Post Malone played 22 songs during his first Big A-- Stadium Tour stop in Charlotte, N.C. Continue reading…

Jelly Roll has plenty of experience when it comes to taking concert crowds to church, and this past weekend at CMA Fest in Nashville, he did just that. The country music star has a knack for delivering energetic, bring-the-house-down messages to the masses. Pretty much anytime he wins an award, it’s must-see TV, and almost every time he’s in front of a microphone, he’s preaching the gospel and telling the world how instrumental Jesus has been in turning his life around. He never shies away from sharing his testimony, and more often than not, when he’s up on stage, the rapper-turned-country-artist uses his platform to spread the word of the Gospel. During a surprise performance at CMA Fest, Jelly Roll went full evangelist and talked to a crowd of tens of thousands of people about the power of God. Before breaking into “Hard Fought Hallelujah,” a song that he and Christian artist Brandon Lake made into the No. 1 Christian song of 2025, he addressed the crowd and said he had prayed shortly before he came out on stage… and was led to open his setlist with the Christian hit: “I prayed about it backstage and God said, ‘Son do you think tonight has anything to do about you?’ In that moment, I realized that we don’t need to open this show talking about Jelly Roll. If I’ve got 55,000 people listening to the sound of my voice, we’re gonna open this show talking about Jesus Christ. Can we go to church right now please?” @rally.point.music Jelly Roll with a surprise prefromance at CMA fest #music #countrymusic #country #nashville #jellyroll ♬ original sound – Rally Point Music Pretty powerful stuff right there. Later on in the show, just before Jelly Roll played “Bloodline” (a song he collaborated with Alex Warren on), the country artist took a moment to talk about generational trauma. Just like the message of the song, he proclaimed that anyone out there carrying the weight of what their family passed down to them could break free of that burden: “I serve a God of redemption. I serve a God of love. I serve a God that believes that if you believe and put the work into change, you can actually change your life. That’s the God that I serve. I did nothing to deserve the grace I got. I did nothing to deserve to stand on this stage. So I tell you clearly that tonight is the night that you can be the person that breaks the generation curse in your bloodline.” @lianaforwith jelly roll bringing Nissan to church for the second year in a row!! #jellyroll #cmafest2026 #nashville #cma #bloodlines ♬ original sound – Liana Nischbach PREACH. Regardless of how you feel about Jelly Roll or his music, it’s cool to see a guy with his story (quite literally a living testimony to the power of God) using the platform that he has to praise the Lord for everything that He’s blessed him with, while also doing his best to inspire others to follow Jesus and make positive changes in their lives.The post “I Did Nothing To Deserve The Grace I Got”: Jelly Roll Preached A Gospel Message Of Redemption At CMA Fest first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

It just doesn’t get better than “Gunpowder & Lead.” It was Miranda Lambert’s first Top 10 hit at country radio, and it remains a fan-favorite song to this day… I mean, I truly don’t think there’s a better song to absolutely scream your heart out than that one. It helped shape her reputation as a bad*** who doesn’t take anybody’s crap, and it will forever be one of my favorites in her vast and incredible catalog. She co-wrote it with Heather Little, and it was released in 2008 as the third single from her album, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. In addition to peaking at #7 on country radio, it became minor crossover hit, peaking at #52 on the US Billboard Hot 100 all-genre chart. It has since been certified 3× Platinum by the RIAA. Miranda’s parents were private investigators in small town Texas when she was growing up, and they would often take in battered women and children and give them a safe place to stay, so Miranda was exposed to a lot and many of those stories together over the years inspired the song. And during a recent interview for Elle with Reba and Ella Langley, Miranda says a lot of the small risks she took early in her career didn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things, but the big ones “always did.” She viewed it as very risky to put out a song that was about “shooting an abusive husband” on country radio, because there were not many songs like that getting played on mainstream country radio at the time, but Miranda felt like it was something that “needed to be heard” and “needed to be said,” and she couldn’t have been more right in my humble opinion: “When I’m sitting here looking at all three of us, I feel like, there’s small risks that don’t matter in the big scheme of things that didn’t pay off, I feel like, but the big ones always did. One of my first songs out was ‘Gunpowder & Lead.’ Like, that wasn’t that popular to be singing about shooting an abusive husband on the radio. You know what I mean? But I was like, I don’t care, because it’s something I lived through, like, vicariously through my parents helping women and their kids. And I wrote a song about it, and I wanted it to be heard. It needed to be said.” She then turned to Ella to acknowledge that they needed to be friends for that very reason… “I think, just sticking to my guns is why, maybe someone like you, we needed to be friends because you see that part of yourself.” Considering how popular and successful that song became, it’s hard to even imagine that there was a time it could be considered a big risk, but certainly paid off and then some and she deserves a TON of credit for taking that risk despite the fact that I’m sure there were a ton of people who thought it was a very bad idea: View this post on Instagram Turn it up… it will simply never get old: “Gunpowder & Lead” The post How Miranda Lambert Took A Massive Risk Sending “Gunpowder & Lead” To Country Radio first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

Zac Brown says his decision to perform at the controversial UFC Freedom 250 event is all about his patriotism, his support for the troops and his fandom for UFC. Continue reading…

Chris Young will not only turn 41 years old on June 12, but that's also the day the deluxe version of his album I Didn't Come Here to Leave drops. Young stopped by the Taste of Country Nights studio ahead of the release, and I wanted to get all the tea on how the country superstar celebrates his birthdays — and who gave him the best birthday gift he's ever received. "I... Continue reading…