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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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