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Garth Brooks cleaned up at the ACM Awards back in 1991. There probably wasn’t an artist that had a more dominant run in the 90s than Garth Brooks. Everything he touched turned to gold, and at the 26th annual Academy of Country Music Awards, that was on full display. The country star took home not one, not two, not three (I’ll skip the next couple numbers to save us some time), but six separate awards in one night. All of […]

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Charting for seven decades and counting. It’s no stretch to say that country music has had its fair share of royalty throughout its history. From early legends like Hank Williams Sr., Patsy Cline and Ernest Tubb, to Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard and George Jones, to George Strait, Alan Jackson and Garth Brooks (and dozens of other names in between), there’s no shortage of beloved icons that have made a massive impact on the genre. As time passes and country music […]

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He might not have been able to say it very often, but it’s very clear that he loved all four of his children very deeply. Dale Earnhardt Jr. had Hank Parker, a well-known professional bass fisherman and close friend of his father Dale Earnhardt, on a new episode of his podcast The Dale Jr. Download a little while back, and it’s full of great stories about Dale Sr. that you’ve probably never heard before, seeing as Hank was his best friend, there was a […]

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Kevin Morby Little Wide Open A couple of years ago, I came across a Victorian era phrase, “got the morbs.” The very Millenial-sounding descriptor was apparently a droll version of “down in the dumps” (usually, in a temporary sense). I think of this expression when I listen to Kevin Morby’s music, not simply for its […]

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