Author: Casey Nyman

Fair warning: this audition is the ultimate tear-jerker. Last night, February 16, marked the fourth episode of American Idol’s 24th season. With Luke Bryan, season 4 winner, Carrie Underwood, and Lionel Richie seated at the judges’ table, the show continued its opening round of auditions, taped at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. In an incredibly heavy-hitting start to the night, one young artist completely stole the night with his tribute performance to his late mother. 22-year-old Mor Ilderton, who you may recognize from Michael Bublé’s team on The Voice season 26, returned to television with a heartfelt audition on American…

No matter how you feel about his songs, there’s no denying that Jelly Roll has one of the most remarkable origin stories in country music. Jelly Roll, formally known as Jason DeFord, is extremely vocal about his rise from a criminal background, addiction, and personal struggles to his most recent, insane weight loss transformation. Honorably, his years spent in and out of prison miraculously flourished into a massive career, blending his love for rap and country music. He often credits his success to his faith and the unwavering support of his wife, Bunny, both of which played a major role…

Somewhere out there in the world is a young man who can never listen to Eric Church’s “Springsteen” again, knowing that his parents conceived him to it. At Church’s show at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto last Thursday, February 12, he led into a performance at his pre-show meet & greet with a wild story he learned from a fan. Church told the crowd about how he got wrapped up in a conversation with a rambling gentleman that went from confusing to straight shocking, “You never really see yourself get old, you see everybody else get old. But not you…

Here’s your daily dose of goose bumps. Almost 15 years ago, country legend Ronnie Dunn blessed everyone’s ears with an incredible rendition of Sugarland’s 2007 platinum hit, “Stay.” Performed during CBS’s special tribute, ACM Girls Night Out, the thirty-time ACM award winner and one-half of Brooks & Dunn, absolutely crushed this powerful serenade in honor of his good friend, Jennifer Nettles.  The track is actually Sugarland’s only hit that was solo-written by Nettles, and safe to say the emotional song remains a classic. After being introduced by Sugarland partner, Kristian Bush, Dunn starts his tribute by telling Nettles, “Jennifer, my…

Apparently, Garth Brooks is on a whole other level of gift-giving. A recently resurfaced clip from August 2025 shows country music superstar Luke Combs chatting with Dax Shepard on his podcast, Armchair Expert, where he shared an insane story about the “Thunder Rolls” singer. Combs described his experience of the ultimate delayed gratification following one of his performances at the Ryman Auditorium.  Combs was one of the performers at Brooks’ Songwriters Hall of Fame induction, and in lieu, where the “Hurricane” singer was invited to perform a rendition of one of Garth’s self-written tracks. Apparently, that single song performance paid…

Wyatt Flores took his show to the land down under and even a step further by joining the crowd at his latest concert. The 24-year-old Oklahoma native is currently out on the Australian leg of his Bucking Bin Chicken Tour with five shows in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney, Thirroul, and Brisbane. At his Thursday night, February 12, show in Perth, Western Australia, Flores got intimate with his Aussie fans, climbing into the crowd to sing, “Oh Susannah.” Flores posted a clip from the night to his TikTok page with the caption, “I didn’t travel over 10,000 miles to just stand on…