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The Grand Ole Opry needed this man on their stage.

Texas singer-songwriter Josh Weathers made his official Grand Ole Opry debut on August 15, 2026, at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee. He celebrated the milestone after 23 long years of performing across bar, patio, and festival stages.

I mean the Opry was missing this kind of talent and it was deserved to have Josh stand in that legendary circle. His talent needs to be seen, heard and known. He didn’t win the 2025 Entertainer of the Year award at the Texas Country Music Awards for nothing.

Josh showed up at the Opry and gave them a cover of Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You”, which was absolutely flawless.

 TasteofCountry.com ranked the Top 13 country songs of the year so far. Here they are:

1. “Choosin’ Texas”,  Ella Langley

2. “Be Her”,  Ella Langley

3. “Be by You”,  Luke Combs

4. “I Can’t Love You Anymore”,  Ella Langley and Morgan Wallen

5. “Say So”,  Dan + Shay

6. “Dry Spell”,  Kacey Musgraves

7. “Phone, Keys, Wallet”,  Lainey Wilson and John Mayer

8. “If I Don’t Leave, I’m Gonna Stay”,  Carly Pearce featuring Riley Green

9. “Boston”, Stella Lefty

10. “McArthur”,  Hardy, Eric Church, Morgan Wallen, and Tim McGraw

11. “Keeps Me Sane”,  Tyler Nance

12. “Killin’ Me”,  Parker McCollum

13. “All My Exes”,  Lauren Alaina featuring Chase Matthew

It’s been awhile since we’ve had a great country music parody from this man…but he’s finally delivered a damn good one.

If you haven’t heard of Cledus T. Judd before, he’s been called the “Weird Al” Yankovic of country music. And he just released a parody of Ella Langley’s “Be Her” called “Meet Her”.

He said, “Dearest Ella. My friend Shania Twain changed my life in 1997 when my video ‘If Shania Was Mine’ was one of the most successful videos in CMT history.  

Now 29 years later and over 40 music videos later I’m asking ya to help change my life again so I can catch up on my child support and pay off my vet bill from 2003…love you and hope to ‘Meet You’ someday soon.”

This man has literally gone through at least five of his nine lives.

God definitely loves this man. Especially considering everything he’s been through. Colt Ford is now on the mend after he and his crew were involved in a tour bus crash on their way to a show in Germany. He broke his shoulder and had to be rescued through a broken windshield.

He posted a photo of the scene and said, “the crew is a little banged up but we’re all still here.”

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Colt’s team posted an update saying he had shoulder surgery and is focusing on his recovery now.

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This is the perfect example of how to ruin your night and waste good money.

Zach Bryan wrapped up his two-night “With Heaven On Tour” stop in Denver. He rolled into Denver on Thursday for night one on August 13th and night two was obviously Friday August 14th, at Empower Field at Mile High. Ryan Bingham and The Texas Gentlemen and Fey Fili were there as well to help open the shows too.

Luckily the weather wasn’t terrible for it…but some drunks definitely showed up for the show. @hopejunkey got a first hand look at one drunk who couldn’t even last long enough to actually see Zach Bryan onstage.

The video they posted from Thursday night’s show was priceless. And the caption reads, “it’s a bad day when you puke all over your friends, pass out and need EMTs to carry you out before Zach Bryan even begins!!!”

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Mutts have a friend in Miranda Lambert and Tractor Supply.

Miranda’s MuttNation Foundation teamed up with Tractor Supply and donated $255,000 to animal shelters all over the country. The program is called Mutts Across America. One shelter in every state was chosen, plus one “Wildcard” pick, in recognition of her album of the same name. They each received a $5,000 grant, and didn’t find out about it until it was announced.

Miranda said, “Mutts Across America is one of my favorite MuttNation programs because it lets us show our appreciation to the people at the shelters who are doing the hard work every day.

And to make it even more special, the grants are always a surprise, there’s no way to apply or be nominated.”

MuttNation has been partnering with Tractor Supply since 2021.

In other Miranda news, she surprised fans at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota by bringing out Gretchen Wilson and Lainey Wilson for a few songs like “Redneck Woman” and “Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home)”.

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Gulf Coast Jam finally announced all of their 2027 headliners y’all. 

Your headliners for 2027 are Bailey Zimmerman, Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean and Zach Top. It’s the best four day party on any beach in America and it all happens in Panama City Beach, Florida at Frank Brown Park.

Festival tickets, hotel packages, merch and more are all on-sale now! Be sure to join the party June 3rd through th 6th of 2027 for the Gulf Coast’s most anticipated party of the year. 

Tickets and more can all be found at gulfcoastjam.com.

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Riley Green really is just like us.

The man shops on Facebook Marketplace, too. He actually bought a Gibson J-45 acoustic guitar from someone, and instead of sending someone to get the guitar for…Riley met up with the seller himself in person. 

There’s no word how much he paid, but I’m sure it wasn’t cheap. Especially considering how they can go from $1,800 to $2,900.

The seller posted a photo with Riley and said, “when I [saw] that he was the one buying it, well it made selling it feel a little better! I hope to see him throwing them pic marks on her soon…Thanks Duckman!”

Welcome to Friday August 14, 2026!

We have some new country music for your playlist. Please do your part and visit your neighborhood liquor store to pair your whiskey with this new country music as well. Its country music is meant to be enjoyed.

PROJECTS (Albums & EPs):

Ashley Cooke – “Ashley Cooke”
Wade Forester – “The Aftermath”
Mason Ramsey – “Outlaw in Love”
Just Jayne – “JAYNE”
Clayton Nile Young – “Eddy”

SINGLES:

Hudson Westbrook – “Made You Look”

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Gavin Adcock – “Shoes”
Emily Ann Roberts – “Laundry”
Mack Geiger – “Pouring”
Jordan Davis – “Mess”
Zach John King (feat. Brooks & Dunn) – “Way To Go”

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Elizabeth Nichols – “Does Your Girlfriend Know We Kissed?”
Kaitlin Butts – “I Wanna Be Bad”
Mitchell Tenpenny – “Speed of Light Wedding Version”
Mae Estes (ft. Shenandoah) – “Moon Over Georgia”

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Josh Ross – “Kicked Out Of Bars”
Little Big Town ft. Kelsea Ballerini – “Closing Time”
Blake Shelton – “Let Him In Anyway (Stripped Version)”
Tayler Holder – “Halfway to Hell”
Keller Cox feat. The Castellows – “Way Things Work”
Chase Wright – “Rest Of My Life”
Drayton Farley, OurVinyl – “Dreamer”
Jenna Paulette – “Maggie’s Song”
Dom Ellis – “The Way I Know”
Cole Phillips – “Uno Dos Equis”
Liam St. John – “Man I Drew”
The War and Treaty – “It’ll Hurt Me More Than It’ll Hurt You”
Paige Fish – “Why It’s Me”
Palmer Anthony – “Two Twice”
Drew Baldridge – “A Man Don’t”

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Red Oaks – “You Ain’t One”
Kaleb Sanders – “Go Easy”
Shane Profitt – “Last Name”
Meels – “Lonely USA”
Bellah Mae – “Gimme Gimme”
Alex Hall – “Keep Livin’”
Landon Parker – “Up On”
JP Kennedy – “Memory Don’t Miss”
Sheyna Gee – “Andy’s Song”

I’m sure after a haircut, a bath and you take their cigarettes away from them…they’ll look good as new.

I also really feel this video. Especially the older I get. I just feel this in my soul. As I’m really starting to not give away a shit about a lot of things that don’t concern me.