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Well this one’s going to be a #1. Morgan Wallen is in Tuscaloosa, Alabama tonight for the second weekend of his Still the Problem tour. And at first it looked like the biggest moment of the night was going to be Morgan walking out with the GOAT himself, legendary Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban: Morgan Wallen x Nick Saban in Tuscaloosa, Alabama // https://t.co/hm9LHw1Tsk pic.twitter.com/wvEQ2j0CGP — Whiskey Riff (@WhiskeyRiff) April 19, 2026 Turns out though, he had another surprise up his sleeve – with the help of his opener, Ella Langley. Ella recently dropped her brand new album Dandelion, which has been a massive hit and an early contender for the best album of 2026. But Morgan’s also teased that he’s been in the studio recording new music, and as it turns out, the two even teamed up for a new duet together. Morgan and Ella surprised the crowd tonight by announcing that they have a new collab called “I Can’t Love You Anymore” coming out next Friday. And as eagle-eyed fans noticed, she had actually already dropped a hint for fans in her “Choosin’ Texas” music video, which featured a Tennessee (for Morgan Wallen) license plate with the letters “ICLYA.” The Ella Langley x Morgan Wallen song is rumored to be called "I Can't Love You Anymore" She teased the song in her "Choosin' Texas" music video, with the TN state symbol representing Morgan pic.twitter.com/TFic7V3bfj — Morgan Chart Updates (@MorganChart) April 19, 2026 While we don’t know yet whether it will be featured on Morgan’s upcoming album or whether it’s just a one-off collab, Morgan and Ella treated the crowd in Tuscaloosa to the first listen to the new song: View this post on Instagram While it’s the first collab the two have released together, it’s not the first time they’ve teamed up: Ella opened for Morgan on his I’m the Problem Tour last year, and while she was on the road with him Morgan brought Ella out on stage to join him on his #1 hit “What I Want,” which is a duet with Canadian pop star Tate McRae on his I’m the Problem album. The only problem (no pun intended) for Ella, though, was that she had trouble remembering the lyrics. During her recent appearance on This Past Weekend with Theo Von, Ella admitted that the pressure of the moment (and the fact that there are a lot of words in that song) had her nervous to perform it with Morgan: “When I did ‘What I Want’ with Morgan, I messed up the words almost every single time. I’ve never been so nervous to go out and do something. I just felt like I could throw up before I walked out there every time. I just could not remember those words.” Ella says she practiced the song to herself for days, but couldn’t seem to get the words down by the time she took the stage. In fact, she had even shared video of herself writing the lyrics on her hand so she would be able to remember them on stage: @ellalangleymusic1 The rain was an unpaid actor #madisonwi ♬ original sound – Ella Langley And of course the pressure of performing it in a stadium with Morgan Wallen didn’t help: “POV, you go through this tunnel, you know what I mean? And you’re playing in the stadium. It’s the most people you’ve ever been in front of. You’re walking out with Morgan Wallen, everything gets dark and there’s smoke everywhere and you got to walk out and I’m in pointy heels and there’s grates out there so you got to make sure you’re not falling down in those. You get up and then, here you go, you get one shot at it. There’s no practice, too. You get like one rehearsal, you go out there and it’s like, okay. But doing it in front of 80,000 people is different than 2:00 p.m. in the middle of the day.” She admits that Morgan gave her some crap for messing up the lyrics to the song – at least until it he did it too one night while they were performing: “What was awesome is the last time we did it is he came out and messed up the words. When he did that, I started to laugh so hard cause he was giving me so much shit about messing up the words. He was just like, “You can’t come out here and mess this up again.” I was like, “I might. I really am scared that I might.” And so the last night he did and it was like, he just immediately could never say another thing to me about messing up the words, you know.” Ella says that Morgan jokes now that he messed up on purpose to make her feel better, but that looking at him in the moment it was “pure frustration that he could no longer talk shit about me for messing up the words.” Hopefully neither of them mess up the words to this new one.The post WATCH: Morgan Wallen & Ella Langley Perform New Unreleased Collab Coming Next Friday first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

