We’re COUNTRY and NEVER apologize for it
Emails, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook is where all scams…I mean good relationships start.
A woman called into the “Big D and Bubba” show to say she met Riley Greenon Facebook. They started texting 20 to 30 times a day, and she’s convinced they’ll be getting married soon.
She swears she’s actually talked to him on the phone, too, so it’s obviously not a scam. Especially since he hasn’t asked for money…yet.
Luke Combs is having another fantastic week in his career.
He has officially become the first artist in history to replace themselves at #1 at US Country Radio (Mediabase) on two separate occasions. The first time he replaced himself on the chart was back in 2024 with Riley Green when “Different ‘Round Here” was replaced with “Where The Wild Things Are”.
Now here we are in 2026 and “Days Like These” was just replaced with his now 22nd number one song, “Sleepless In A Hotel Room”. Additionally, the latter two songs make him the first to achieve self-replacement with solo songs.
Congrats to Luke on this nice chart achievement and I’m sure the suites in Nashville who thought he wouldn’t make in country music feel like jackasses by now.
Tucker Wetmore got a very nice surprise onstage.
His mom came out to surprise him onstage in London with the Academy of Country Music award for the “New Male Artist of the Year”. Tucker’s mom instructed him to watch a video message from Thomas Rhett broke the news, and then his mom handed him the actual award.
Tucker will also perform at the 2026 ACM Awards. And he joins a full list of performers that includes Thomas Rhett, Kane Brown, Ella Langley, Dan + Shay, Blake Shelton, and Zach Top.
The ACM Awards stream live May 17th at 8:00 p.m. Eastern on Prime Video with Shania Twain as your host.
It was a big in Dallas, Texas on May 1, 2026.
Kid Rock launched his 2026 “Freedom 250 Tour” on May 1st in Dallas, Texas, with a high-profile opening featuring a video cameo from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and military helicopters. Which makes since considering it’s a tour honoring our country’s 250 years.
The tour celebrates the 250th anniversary of American independence with shows spanning from April to June 2026. Openers include Brantley Gilbert, Jon Pardi, Parker McCollum and Big & Rich on select dates.
Now with the of the news of country music outlaw legend, David Allan Coe, passing away Kid posted a note on his socials talking about their friendship.
He said…
“Spent so much time with David over the years, touring, writing songs and just hanging out. I knew a side of Dave most people never got to see. He was such a deep thinker, kind and about as real as an outlaw can get!
He did not give a damn what anyone thought of him. Always loved this cover of ‘Only God Knows Why’ he recorded on his tour bus. He also wrote ‘Single Father’ for me after spending a few days at my Ortonville, MI home years ago with me and my son. I still have piles of songs I need to dig up we wrote together.”
Then on Friday night in Dallas, Texas, Kid paid tribute to DAC on night one of his “Freedom 250 Tour” with a cover of “You Never Even Called Me By My Name”. It would’ve been David Allan Coe approved too.
Post Malone announced some upsetting touring news. Especially if you were planning on going to his “Big Ass Stadium Tour Part 2”.
Posty said that he was pushing back the start of his “Big Ass Stadium Tour” with Jelly Roll by canceling the first month of shows including the opening night in El Paso, Texas as well as stops at McLane Stadium in Waco, Texas…Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana…Protective Stadium in Birmingham, Alabama…Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida…and Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Mississippi have all been canceled.
In a statement posted to his Instagram, Posty said that he would be pushing back the start of the tour to focus on finishing up his upcoming double album…
“Looking at the upcoming schedule after stagecoach, I came to the realization that what we were trying to do, and what’s possible, isn’t really lining up.
Truth is, I promised y’all beautiful people new music, and I don’t have the time to finish it before tour starts. We ain’t ready for tour just yet, so I’m making the decision to push the tour back about 3 weeks to get this music done.
That being said, I’m so sorry to the folks who were planning on coming to the few canceled shows. I was looking forward to going nuts with y’all.
