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“It Was A Really Easy Song To Write” – Riley Green Says His Duet With Ella Langley, “Don’t Mind If I Do,” Was Supposed To Be A “Beer Drinking Song”

Riley Green's duet with Ella Langley "Don't Mind If I Do," which was the title track to Riley's 2024 third studio album, is on pace to go number one sometime in the very near future, and it's actually ...
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Billy Strings Puts On A Bluegrass Clinic For NPR Tiny Desk Debut

The NPR Tiny Desk Concert we actually needed. This week, bluegrass wizard himself, Billy Strings, finally got his chance to do his own episode of NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series Part of making it big ...
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Michigan Football Posts On Social Media For First Time Since Sherrone Moore Fiasco, & They Probably Should’ve Turned The Comments Off

Michigan football's official social media page has finally broken its completely understandable silence. It's been a rough week for the Wolverines (to say the least) thanks to their former head coach ...
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Jason Aldean Says “Help You Remember,” A Powerful Song About Dementia, Wasn’t Written To Be A Hit: “It’s A Different Kind Of Song”

Sometimes the biggest hits of an artist's careers are the songs that help their fans the most. Dementia is a truly horrible disease, and the Aldean family is pulling back the curtain on their lives to ...
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Nashville Songwriter Headlines 15-Minute Congressional Christmas Party That Featured Spray Cheese & Mountain Dew

That's my kind of Christmas party. I know this is going to make me sound like Scrooge, but I don't really get all that into Christmas. I hate snow, I hate Christmas music, and exchanging gifts is more ...
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Jim Carrey Went Through CIA Torture Training With The Founder Of SEAL Team Six To Endure Makeup For ‘The Grinch’

Christmas is often viewed as the “most wonderful time of the year,” though when Jim Carrey shot How The Grinch Stole Christmas in 2000, it was far from a wonderful time. The better way to describe the ...
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Jelly Roll Knows He’s Not Perfect, But The Gospel Is Still Being Presented: “Live A Little Too Secular To Be Releasing Christian Music”

Jelly Roll is admitting he has some shortcomings when it comes to his relationship with God. That's something a lot of Christians can relate to, am I right? Christianity calls for all Christ followers ...
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TCU Is Now Offering A Land Management Class Inspired By Taylor Sheridan’s Hit Show, ‘Landman’

Love Landman? Then chances are you'd like this new class that's being offered by Texas Christian University. It only makes sense that the private, religiously-affiliated university in Fort Worth, ...
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Toby Keith Picks Up A Pair Of Posthumous RIAA Certifications, “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue” Goes 5x Platinum

More hardware for the Big Dog Daddy. It's hard to believe we're approaching two years since the tragic passing of the late, great Toby Keith. As we all know, the Oklahoma native passed away on ...
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“I Have Lost That In A Casino” – Michael Jordan Wasn’t Worried About The Cost Of Signing A NASCAR Driver To 23XI Racing

And NASCAR really thought they were going to beat this guy in court? A settlement was reached yesterday in the bombshell lawsuit against NASCAR that was filed last year by two of its race teams, 23XI ...
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Merle Haggard Almost Didn’t Record His First #1 Hit Single, “The Fugitive” – “Made A Whole New Day For Me”

One of The Hag's most autobiographical songs, indeed. On this date in 1966, Merle Haggard released his single "The Fugitive," which would later be know as "I'm a Lonesome Fugitive," which ultimately ...
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Daughter Of Man Who Inspired Willie Nelson’s Christmas Classic “Pretty Paper” Says He Never Knew The Song Was About Him: “He Crawled Around On His Hands And Knees, But ...

An all-time classic. By and large, most Christmas music these days is pretty commercial, and honestly, forgettable. But over the years, legends like Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson have put out some ...