I mean, she had to do it. This afternoon, Kacey Musgraves played the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, headlining the Mojave tent, where she played a total of 13 songs, with some of them of course being from her forthcoming sixth studio album, Middle of Nowhere, which Musgraves produced alongside longtime collaborators Daniel Tashian and Ian Fitchuk. Kacey’s album is out everywhere on May 1st, and I can’t wait, and so far, she’s put out two songs from the 13-song tracklist, including the lead single “Dry Spell,” as well as the title track “Middle of Nowhere.” Kacey will have four features from some fellow artists as well, an absolutely stacked lineup that features Willie Nelson, Billy Strings, Gregory Alan Isakov and Mrs. Miranda Lambert herself… it’s a dream. And I had a sneaking suspicion that Kacey would call on her past Coachella set this weekend, which went mega viral in 2019, when her attempt at a call-and-response with the audience went very wrong. She wanted them to respond as the “haw” to her “yee,” quite literally, as she sang her song “Velvet Elvis.” Well, they were either bad at following directions or got too excited at one point, though the first two rounds of “yee-haw” went very smoothly. But when Kacey pointed the microphone at the crowd without her saying “yee” first, they responded with “haw” anyways, and it became a mega viral moment that I still see surface online every now and then, because Kacey responded to them with a great line: “I didn’t say f*****’ yee!” To be fair, she did kind of fake them out, but it ended up being hilarious… So of course, she had to remind fans of the hilarious moment earlier today, when she showed a video of that previous Coachella moment, along with an alien in the corner, as she played her set. Of course, fans know she recently spotted some UFO’s in what has also become a viral story, and so she incorporated that, as well: @spillsesh Kacey Musgraves brings up her viral yeehaw Coachella moment #kaceymusgraves #coachella ♬ original sound – Spill Sesh You just never know what Kacey has up her sleeve, and look no further for proof of that than the very Texas entrance she made coming in to the stage on horseback: @spillsesh I LOVE HER OMG #kaceymusgraves #coachella ♬ original sound – Spill Sesh No one does Coachella quite like Kacey… and I’m here for it. She put out “Middle of Nowhere” this past Friday, which will likely be the last song she puts out from the tracklist before the full album is released in just under two weeks. “Middle of Nowhere” “Dry Spell” Middle of Nowhere Tracklist: 1.Middle of Nowhere 2.Dry Spell 3.Back on the Wagon 4.I Believe in Ghosts 5.Abilene 6.Coyote feat. Gregory Alan Isakov 7.Loneliest Girl 8.Everybody Wants To Be a Cowboy feat. Billy Strings 9.Horses and Divorces feat. Miranda Lambert 10.Uncertain, Texas feat. Willie Nelson 11.Rhinestoned 12.Mexico Honey 13.Hell on MeThe post Kacey Musgraves References Recent UFO Experiences & Viral 2019 Set In 2026 Coachella Performance first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

