Author: Casey Nyman

Casey, a New Jersey native raised on country music, graduated from the University of Delaware with a BA in Communication and minors in Journalism, English, and Advertising. With her strong journalism background and love for country music, it was only natural for her to start writing about the genre she’s most passionate about. She has been contributing to Country Chord since January 2025. A quick look at her playlists reveals favorites like Megan Moroney, Ella Langley, ERNEST, Zach Top, and Turnpike Troubadours.

I’m not sure when it happened, but Darius Rucker has slowly become my favorite person on Twitter (and yes, I’m still refusing to call it X). The 60-year-old country music icon is oddly active on the platform, constantly responding to fans, posting his golf swings, and sharing all of his updates on his favorite sports teams. Earlier this month, he snapped back at a fan who tried to call him out for claiming “Wagon Wheel” as his own song after he reposted a clip of the US Men’s soccer team singing the track at a post-game karaoke celebration, saying: “Put…

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To put it plainly, six-time CMA Award winner and three-time Grammy nominee Luke Combs is just a down-to-earth guy at the heart of it all. If two things stay consistent whether he’s at home or on a stage in front of thousands of fans, he dresses pretty low-key with his classic button-down and jeans (minus maybe a high-end watch), and he’s a proud Appalachian State University fan. However, apparently repping his college pride with his atypical laid-back attire wasn’t necessarily up to par for his Wednesday morning putt yesterday at the Old Course. After wrapping up two back-to-back massive shows…

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Bailey Zimmerman was unable to finish his recent show at the Delaware State Fair this past Sunday, July 26, and for once it wasn’t because of a hangover, a pending arrest warrant, or the weather. The “Rock and a Hard Place” singer took the stage at the Harrington, Delaware, fairgrounds for just a few songs before a widespread power outage booted Zimmerman off the stage after just three songs, leaving thousands of fans in attendance upset and on the hunt for some sort of remedy. Kudos to the Illinois-born singer who waited outside with fans while crews attempted to get…

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Noah Kahan is now the latest artist to call out the White House for using his song in a social media post. I know, what a crazy statement. Who would’ve thought twenty years ago that celebrities would be feuding with the White House over their music choices? For those out of the loop, the actual White House has its very own verified social media accounts, yielding over 7 million followers on TikTok and a whopping 12.3 million followers on Instagram. And I gotta hand it to them; as the years have passed throughout Donald Trump’s presidency, they’ve really stepped up…

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Over the years, I’ve heard some WILD responses to the classic debate: “Who is your Mount Rushmore of country music?” While the question can totally be subjective, at the end of the day, if we’re building an atypical Mount Rushmore, you’ve gotta go with the founding fathers of country music; the singers who’ve become building blocks of the genre. If you’re looking for a prime example of what I mean, Tracy Lawrence can show you his forearm with his four headstone figures plastered in ink across him. Yes, the multi-platinum, eight-number-one hit maker quite literally has his “Mount Rushmore of…

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Cody Johnson, the king of covers, has returned with another doozy. Currently enjoying a short two-week break before returning to the stage on August 7 in Oklahoma City on his Live ’26 tour, the ACM Entertainer of the Year shared yet another absolutely stunning cover to his social media today, and it’s only a matter of time before the comments flood with people asking for it to be recorded. Johnson’s no stranger to the track in question, Don Williams’ 1982 hit, “If Hollywood Don’t Need You (Honey I Still I Do).” Just a couple of years back, he performed it…

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