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Raising ’em right. There is something so precious about a little kid singing a modern-day country tune. It’s heartwarming to see, and it’s a sign they’ll grow up with impeccable taste in music. There have been many viral moments of little kids signing along to a Lainey Wilson tune while sporting her signature bell-bottom look, belting the words to Zach Top’s “I Never Lie,” or swooning over the mustached cowboy in Riley Green’s “Worst Way” music video. Now, Ella Langley‘s latest number-one hit is making waves among younger fans. There is no denying that Ella Langley has been on a hot streak since her viral duet “You Look Like You Love Me” featuring Riley Green. The song was the first song in CMA Award history to win Music Video of the Year, Musical Event of the Year, Song of the Year, and Single of the Year. And Ella Langley might be on track to do the same thing with her latest single, “Choosin’ Texas.” “Choosin’ Texas” has been such a success, in fact, that it recently scored Langley her first-career #1 hit on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart. Ella Langley's "Choosin' Texas" jumps 4-1 on this week's Hot Country Songs chart, becoming her first career No. 1 on the chart. — billboard charts (@billboardcharts) December 2, 2025 Fans cannot get enough of the song, co-written with Miranda Lambert, Joybeth Taylor, and Luke Dick, including younger fans. Recently, footage of a Mississippi mom, Currie Hillhouse, is going viral for a tender moment of her and her daughter singing the lyrics from the hit single. The little girl’s mother captioned the post: “Most people sing nursery rhymes, we sing @Ella Langley feat. A Vaseline-covered face because it’s winter.” Currie and her daughter lay in bed, facing each other, sweetly singing the lyrics to each other a cappella. The little girl’s twang instantly melts your heart. Of course, the video, on face value, is sweet because of the little girl’s singing, but when you look at it from a different perspective, it is a memory I am certain both mother and daughter will cherish forever. And if I had to guess, singing country songs together is part of their regular nightly routine. It did not take long for the video’s comments section to fill, but one comment stands out among the others. Miss Ella Langley herself saw this tender moment and left a short but sweet note on the video: “So good” So good indeed. Check it out for yourself. @curriehillhouse Most people sing nursery rhymes, we sing @Ella Langley ♬ original sound – Currie Hillhouse Check out some of the other heartfelt comments left on this video while you’re here: “And every night when my mama put me to bed, we laid there together and sang and sang.” “Her smiling at you is so sweet.” “When she sings ’nuffin I can doooooo’ OMG she’s adorable!!” “She couldn’t hide that dimple if she wanted to! Good job, baby girl!” “Oh, how you’ll treasure this video in many years.” “Why am I tearing up? This is so sweet.” “I love this song….I love Ella Langley….this song plays in my head all day and night.” “She’s gonna remember these moments her whole life. This is beautiful.” And it would only be right to give “Choosin’ Texas” a spin before you go: The post “Most People Sing Nursery Rhymes, We Sing Ella Langley” – Mississippi Mother & Daughter’s Viral Duet Earns Reaction From The “Choosin’ Texas” Singer first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

A historical moment for country music. This year at the Grammy Awards, Willie Nelson and his son Lukas Nelson are both nominated in the brand country category called Best Traditional Country Album. The previously titled Best Country Album category has been changed to Best Contemporary Country Album, so there will be two opportunities for some of your favorite country artists to win one of music’s most prestigious awards. Of course, as you might imagine, the Best Traditional Country Album category is stacked. We have Charley Crockett’s Dollar A Day, Margo Price’s Hard Headed Woman, Zach Top’s Ain’t In It For My Health, Luka’s American Romance and Willie’s, Oh What A Beautiful World all up for the award. Yes, the category is 40% Nelson, and it’s only the second time in history that’s happened at the Grammys, in terms of a father and son both being nominated in the same category for different albums. It’s the first time for a country father/son duo. The only other time it happened in another genre was in 1998, when Julio Iglesias and his son Enrique Iglesias were both