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The post This Week In Americana: November 21, 2025 appeared first on Americana Music Association.

There’s just something about a good, country music Christmas song. We’ve now reached the part of the calendar where it’s very much acceptable to listen to Christmas music. I hope you didn’t dive in too early, because you may have negatively affected your health if you did so (that’s according to a psychologist, not me). Christmas music has a way of getting us all in the jolly, holiday spirit. Listening to songs that sing about Santa, reindeer, gifts under the […]

The post Country Music Fans Sound Off On Their Favorite Country Christmas Songs first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

The kind of story you really can’t make up. Craig Morgan spent 17 years in the Army and Army Reserve, serving the 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions as an E-6 Staff Sergeant and Fire Support Specialist. Since then, he’s remained an avid supporter of all of our service members. In 2023, Morgan publicly announced he would continue his service to our nation by re-enlisting in the US Army Reserve, where he’ll be assigned to Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, as […]

The post Craig Morgan Recalls Eating A Live Chicken While Military Training With Korean Rangers: “We Were All Taking Chews Out Of It” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

The actor and his fiancée were both arrested in Oregon after a disturbing incident involving an alleged attempted assault. Continue reading…

The country legend had the perfect response when Savannah Guthrie accidentally called Rex Linn her husband. Continue reading…

Country singers care about their fans. They always want to put on a great show and give 100 percent. But what Chris Young did the other day went way above and beyond. Young was set to perform in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin on Saturday, November 29. That was also when a significant winter storm hit the […]

The post Country Singer Refunds Concert Ticket Price Due to Winter Storm – Whether Fans Showed or Not – And Skips His Own Paycheck: “Class Act” appeared first on Wide Open Country.

Music icon, national treasure, and Grammy award-nominee Mavis Staples’ new album, Sad And Beautiful World, is out now. Produced by Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee), Sad And Beautiful World shows that love is a choice and a force all its own.

“If you believe those AI death stories one more time…” If there has been one singular thing that has dominated headlines across nearly each and every industry, profession and walks of life in the year 2025, it was undoubtedly AI. Like many things, at first, it seemed like nothing more than a harmless form of new technology, with many early AI models simply creating low quality images on various different platforms and potentially being able to pump out a solid, […]

The post Willie Nelson Sounds Off On The Endless Amount Of AI Slop About Him: “If You Believe Those Death Stories One More Time…” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

How did Frank Sinatra feel about singing “My Way” again and again? Or how does Lee Greenwood feel about doing his cherished hit “God Bless the USA” all the time? Dolly Parton has countless blockbuster songs that she often sings for fans. She has done so for many years. Does she ever get tired of […]

The post Dolly Parton Dishes About Singing Her Most Popular Hits Repeatedly for Years: “It Gives You a Feeling of Great Pride” appeared first on Wide Open Country.

Billy Bob Thornton said that Tim McGraw and his wife Faith Hill would be great additions to the cast of ‘Landman’.

The post Billy Bob Thornton Wants Faith Hill and Tim McGraw on ‘Landman’ appeared first on Wide Open Country.