You’ve probably seen mugshots where criminals are wearing shirts with ironic messages…but this is new.
Troopers in Arizona arrested a driver on Saturday, who was driving under the influence. They originally pulled them over for a broken tail-light, but when they talked to the driver, there were obvious signs of impairment.
The driver even admitted to drinking and driving. And a blood alcohol test later showed they were 2.5 times the legal limit.
The crazy part was the driver had a vanity license plate on the front of their vehicle that said: “ARRIVE ALIVE”…and around the edges, it said, “Drive sober: Or get pulled over.”
The police said, “a lesson in practice what you preach.”
This song is the equivalent of winning a billion dollar lottery jackpot for this woman.
Ella Langley has also admitted to being shocked by the success of “Choosin’ Texas”. It’s the gift that really keeps on giving as it is now longest running non-holiday #1 by any female artist in the HOT 100’s chart history (17 weeks).
That surreal feeling of knowing how big of hit that song really is will more than likely only increase now. Especially since Matthew McConaughey has laid down a cover of his own of the crossover hit with the help of Jimmy Fallon on“The Tonight Show”.
We have another tour stop on Garth’s arena tour now.
Garth Brooksannounced that the fourth city on his upcoming arena tour is Washington D.C. He’ll be at the Capital One Arena on September 18th and 19th. And based on the trend with previous cities, it wouldn’t be surprising if two additional shows are added in D.C.
The “Blame It All On My Roots Arena Tour” 2026 are as follows…
Indianapolis, IN (Gainbridge Fieldhouse): August 20, 21, 22, and 23, 2026
Denver, CO (Ball Arena): September 4, 5, and 6, 2026
Rosemont/Chicago, IL (Allstate Arena): September 10, 11, and 12, 2026
Luke was teasing how some big news was coming on his socials and he’s officially delivered that new y’all.
Luke Combs is going busy again in 2027 doing a lot of traveling in short amount of time. He’s going be hitting up 1 continents, 2 countries and doing 12 concerts for his 2027 “My Kinda Saturday Night Tour”.
Treaty Oak Revival, Avery Anna, Shanondoah and Wyatt McCubbin will be joining on Luke on this tour as well. And hopefully their passports are up to date.
Be sure to join/login to Luke fan club at lukecombs.com to receive pre-sale info and the info has also been emailed to members already.
Tickets will go on sale to the public next Friday, August 21st at 10 AM local venue time. I really feel some people are going to go into more financial debt for this too.
Love her or hate her…the has made a name for herself in music. And she’s got the broken records and massive fan base to prove that.
I’m not really surprised by this news. Taylor Swift was announced on Monday (8/11/26) as the youngest inductee ever to join the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. She’s 36. She was chosen for the Contemporary Songwriter/Artists category.
She beat out fellow nominees Miranda Lambert, Chris Stapleton, and Phil Vassar. I mean she’s pretty well known too.
Taylor said, “from the time I started writing songs as a child, I fixated on Nashville as the perfect place to be. I wanted to learn with and from the best and get to immerse myself in a community of storytellers…
And thankfully Nashville turned out to be exactly what I’d dreamed of. A town that validated and prioritized hard work, determination and imagination…to be honored by this city I love so much is a beautiful thing, and I’m very grateful.”
Side note. Taylor also recently became the youngest woman ever inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Other inductees to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame include Lyle Lovett, Bruce Channel, Shawn Camp, and Lee Thomas Miller. The induction ceremony will take place sometime this fall.
Alan Jackson was honored at his last show in Nashville with a plaque by the Recording Industry Association of America for selling over 85.5 million units in the U.S. throughout his career. He’s now one of the Top 10 highest-selling country artists.
He also picked up 28 new RIAA certifications, including “Chattahoochee” going 5x Platinum, “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere” going 5x Platinum, and “Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)” going Platinum.
His plaque is on display at the Alan Jackson Museum in Nashville as well.
Country albums deserve an album release show…and especially at a legendary honky tonk like this.
Miranda Lambert’s next album, “Crisco”, is due out October 2nd. And she announced that she’ll have an album release show a few days later on October 6th at the world’s largest honkey tonk, Billy Bob’s Texas.
She said, “when I was in the studio recording ‘Crisco’, I kept picturing the rhinestone saddle at Billy Bob’s. It’s the perfect visual for a country disco album: honky tonk with some extra rhinestones and shine.
I’ve played some of my all-time favorite shows at Billy Bob’s and it felt like the best place to bring everyone together to have fun and live out the feeling of this album.”
Sugarland is back. They announced a tour to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their second album, “Enjoy the Ride”. The “Ride Or Die Tour” will officially kick off October 21, 2026 in St. Augustine, FL and wraps up on November 21, 2026, in Dallas, Texas.
That album’s lead single “Want To” became Sugarland’s first #1 hit on the U.S. country charts, and their single, “Settlin’”, made it to the top of the charts, too.
Jennifer Nettles said, “Enjoy the Ride was such a turning point album. It literally catapulted us onto the ride of our lives with a carnival of hits and a life on the Road.”
Pre-sale starts Wednesday, August 12, 2026, at 10:00 AM local time. Then the general public ticket sales will open on Friday, August 14, 2026, at 10:00 AM local time. And for everything Sugarland, please visit sugarlandmusic.com.
I think it’s safe to say that Tracy Lawrence isn’t a fan California and their affordability.
He was guest on the “Like a Farmer” podcast gave his thoughts and said it is very “disheartening” to visit California as of now. He pointed out he really doesn’t like traveling to California despite having to go there for work.
He said, “I had a couple of different acting coaches that I was working with over the last several years, but I mean, it’s just weird going out to California these days, man. It’s kind of … it’s disheartening. I just kind of pulled the plug on all that stuff,”
Tracy said the state itself is absolutely beautiful, there are things about California that he just doesn’t like. For one, it’s very expensive to go there between gas and taxes. And those are just facts.
He went to say, “we’re looking at $10 a gallon just for gas. You know, take a fleet of buses out there and your trucks and stuff and go out there and try to promote shows. They tax you to death. The economy out there is awful. You know, the price of fuel and just getting in and out of the states are tremendous.”
He also added that performing in the state is “basically as difficult and as unprofitable as going into Canada right now.”
Tracy tries to keep politics away from music. Like he’s said before…music “is supposed to be one of those things that brings us all together.” The problem is…is that politics affects us all in some way. And taxes is to death is going fix our problems.
Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” is now the longest running non-holiday #1 by any female artist in the HOT 100’s chart history (17 weeks). It now surpasses Boyz II Men and Mariah Carey’s 1995 hit, “One Sweet Day”.
“Choosin’ Texas” now holds three of the four longest running #1 hits in the Hot 100 history, as “Choosin’ Texas” earns a 17th week at #1 too.
If this song of Ella’s can get to 23 weeks on the Billboard HOT 100 and beat Mariah’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You”, it will beat every record of a song that made it to the top of that chart and sat there for multiple weeks. I believe it can happen too.
Ella Langley's "Choosin’ Texas" is now the longest running non-holiday #1 by any female artist in Hot 100 history (17 weeks).
