped teach later songwriters how to make myth feel personal.