Things are heating up for Riley Green on Marshals. He made his acting debut on the Yellowstone spinoff Marshals a couple weeks ago as Garrett, a former Navy SEAL teammate of Kayce Dutton’s (Luke Grimes), who arrives at the ranch, unexpectedly, hoping to lean on his friends Kayce Dutton (Luke Grimes) and Cal (Logan Marshall-Green) to help “put the demons of his past to rest.” Grimes said in a previous interview that it wasn’t just as easy as snapping his fingers to get Riley a part on the show… Grimes had the idea to get Riley on during a songwriting session when Riley talked about his interest in acting, and Grimes says a lightbulb went off and he wanted to get him on Marshals. He spoke with showrunner Spencer Hudnut, who loved the idea, so they wrote Riley in since this was all happening as the show was starting to come together. But Luke revealed during a radio interview with Bev Rainey for her Country Nights Live with Bev Rainey radio show that network executives didn’t know “how big of a deal Riley is” in the country music world, so they made him audition just like any other actor, and told them they “should not” make him do that, but they weren’t having it: “Oh yeah, that all happened because we were writing a song here. He had talked about wanting to act, and I’m sitting there, and that’s when ‘Marshals’ was starting to come together, and a little lightbulb sort of went off, I was like, ‘Hey, you should you should be in my show.’ Brought it up to my showrunner now, and he loved the idea as a fan of Riley’s. We wrote him a part, and we thought, great, this is happening. And then the network, they don’t really know the country music scene, so they weren’t super aware of how big of a deal Riley is. So they made him audition, which I thought was really funny. I was like, ‘You guys, you should not make this guy do this.’” Riley has since said he’s glad he had to audition, and he’s done a pretty solid job not only considering that Garrett is a very complex character, but also the fact that this is Riley’s first official acting role (other than some of his music videos). And the writers over at Marshals weren’t going to let Riley get away from his first gig without him having a love interest, and during this week’s episode, Garrett and Andrea (Ash Santos) are kicking things up a notch. In a clip revealed by People, you see Kayce walk into his kitchen to see her making coffee, telling her he didn’t realize she was still there. She replies: “I ain’t no two-cheek sneak. You want some joe?”  Right on cue, Garrett walks in to say: “I’ll tell you what, coyote. If we had teammates like Andrea in the Navy, I’d still be a SEAL.” Kayce responds: “Being held captive by the Cleggs wasn’t torture enough?”  Of course, while Andrea is a bad*** US marshal, she’s also just a girl, and she explained that she just couldn’t resist the “power of a country ballad,” as Riley played his song “My Way” during last week’s episode: “Who knew? I can’t resist the power of a country ballad.” The full episode will play out tonight, but in the clip, we do see Garrett and Andrea share a kiss, after Kayce tells Garrett that he needs help prepping the lower pastures because he has to “earn room and board for your overnight guest.” Fair enough… They also have Garrett walk out shirtless, and I think they’re certainly using Riley to his full potential from the singing to putting his good looks on full display… The full episode will play out tonight on CBS at 8:00 EST. “My Way” The post WATCH: Riley Green’s First Kissing Scene Airs Tonight During Episode Of ‘Marshals’ first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