Now he’s also been teasing his upcoming double album, “The Eternal Buzz”, over the past month including a post last month revealing that the album would feature a whopping 40 songs.
But I feel this news of the cancellation of the first month of this tour is more of a reflection of the low amount of ticket sales that happened. That’s just my opinion though.
Is Kenny Chesney’s 2005 hit “Beer In Mexico” part of your tailgate party playlist? It is for mine.
Apparently after all this time, Kenny finally revealed that it’s not actually a party song and it’s a bit more introspective than you’d think. So, he’s basically ruining everyone tailgate party by bringing this little fact up now.
He wrote it when he was 36, while out in Cabo San Lucas for Sammy Hagar’s birthday. Kenny said he was looking at how all his friends and people he worked with had families and kids, except for him.
Kenny said, “here I was, 36 years old, I didn’t have that stuff. But I was building what I was building. And so I went, ‘Wow, maybe I don’t have to figure it all out right now. It’s okay enough to be playing Sammy’s birthday party.’
I don’t have to figure out all of that stuff out at the moment. I thank Sammy for that. That was a true, autobiographical song.”
Kacey Musgraves says there very much was beef with Miranda Lambert and it was “grass-fed, grade A.” But that’s over. And now they have a song together called “Horses and Divorces”.
It’s on Kacey’s new album, “Middle of Nowhere”, that’s out now and its country music song title is simply perfect for a country music song too. I’m actually in love with it too.
Kacey said, “I love this song, because it’s not coming from some contrived place in a writing room. We’ve come together after years of really, honestly, not being friends.
I had this idea one day when I saw her on Instagram, riding one of her horses, and I thought, ‘Well, I guess we have two things in common: horses and divorces.’ And I was like, ‘Wait, that’s a song.'”
Kacey also announced the album’s tour, which kicks off in August. She said, “I want it to feel like you’re walking into an outdoor rodeo when you’re in there. There’s gonna be dirt, and it’ll feel like you’re outside.”
She has a few album release shows next week in Texas too. She’ll be joined by the Mariachi Brothers, after previously advocating for their release when they were detained by ICE, because Kacey still thinks she’s an activist at times.
The detention of the Mariachi Brothers was obviously a mistake (a wrong place and time situation) or they interfered in an arrest. And interference in any investigation (as in someone being arrested) can get you arrested…because it’s against the law to interfere with law enforcement’s active work. It’s a nice gesture to have to have them play a show with her…but it’s slightly ridiculous to me.
Carrie Underwood and her family live on a 400-acre farm in Tennessee, and she says if they had to, they could be self-sustaining.
She said, “I love growing things. I love our chickens. We have cows…sheep…donkeys…horses. I have my garden, and it’s a great way to connect with the earth. That’s my contribution to the family.”
In another interview, Carrie also said when she’s not working, her home life is the polar opposite. She said, “I’m like, covered in dirt [and] poop…cleaning up after everybody and barefoot in the kitchen. But I wouldn’t have it any other way.”
Ella Langley has been gaining popularity lately, so much so, that she’s surpassed every country artist on Spotify with one exception…Morgan Wallen.
She now has 27.6 million monthly listeners, while Morgan has 34.3 million. It was only in February that she ranked #6 with 19.9 million. Now she’s at #2.
As for the rest of the Top 5…Luke Combs is at #3 with 27.3 million, followed by Zach Bryan in fourth with 26.3 million, and Chris Stapleton at #5 with 25.9 million.
On a related note, Ella was asked how she feels about her recent success on the red carpet for Billboard’s Women in Music event.
David Allan Coe fans have new material to look forward to.
His longtime manager, Ken Madson, owns it and wants to release it on September 6th, which would’ve been David’s 87th birthday. The album was recorded in 2017, but got shelved by record executives (because they are assholes like that). Madson says the final album will include previously unreleased songs and new material.
He also shared that Johnny Knoxville began a documentary about David back in 2018, but it’s up to Johnny if it’ll ever be released. And hopefully he does.