Author: Casey Nyman

Expanding on the growing list of upcoming beachside festivals, Country Calling is returning for its third year. Set on the coast of Ocean City, Maryland, the two-day event offers fans the perfect early autumn weekend from October 2-3. After two successful back-to-back annual shows, the festival announced its highly anticipated lineup today at noon, with Lainey Wilson, Chris Stapleton, Rascal Flatts, Dierks Bentley, and Miranda Lambert set to headline for 2026. Also joining the numerous stages on the sandy grounds is none other than Russell Dickerson, Travis Tritt, Mitchell Tenpenny, Wyatt Flores, Brothers Osborne, Dustin Lynch, Charley Crockett, Clay Walker,…

Continuing his numerous on and off-stage collaborations with country music singers, Brandon Lake joined Jordan Davis last night for a stripped-down performance of his 2021 hit, “Buy Dirt.” Filling into Luke Bryan’s boots on this number one radio chart topper, Lake started out the performance at a recent stop on his King Of Hearts tour, revealing that it was one of his and his wife’s favorite songs around the time they bought their home in the Lowcountry, South Carolina. He told the crowd of fans at the Spectrum Center in Charlotte, “Brittany and I, we moved out of the city,…

This year’s 68th Annual Grammy Awards featured some big additions to the country sector of the show, including the newly added category for Best Traditional Country Album and the renaming of the Best Contemporary Country Album category. Given that Washington-native Zach Top is pretty much the figurehead for this new era classic country revival, many joked that the category was pretty much made for him. As the boom of subgenres continues to explode and country music continues to dominate the music world across the board, it makes sense that the Recording Academy felt the need to differentiate between sounds so…

With the western world taking over the media, as Taylor Sheridan dominates television and country music leads the charts, there’s been a growing crossover between actors and singers stepping into each other’s worlds. It all started with artists like Lainey Wilson, Tim McGraw, and Ryan Bingham branching out into acting on Yellowstone, with the show also continuously highlighting mainly red dirt artists on the series soundtrack. Then the show’s fan favorite, “Kayce Dutton” aka Luke Grimes, continued his dabble in music with his latest debut album release on April 3, Redbird. And of course, Grimes’ writing relationship with Riley Green…

With success comes some inevitable negative press, and Ella Langley is now starting to catch that heat. Beyond the extensive number of confused outsiders who’ve rolled their eyes at the fact that Langley continues to dominate the Billboard charts with “Choosin’ Texas” leading into its seventh week at number one, she’s now receiving hate from people mainly outside of the country music world ahead of her upcoming Friday, April 24, release. The dominating female voice will join reigning star Morgan Wallen on their soon-to-be hit, “I Can’t Love You Anymore.” This past Saturday, Langley opened for Wallen for her first…

Happy 4/20 to Willie Nelson, who will surely be partaking in the holiday to its full extent. Arguably, his all-time greatest celebration of the unofficial cannabis themed day took place 14 years ago, just a few miles from his hometown of Abbott, Texas, in the state capital, Austin, where a bronze eight-foot-tall statue was erected of the country music legend. Keeping on theme, Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell hopped on the stage at exactly 4:20 to unveil the figure featuring Nelson perched with his classic braids holding a guitar. With a couple of thousand hometown fans watching and a pungent marijuana…