AMERICANA MUSIC

Pat McAfee isn’t going to hear the political backlash on Veterans Day. If you ask me, our military veterans deserve to be treated like royalty. The brave men and women that fight to protect this country are true, every day heroes. We treat them as such when they are deployed, but we could do a better job of celebrating and lifting them up when they return home from service. Though they deserve our praise every single day of the year, […]

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From all of us here at Whiskey Riff, we want to thank all the veterans and servicemen and servicewomen out there for their service. Veterans Day provides the perfect moment to sit down and reflect on all of the sacrifices of those who have served our great country in the past, and presently. We’re forever indebted to those who fight for our freedoms, and we should all give back and thank them any chance that we get. One person that […]

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Despite decades of making music together, Winterpills still feel like a well-kept secret. But if ever a song could capture the attention they so deserve, it’s “Wild,” the opening track off the band’s latest album This is How We Dance. The powerful anthem builds

Life and country music can be funny sometimes, turning what you think about certain things on their head. Tracing the lineage of the country standard “Travelin’ Soldier” is a good example.

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