The King does it again. Last night, George Strait set a new attendance record in his lengthy, legendary and illustrious career, playing for a sold-out crowd of 90,037 at Clemson’s Memorial Stadium in Death Valley. It was the first of their Death Valley Nights concert series, which Morgan Wallen will also headline this summer, and Strait’s was the first major concert in Death Valley since his Country Music Festival was held in the venue on March 28, 1999. Wyatt Flores and Cody Johnson opened the show, and it had been 27 years since Strait played the venue, and it served as his largest show ever outside the state of Texas and his fourth-largest on record. Previously, the record-setting attendance occurred in October of 1999 when 86,092 fans attended the Clemson football game against Florida State. Clemson’s official capacity for football games is 81,500, but more than 9,000 seats were added to Frank Howard Field for the show, which was held “in the round” and featured a rotating stage in Strait’s team shared news of the record on Instagram, along with a series of photos where you can see just how massive the crowd was… which made the logistics of quite everything else a total nightmare (to put it mildly) but of course, that’s at no fault to the King but a Clemson University problem and I digress… “Memorial Stadium ‘Death Valley’ in Clemson, South Carolina — y’all set a record for George’s biggest show ever outside of Texas with 90,037 fans! Special thanks to Cody Johnson and Wyatt Flores for kicking things off!” I was lucky enough to attend the show, and it’s always a treat to see The King perform live and I don’t think I need to explain the icon he is… it’s just incredible how he continues to set these records and he puts on a truly incredible show that is second to absolutely no one. He has an amazing band, his Ace in The Hole band, and considering his record-holding 60 #1 hits, the full showtime is full of chart-topping music and it simply doesn’t get any better: View this post on Instagram Strait previously set the record for the largest ticketed concert attendance in US history when he played Texas A&M University’s Kyle Field, in College Station, Texas in June of 2024, with the attendance for that show was 110,905. Zach Bryan broke that record just a little over a year later when he took the stage in Ann Arbor, Michigan at Michigan Stadium in front of 112,000 people in September of 2025. Before the King did it in 2024, you have to go all the way back to 1977 for the previous record-holding crowd, which was a show by the Grateful Dead at Raceway Park in New Jersey which attracted 107,019 Deadheads. To be 73-years-young and still setting attendance records… King s***. 2026 George Strait Shows: Saturday, May 2 Clemson, SC Death Valley Friday, May 15 Austin, Texas Moody Center Saturday, May 16 Austin, Texas Moody CenterThe post George Strait Sets New Career Attendance Record Following Massive Sold Out Show In Clemson, South Carolina first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

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If Koe Wetzel wants to make his grandma happy, he’ll get a gospel record put together. The country music star recently joined the Whiskey Riff Raff podcast to talk about how becoming a dad has changed his life for the better, how Koe Wetzel Day came to be, new music that’s on the way, and his upcoming album being written before he became a father. The Texas native also discussed his friends not recognizing him anymore because he’s a truly changed man,  how he and Parker McCollum have been back in the studio together, and growing closer to God during this time of his life… and how excited his grandma would be for him to make a gospel album. Before we got to the potential gospel project part of the conversation, Koe first covered how entering into fatherhood has led to him leaning more into his faith: “I’ve always been a man of faith. I grew up in a Christian household. I feel like I kind of got away from that for a while. Not that I got away from it, but I kind of pushed it off. With becoming a dad, and me making all these changes in my life, I feel like it’s time to grow closer to God. The more I reach out to Him, the more I ask Him for help, the more He shows it to me. It’s been really good to grow that, and continue to grow that. I’m nowhere where I want to be, but I’m working every single day to get to that point.” And through that working, Wetzel has released that he wants to use his platform more to lead others to the Lord. That revelation led us to ask if he’d be interested in a potential Christian-country crossover, or if he’d ever entertain a full fledged gospel record. Interestingly enough, the latter is something that Koe has thought a lot about… mainly because of a request from one very important person in his life: “My grandma would be ecstatic. You know I’ve thought about… with my grandparents getting older, we’re all getting older. She’s always said that she wanted me to make a gospel record. That would be really cool. I’ve thought about it before. Just going back, I grew up on the ‘Heavenly Highway Hymns.’ Growing up in a Baptist, that old piano sound and stuff… I think it’d be really cool to do, especially for her. It’s what I grew up on. That’s how (I started) with my mom and everything, me singing in the church choir. That’d definitely be a full circle to go back in on that.” @whiskeyriff @Koe Wetzel #whiskeyriff #whiskeyriffraff ♬ original sound – Whiskey Riff Not only would it be full circle for him… it’d be one of the most surprising career pivots in all of music. But it clearly wouldn’t be outside of Wetzel’s wheelhouse, and I’ll speak for everyone when I say that a gospel album from Koe would certainly be a drop day listen. You can hear more about it by checking out the interview on YouTube or making sure to download the podcast on Apple Podcasts by searching “Whiskey Riff Raff” or by clicking here. We’re also available on Spotify and wherever else you can listen to podcasts. Cheers, y’all. Audio Video The post Koe Wetzel On Why He’d Consider Making A Gospel Album: “It’s What I Grew Up On” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

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