nominated for Best Latin Pop Album, though neither one of them won it, as the award went to Luis Miguel. Funny enough, Julio and Willie have worked together in the past, on their hit song “To All The Girls I’ve Loved Before.” And while it’s the most competitive category for the country genre this year in my humble opinion, Lukas says he doesn’t view it that way. In interview with the Los Angeles Times, he says he views it as being nominated “alongside” his dad, rather than being up “against” him: “‘Against’ is a strong word. Alongside’ is better. I mean, the Nelsons have a 40% chance of winning, which is pretty good.” Considering they’re both incredible albums, I think that’s a great way of looking at it, and the odds are certainly in their favor when it comes to one for the Nelsons winning this category for the first time. It has to be an incredibly special and full-circle moment for the entire family, as it also includes Willie’s youngest son Micah, who is nominated with his dad as the producer on Willie’s Last Leaf on the Tree record, which is up for Best Americana Album. They’re clearly all cheering for each other, and will be happy regardless of who wins (they seem like a very supportive family, obviously), if one of them does win, and it certainly makes country music look good to have them all up for some of the most prestigious awards. It’s hard to imagine one of them won’t walk away with it, but you never know what could happen. Like I said, that category is stacked, and no mater who wins, it will go to a great artist and fantastic album. View this post on Instagram 2026 Grammy Nominees The full list of country nominees is below. COUNTRY Best Traditional Country Album Dollar A Day, Charley Crockett American Romance, Lukas Nelson Oh What A Beautiful World, Willie Nelson Hard Headed Woman, Margo Price Ain’t In It For My Health, Zach Top Best Contemporary Country Album Patterns, Kelsea Ballerini Snipe Hunter, Tyler Childers Evangeline Vs. The Machine, Eric Church Beautifully Broken, Jelly Roll Postcards From Texas, Miranda Lambert Best Country Solo Performance “Nose on the Grindstone,” Tyler Childers “Good News,” Shaboozey “Bad as I Used to Be [From F1® The Movie],” Chris Stapleton “I Never Lie,” Zach Top “Somewhere Over Laredo,” Lainey Wilson Best Country Duo/Group Performance “A Song to Sing,” Miranda Lambert And Chris Stapleton “Trailblazer,” Reba McEntire, Miranda Lambert, Lainey Wilson “Love Me Like You Used to Do,” Margo Price & Tyler Childers “Amen,” Shaboozey & Jelly Roll “Honky Tonk Hall of Fame,” George Strait, Chris Stapleton Best Country Song “Bitin’ List,” Tyler Childers, songwriter (Tyler Childers) “Good News,” Michael Ross Pollack, Sam Elliot Roman & Jacob Torrey, songwriters (Shaboozey) “I Never Lie,” Carson Chamberlain, Tim Nichols & Zach Top, songwriters (Zach Top) “Somewhere Over Laredo,” Andy Albert, Trannie Anderson, Dallas Wilson & Lainey Wilson, songwriters (Lainey Wilson) “A Song to Sing,” Jenee Fleenor, Jesse Frasure, Miranda Lambert & Chris Stapleton, songwriters (Miranda Lambert and Chris Stapleton) AMERICANA/ROOTS Best American Roots Performance “LONELY AVENUE,” Jon Batiste Featuring Randy Newman “Ancient Light,” I’m With Her “Crimson and Clay,” Jason Isbell “Richmond on the James,” Alison Krauss & Union Station “Beautiful Strangers,” Mavis Staples Best Americana Performance “Boom,” Sierra Hull “Poison in My Well,” Maggie Rose & Grace Potter “Godspeed,” Mavis Staples “That’s Gonna Leave a Mark,” Molly Tuttle “Horses,” Jesse Welles Best American Roots Song “Ancient Light,” Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’Donovan & Sara Watkins, songwriters (I’m With Her) “BIG MONEY,” Jon Batiste, Mike Elizondo & Steve McEwan, songwriters (Jon Batiste) “Foxes in the Snow,” Jason Isbell, songwriter (Jason Isbell) “Middle,” Jesse Welles, songwriter (Jesse Welles) “Spitfire,” Sierra Hull, songwriter (Sierra Hull) Best Americana Album BIG MONEY, Jon Batiste Bloom, Larkin Poe Last Leaf on the Tree, Willie Nelson So Long Little Miss Sunshine, Molly Tuttle Middle, Jesse Welles Best Bluegrass Album Carter & Cleveland, Michael Cleveland & Jason Carter A Tip Toe High Wire, Sierra Hull Arcadia, Alison Krauss & Union Station Outrun, The Steeldrivers Highway Prayers, Billy Strings ALL-GENRE Record of the Year DtMF, Bad Bunny Manchild, Sabrina Carpenter Anxiety, Doechii WILDFLOWER, Billie Eilish Abracadabra, Lady Gaga Luther, Kendrick Lamar With SZA The Subway, Chappell Roan APT., ROSÉ, Bruno Mars Album of the Year DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, Bad