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What kind of monster would vandalize Dolly’s star? Though it still doesn’t feel real exactly a week later, the queen of country music, Dolly Parton, passed away on August 25th at 80 years old in Nashville, Tennessee. The “Jolene” singer had been dealing with undisclosed health issues for the last year or so, and she previously shared that she was having issues with severe kidney stones. Aside from that, she understandably didn’t share more, though clearly there were more serious […]

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Getting more out of touch by the day. Despite country radio clearly losing the decades-long stranglehold it has had on consumers for the better part of the past five or so years, there’s no denying that it’s still a major player in terms of introducing casual listeners to music as it has throughout history. As pretty much everyone knows by now, however, country radio has taken what can only be described as a nose-dive in quality over the years. Gone […]

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The Bassmaster Elite Series capped off its 2026 season with an incredible smallmouth showdown on the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario (or is it Lake America these days?) this past weekend, and it was one for the books. When you get the best anglers in the world on one of the greatest smallmouth fisheries on the planet, you know massive bags of brown bass are going straight to the scales, and AOY winner Trey McKinney put together the largest […]

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Don’t make him get down from his tree. Luke Bryan has no doubt heard a lot of the chatter surrounding his song “Fish Hunt Golf Drink,” which dropped back in May. The song was roundly criticized for relying on “bro-country” stereotypes and featuring ridiculously simplistic list-style lyrics that many accused of coming from AI: “If I could have it my own way, you know Let me tell you how every day would go Wake up, coffee Camo, climb tree Wet […]

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