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.

Why hire a wedding band when your best friend is Megan Moroney? Just a few days before heading out on her anticipated Cloud 9 tour, the Georgia native took on an even more important role this past weekend as the maid of honor in her best friend, Natalie King’s, wedding. Moroney, one of this year’s ACM Entertainer of the Year nominees, skipped out on the Sunday, May 17 show in Las Vegas to join the bride-to-be at her destination wedding in Turks and Caicos. The two bulldogs who met at the University of Georgia over ten years ago finally got…

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The tragic loss of two-time NASCAR Cup Series championship winner Kyle Busch has left many shocked at his seemingly rapid and young passing. Yesterday afternoon, the news broke that the 41-year-old father of two had suddenly passed away after being hospitalized with ongoing treatment of a “severe illness.” In a joint statement from NASCAR, Richard Childress Racing, and the Busch family, they announced, “Our entire NASCAR family is heartbroken by the loss of Kyle Busch. A future Hall of Famer, Kyle was a rare talent, one who comes along once in a generation. He was fierce, he was passionate, he…

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Over the past few years in country music, beyond Ella Langley’s smash hit, “Choosin’ Texas,” there hasn’t been a more unescapable earworm than Zach Top’s “I Never Lie.” Pretty much everyone and their mother was so addicted to the track that Top has us all walking around our houses belting, “I sleep like a babbyyyy” nonstop. As his second single from his debut studio album, Cold Beer & Country Music, the viral track is now his most-streamed song, with nearly 330 million streams on Spotify alone. From the intro’s first few guitar notes, it’s one of those songs that gets the…

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FINALLY, Spotify is answering the prayers of every scorned super fan who has lost a battle or two in the treacherous Ticketmaster wars. Long gone are the days when you could camp out overnight in long lines and get into fistfights to show your dedication to snagging tickets to your favorite artists’ shows. Even with the recently announced fall of Ticketmaster and Live Nation’s monopoly after their loss in the federal antitrust case, by no means is it any easier yet to beat out the overload of fans vying for tickets in a queue online, on top of every scalper…

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After another year of what many fans are calling a “massive snub” for Morgan Wallen at last Sunday’s (May 17) ACM Awards, the country music superstar has finally seemingly fired his own shots back at the show. This year’s 61st ceremony saw a lack of attendance from country music’s biggest artists across the board, including four of the Entertainer of the Year nominees: Jelly Roll, Luke Combs, Megan Moroney, and, to no one’s surprise, Morgan Wallen. Another no-show, given he had two stops on his Country! Country! Country! Tour over the weekend, was fellow friend and collaborator, Hardy. The “Wait…

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Seven years ago, the same girl who took home a record-breaking seven awards on Sunday night, May 17, at the ACM awards, was once recording cover videos from her bedroom. Repping an Alabama t-shirt, classic 2019 eyebrows, and blonde highlighted side-parted hair that many would claim “doesn’t even look like her,” the then 20-year-old Ella Langley was just on the brink of kickstarting her career. When Langley says that she truly has been singing all her life, she’s not kidding, with her social media still holding a whole archive of her early days of covers. Marking the same year Langley…

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