Is “Nutshell” Billy Strings’ best cover? It’s certainly up for debate, but I think it might be. At least amongst the non-bluegrass covers that have found a spot in his seemingly endless collection of songs from which his setlists are composed, “Nutshell” is up there at the top. For anyone who may not be familiar, covers of other artist’s songs are as much a part of Billy Strings’ live show as his originals. As is often the case with jam bands, Strings seldomly repeats songs during a run of shows, so in addition to whichever originals he chooses to play on a given night, he’ll  play nearly as many bluegrass and traditional folk covers, and may even mix in a bluegrassified rock cover or two. Of those, some of the more frequently played fan favorites include songs like “Train, Train” by Blackfoot, “Black Clouds” by String Cheese Incident, and Widespread Panic’s “All Time Low,” to name a few. Within the past few years, though, “Nutshell” has  creeped up as a recurring cover, and it has quickly became a favorite amongst the Billy Strings faithful. Originally released in January 1994, at the peak of grunge rock and a few months before the high-profile suicide of Nirvana’s frontman Kurt Cobain on April 5th 1994, “Nutshell” is an eerily beautiful song off of Alice in Chains’ Jars of Flies album that gave the public a look inside the troubled an isolated mind of the band’s frontman Layne Staley. Exactly eight years following Cobain’s death, on April 5, 2002, Staley tragically passed away from an overdose, adding a particularly haunting element to the gravity of “Nutshell.” With a stripped-back, acoustic approach that differs sonically from the majority of AiC’s heavier catalog, “Nutshell” fits perfectly within Billy Strings’ sonic and vocal wheelhouse. He covered it for the first time in Cincinnati on March 18, 2023, and since then, he’s played it periodically enough that fans have latched on and many consider it a bucket list cover to hear live. I had been chasing it myself, and after hearing it live for the first time in Greensboro, North Carolina earlier this week, I can attest that it is a special cover indeed. As soon as Strings played the recognizable first riff, the crowd erupted, but immediately silenced themselves as he began to sing the poignant lyrics of the first verse. “We chase misprinted lies We face the path of time And yet I fight, and yet I fight This battle all alone No one to cry to No place to call home” The song gives me chills any time hear the original, but there’s just something ethereal about hearing Billy Strings play it live, in a packed stadium with thousands of people hanging on to every word. Check it out for yourself below, live from Greensboro this past Tuesday. Billy Strings has some great covers up his sleeve, but I think this one might just be my favorite. Following this song, he went right into his original “Wargasm,” and those two tracks back-to-back were an absolute force. You know what they say – Never miss a Billy show in NC. He tends to put on an extra special show when he gets near the stomping grounds of his greatest musical inspiration, the late Doc Watson. Anyway, it’s only right I include the iconic video of AiC performing “Nutshell” for MTV Unplugged in 1996. Rest in peace Layne Staley. Go to a Billy Strings show, you won’t regret it. Billy Strings Tour Dates: 4/22 – Charleston Coliseum – Charleston, WV 4/24-4/26 – Fishers Event Center – Fishers, IN 7/4 – Willie Nelson’s 4th of July Picnic @ Germania Insurance Amphitheater – Austin, TX 7/14 – Berglund Center – Roanoke, VA 7/17-7/18 – Portsmouth Pavilion – Portsmouth, VA 7/21-7/22 – Agganis Arena – Boston, MA 7/24-7/25 – Cross Insurance Arena – Portland, ME 7/28 – PeoplesBank Arena – Hartford, CT 7/31-8/1 – Bethel Woods Center for the Arts – Bethel, NY 8/28-8/29 – Ionia Freak Fair @ Ionia County Fairgrounds – Ionia, MI 9/18-9/19 – Ball Arena – Denver, CO 9/20 – Paramount Theatre – Denver, CO 9/25 – The Orpheum Theatre – Los Angeles, CA 9/26 – Kia Forum – Inglewood, CA 9/28 – Pechanga Arena – San Diego, CA 10/2-10/3 – Oakland Arena – Oakland, CA 10/6 – Matthew Knight Arena – Euguene, OR 10/9-10/10 – Angel of the Winds Arena – Everett, WA 10/23-10/24 – The Orion Amphitheater – Huntsville, AL 10/30-10/31 – CFG Bank Arena – Baltimore, MD 12/4 – Saenger Theatre – New Orleans, LA 12/5 – Smoothie King Center – New Orleans, LA 12/9 – Smart Financial Centre – Sugar Land, TX 12/11 – Dickies Arena – Fort Worth, TXThe post Watch Billy Strings Perform Haunting Cover Of Alice In Chains’ “Nutshell” In Greensboro, North Carolina first appeared on Whiskey Riff.