We’re COUNTRY and NEVER apologize for it
The year of this woman continues on.
Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” tops Luminate’s midyear songs report with 629,000 streams. Her song “Be Her” also made the Top 10 list at #4 with about 312,000 streams.
And speaking of Ella, she’s also the face of American Eagle’s summer campaign.
She posted a photo in Daisy Dukes and said, “this July, AE is supporting Bring Change to Mind to help create more connected, supportive, and stigma-free conversations around mental health.”
I’m not sure if this tour is actually ever leaving Indianapolis, but there are more tour dates for this man’s tour now.
Garth Brooks added two more dates to his “Blame It All On My Roots Arena Tour” stop in Indianapolis. His new opening night will now be August 20th, and he added a matinee performance on August 23rd.
There has to be additional cities for his tour coming soon right? Of course we’ll keep you posted when we hear of more zip codes hosting Garth and his tour.
Jelly Roll and Bunnie Xo recently finalized their divorce.
A source says Jelly is, “a very generous person by nature and wanted to make sure the divorce was handled fairly and respectfully.”
They also added that he’s doing really well and he’s been focused on his tour and his health. They said, “he’s in a good place.”
The exact details aren’t known, but they’ll be splitting things like homes, cars, and an aircraft. Jelly will also make a one-time, confidential lump-sum payment to Bunnie, so there will be no alimony claims made in court.
Their agreement also includes a provision to prohibit them from trash-talking the other.
Bunnie seems to be doing well, too. On Friday she posted a tour of her new home.
This man has had a hell of a career.
Darius Rucker is considering retiring in two years. He said, “I’ve been really looking at it, and I played 110 shows last year, I mean, what am I doing?”
He says he still likes making music, but he enjoys being home. And as I get older…home is a beautiful place to be too. So, I completely understand what he’s saying.
He also said , “I’m looking at maybe doing a tour, one more big Hootie thing.”
Megan Moroney was recently asked what the best form of revenge on an ex is. Her answer subtly referenced her song “Who Hurt You?”, which fans suspect is about a fling with Riley Green.
Megan said, “the best form of revenge? I would say probably having an arena full of people scream ‘God, I hate how gross you are,’ every single night. Louder than I could ever imagine.”
She also added that her exes haven’t necessarily tried to get back with her right away after hearing a song about them, but they have months later. And she said, “I honestly think my exes like when I write songs about them. I think it makes them feel special, unfortunately.”
Wishing your friends a happy birthday is the absolute right thing to do.
Lee Brice and Ernest are friends worth having too. Jamey Johnson celebrated his 51st birthday on Tuesday July 14th. So, the Grand Ole Opry helped celebrate his birthday with some friends where him and Tracy Lawrence even performed the TikTok version of “Time Marches On”. Which was definitely needed.
Jamey also got some birthday messages. Lee and Ernest had a birthday that was pure comedy gold. And they went the “disappointing, supportive, sarcastic and flirty” approach video message.
If you’re a real Dolly Parton fan and you’re made of money, this house for rent is for you.
Dolly’s former West Hollywood home is available for rent for a whopping $12,000 a month. It has two bedrooms and two bathrooms and was built in 1923. I mean it seems a little small for $12,000 a month…but I haven’t seen in person. So, there is that.
Dolly actually purchased the home in 2007 and listed it in 2014, although according to records, the home didn’t change hands to a new owner until 2023. And now it could be yours…well for rent.
Riley Green sat down on Theo Von’s podcast recently and was asked about his dating life, or lack thereof.
He said, “I feel like you know better than that because you’re in that world too. It’s really not that easy to meet a girl when you’re doing what we’re doing. I mean, I’m not going to meet a girl at a show, I’m confined to the back on a bus.
And I’m not going to meet a girl on Instagram. And when you get to a place where people are, it gets tough to know who you’re meeting for what.”
Riley also said he’s always surprised which songs fans fights to. He pointed out how, “it’s always girls. There’s been a couple videos I’ve seen of people getting in a fight during ‘I Wish Grandpas Never Died’. Or I’ve got a song called ‘Jesus Saves’.”
While we’re here, he set the record straight on how he did not have anything to do with Luke Bryan’s “Fish Hunt Golf Drink”.
Baseball, country music and merchandise go pretty well together.
Four country music stars are being honored by their hometown Minor League Baseball team with an exclusive merchandise collection called “Local Legends“. I wish I was important enough to have my minor league baseball team honor me…but this isn’t about me.
Koe Wetzel with the Round Rock Express, Kane Brown teamed up with the Chattanooga Lookouts, Brantley Gilbert with the Gwinnett Stripers…and Kameron Marlowe with the Kannapolis Cannon Ballers.
This a was an hilarious moment at the Grand Ole Opry.
Tracy Lawrence and Jamey Johnson graced the Grand Ole Opry stage on Jamey’s 51st birthday on Tuesday July 14, 2026. And they celebrated by performing the viral parody version of Tracy’s classic 1996 hit “Time Marches On”.
Instead of singing the poignant, generation-spanning lyrics of the original #1 hit, Tracy and Jamey broke out what fans call the “TikTok Version” or the “420-friendly version” of the song. Basically everyone in the song is smoking dope.
It’s classic parody on TikTok…I’m happy it saw the light of day on the Opry stage.