Secretly, I think every average person’s dream is walking up onto a karaoke stage and just absolutely blowing the crowd away. Certainly, for professional singers, this goal is a bit more attainable, hence why country legend Vince Gill had some fun with his impromptu karaoke performance. This story is a pretty old tale from Vince Gill, but it recently recirculated on TikTok, and it is GOLD. User @jamielynnbolen captured the retelling of the story he told to his audience at a recent show in Macon, Georgia, this past Friday, June 20. Gill starts off by setting the scene, explaining that…
Author: Casey Nyman
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.
Before the world knew Megan Moroney as the country princess she is today, the Georgia native was simply the star singer of her college sorority. It’s true that everyone has to start somewhere, and for Moroney, that claim to fame was at Kappa Delta at the University of Georgia. While pursuing a degree in accounting, the 2020 Bulldog graduate got her title as a “country singer” thanks to a push from her sorority sisters to perform in a pageant. In a 2022 interview with Bobby Bones on his podcast, BobbyCast, Moroney detailed her humble start to her career as the face…
It was only a matter of time before Zach Top joined the Hot Country Knights on Dierks Bentley’s tour, and the result was every bit as iconic as expected. If you’ve never been to a Dierks Bentley concert or haven’t followed his side projects, the Hot Country Knights is Bentley’s country parody band, launched in 2015. Decked out in outrageous ’80s fashion and wild hairdos, the band delivers a mix of classic country throwbacks and hilarious parodies, many of which appear on their 2020 album, The K is Silent. Bentley fully commits to the bit, performing in character as Douglas…
Riley Green’s grandmother may be the ultimate prankster, but it sounds like she won’t be winning the “Wing Woman of the Year” title. For context, in a recent interview clip from the radio show Katie & Company, every woman’s country man crush, Riley Green, shared a hilarious story about his grandma, Lola Jean. He tells host Katie Neal that while playing at a smaller show a few years back in Huntsville, Alabama, his grandma was in the audience, and in typical concert fashion, someone threw a bra up on the stage. Green jokingly picked up the undergarment on stage and…
This past weekend was essentially the ultimate country music crossover event of the century, with all of the genre’s biggest stars gathering in Nashville for one of the most iconic festival events of the year. Practically every major artist was in town for the 2025 CMA Fest, making for countless opportunities to collaborate, and there were certainly some standout performances. On Saturday night, June 7, the third day of the festival, two country music powerhouses came together for a performance that perfectly captured the spirit of what country music is all about. Wynonna Judd, legendary 1980s icon and one-half of…
Long before the internet-breaking, shaved-head Morgan Wallen era, there was the questionable dangly earring-wearing Wallen era. In case you’ve also erased it from your memory, Wallen used to sport a gold cross earring out of his left ear around 2019, in between the transition of his 2018 debut album If I Know Me and the 2021 release of Dangerous. It was an iconic look at the time for the Tennessee native who was rocking a grungier country-rock look alongside the classic mullet. There are certainly some mixed opinions about the style, but one thing is for sure: the story behind…