Album Review – Joshua Ray Walker’s “Ain’t Dead Yet”
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He sings with a deftness nearing the angelic, allowing the stories and messages to stir the inner soul of his captive audience, resulting in an experience difficult to impossible to achieve through other conventional means.
On Sam Barber’s AMA Win for Breakthrough Country Artist
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Sam Barber is a contemporary folk artist who has so much more similar in style, sound and approach to the music of Zach Bryan, Noah Kahan, Joshua Slone, and other massive artists that have been dominating charts.
Mountain Grass Unit Enjoy Big Moments at 2026 DelFest
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In 2024, the young men had played the festival’s indoor music hall as virtual unknowns from Birmingham, Alabama. In 2025, they played the secondary stage to great acclaim, and the momentum has been building ever since.
Go See Joshua Ray Walker on His “Ain’t Dead Yet” Tour
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He’s Joshua Ray Walker, and only someone uninitiated with the kind of power he can conjure on stage would pass up an opportunity to see him live, especially after we almost lost him in 2023 due to Cancer.
Songwriter Susan Gibson Goes Viral Revealing 3rd Verse to Chicks Hit
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It’s not just the songs of Susan Gibson, but the soul of her that makes her such an important songwriting oracle, and frankly, one more of the universe should know about. She went viral sharing the 3rd verse to “Wide Open Space” by The Chicks.
Album Review – Whey Jennings – “Baptized By Fire”
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On this album, he’s not trying to be Waylon or anyone else. He’s just trying to be Whey. And if that’s not good enough for a modern world that often settles for the trendy or familiar, that’s not going to sway Whey.
George Strait, Randy Travis Get New Spaces Dedicated to Them
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It’s always cool to see country music legends being commemorated, and their legacies solidified in tangible ways that you know will be around for years to come and make sure they don’t go forgotten. Such is the case from Randy Travis and George Strait.
Sierra Ferrell Regales DelFest in Performance with Water Tower
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Always a Delfest favorite, Grammy winner Sierra Ferrell and California string band Water Tower brought joyful vibes and old-timey music to an enormous crowd trying to stay dry.
Why The New Kacey Musgraves Wal-Mart Partnership Feels … Off Brand
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Getting too hot and bothered about country performers launching brands or doing endorsement deals is a fool’s errand. But there is something specific about Wal-Mart that makes the whole thing feel, well … icky.
New Southern Rock Supergroup ‘Toy Factory Project’ Slays at DelFest
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The set was one for the ages as they say, and it amply demonstrated that bluegrass, country and Southern rock really aren’t that far apart musically, and in the end are all worth celebrating and enjoying.
Jake Worthington Announces Hiatus “To Work On Myself”
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Though the statement didn’t give many more details or mention cancelled shows, it appears Worthington has cleared his tour calendar until late July as he takes a step back.
40 Years Ago: George Jones, Merle Haggard Bail Johnny PayCheck Out of Jail
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Johnny PayCheck ended up in the pokey after an altercation. Who showed up with $50,000 to bail him out of the Hillsboro Jail on May 22nd, 1986? George Jones and Merle Haggard.
Album Review – William Alexander’s “Along The Boundary Line”
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The story of William Alexander doesn’t start way out West. It starts way Down Under. But the wide open spaces, the horse, tack, fence, and cattle, the hard-working days and the lonesome nights are no different no matter the hemisphere.