Bunny SWAG, Justin Bieber Man’s Best Friend, Sabrina Carpenter Let God Sort Em Out, Clipse, Pusha T & Malice MAYHEM, Lady Gaga GNX, Kendrick Lamar MUTT, Leon Thomas CHROMAKOPIA, Tyler, The Creator Song of the Year Abracadabra, Henry Walter, Lady Gaga & Andrew Watt, songwriters (Lady Gaga) Anxiety, Jaylah Hickmon, songwriter (Doechii) APT., Amy Allen, Christopher Brody Brown, Rogét Chahayed, Henry Walter, Omer Fedi, Philip Lawrence, Bruno Mars, Chae Young Park & Theron Thomas, songwriters (ROSÉ, Bruno Mars) DtMF, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, Scott Dittrich,, Benjamin Falik, Roberto José Rosado Torres, Marco Daniel Borrero, Hugo René Sención Sanabria & Tyler Thomas Spry, songwriters (Bad Bunny) Golden [From “KPop Demon Hunters”], EJAE & Mark Sonnenblick, songwriters (HUNTR/X: EJAE, Audrey Nuna, REI AMI) Luther, Jack Antonoff, Roshwita Larisha Bacha, Matthew, Bernard, Ink, Scott Bridgeway, Sam Dew, Kendrick Lamar, Mark Anthony Spears, Solána Rowe & Kamasi Washington, songwriters (Kendrick Lamar With SZA) Manchild, Amy Allen, Jack Antonoff & Sabrina Carpenter, songwriters (Sabrina Carpenter) WILDFLOWER, Billie Eilish O’Connell & Finneas O’Connell, songwriters (Billie Eilish) Best New Artist Olivia Dean KATSEYE The Marias Addison Rae Sombr Leon Thomas Alex Warren Lola YoungThe post “A 40% Chance Of Winning” – Lukas Nelson Likes The Odds That Him Or His Dad, Willie, Will Win Best Traditional Country Album Grammy first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

Well… that’s a new one. Over the last several years, plenty of videos have gone viral of things that ladies have thrown onstage at Riley Green, and it’s no secret that the ladies are very fond him, and he’s absolutely no stranger to having bras thrown at him and I don’t know how some of you afford that, but I digress… Apparently, it got to be such a high volume that his road crew now has a big bin full of bras to eventually be donated, and Riley pointed out that he had no idea how expensive they were so that seemed like right right thing to do. I mean, I guess it’s better than throwing them away because like I said, they certainly are not cheap: “We were putting them in a big bin, and we were gonna donate them to wherever you donate bras to, I guess. Because what I learned, there was there was like people commenting saying that they were really expensive. I didn’t know that.” But it sounds like Riley’s learned a lot from that, in addition to the extensions he’s seen flying during a few fights, and he joked in a recent interview with CMT that he doesn’t actually want anyone to throw anything onstage at all: “I don’t want anybody to throw anything onstage. No. Don’t throw anything… no fights. Yeah, I’ve seen a lot of extensions go missing. And then they go to put them back in, they’ve got the wrong girl’s hair when they’re putting it back in. It’s a whole thing… we don’t have a lot of fights.” But of course, with things like sticky boobs getting chucked at him, which Riley says he’s only “falling for once,” he’s learned quickly about everything it takes for the girls to pull of their perfect concert-ready looks, joking that he’s now qualified to “work at Ulta” because of it: “Well, I’m learning. I’m learning on the road. It’s like I can work at Ulta now. I know what Ulta is, see. Yeah. I know all about it.” And this weekend, a lady in the crowd decided to throw some, um, granny panties at him during a show in Las Vegas during the National Finals Rodeo (NFR). Riley’s face is priceless as he holds them up for the crowd to see… usually, we see thongs and push-up bras, even sticky boobs have made an appearance, but this is certainly a first: @aalleexx886 @Rileygreen #lasvegas #rileygreen ♬ original sound – a-dawg Riley also just scored his fourth Country Airplay #1 with his second duet with Ella Langley, “Don’t Mind If I Do.” It’s Ella’s second on that chart, and they’re now just the second pair since the list launched in January 1990 to have earned multiple collaborative #1s, after Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani led in 2020 with “Nobody but You” and “Happy Anywhere.” For Riley, he becomes the first artist since Taylor Swift to land back-to-back Country Airplay #1s with songs written entirely on his or her own. One of his other solo writes, “Worst Way,” led the chart for two weeks in June. “Don’t Mind If I Do” The post Riley Green’s Reaction To Having A Pair Of Granny Panties Thrown Onstage Is Priceless first appeared on Whiskey Riff.