AMERICANA MUSIC

Doesn’t get better than this. It’s safe to say that it’s been a pretty busy month for Ole 60. Since bursting onto the scene with the viral, now certified gold track, “Smoke & a Light,” in 2023, the Kentucky band has been making waves in the alt. country scene for the better part of two years. And after what felt like years of anticipation, they finally released their debut album, Smokestack Town, just a few weeks ago on October 3rd. […]

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It has been 8 years since the devastating attack on Route 91 Harvest Festival took the lives of 60 country music fans, and left hundreds more wounded on October 1, 2017. A 64-year-old man named Stephen Paddock, who we never really ever learned ANYTHING about, rained down over 1,000 rounds on the Las Vegas country music crowd from his 32nd-floor suites in the Mandalay Bay hotel. Headliner Jason Aldean was on stage at the time, and his bass player later […]

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There’s a lot of bad out there in this world, but at least we have country music. And there was tons of good country music released in September. That should come as no surprise, though, because the country music scene has been on quite the hot streak for some time now. In just the past few weeks there have been so many amazing album and single releases, and it’s impossible for us at Whiskey Riff to cover every single song […]

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Back in 2007 I reached out to Chris Stamey about mixing my band’s newest album. He’d worked with some of the artists we loved (Mayflies USA, Whiskeytown) and we wanted to see what he could do for us. He arranged to have Al Perkins play pedal steel on a few songs, got the album into […]