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A new song that you’ll find on the new Landman episode this week. Vincent Neil Emerson is kicking off 2026 with a brand new single. The Texas native is not only a songwriting mastermind but is also rooted in tradition. He keeps the traditional sound of guys like Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark alive, while still carving out his own sound. “I think I’ve always gravitated towards artists that are honest about what they’re doing. It’s the most important thing because people have a chance to connect to a little more if you’re telling the truth.” VNE once said regarding what inspires his songwriting, and he’s carried that truth-telling musical spirit throughout his career. 2025 was a slow year for Emerson with new music, but the man was hard at work, spending a good bit of time on the road taking his music to all the corners of the United States, and that trend of being a road dog is not slowing down in 2026 as he’s gearing up to hit the road for his The Red Horse tour. But while Emerson was putting releasing new music on the back burner for 2025, that did not mean that he wasn’t in the studio working. The “Rodeo Clown” singer was hard at work recording a record that will be released later this year, per a recent social media post: “Been a real great year. Been a real sh**ty year too. We live for the good days, and we get through the rest. Thankfully, my good days are better than my bad ones. That hasn’t always been the case, but somewhere along the way we hit a stroke of good fortune. Just gotta remember that. Thank y’all for always showing up. Can’t wait to ring in the new year here at home tonight and hit the road next year. Also can’t wait to drop this new record in 26…” View this post on Instagram To kick off the new year, Emerson surprised fans with a taste of what’s in store for his next chapter of music, releasing a new single titled “The Great Highway.” The song, appropriately named, is an ode to those who spend large chunks of time on the road chasing yellow and white lines. The tune is a true musician’s anthem, as their life includes a lot of truck stops, green rooms, and hearing the humming of tires on the asphalt. It’s a life that can lead to exhaustion, but it’s worth every ache, as you live the ultimate dream of performing your tunes in front of fans each night. “When that cold Canadian wind blows on my face  I’ll be pushing on the gas My wheels down on the track And my eyes are open wide I ain’t slept in days I’ve been traveling coast to coast on a great highway” VNE came out of the gate hot with new music for 2026, and I can’t wait to see what’s in the pipeline for this year. If you like the sound of “The Great Highway,” keep your ears open while watching this week’s episode of Landman because you will catch a snippet of this ditty. Turn it up. The post Vincent Neil Emerson Kicks Off 2026 With New Single, “The Great Highway” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

In the mid-1970s, Burt Reynolds and Tammy Wynette were the ultimate “it” couple, but their romance was nearly cut short by a freak accident. It wasn’t a stunt gone wrong or a car chase that almost claimed the life of the world’s biggest movie star—it was a quiet moment in a Florida bathroom that turned into a life-or-death rescue. During an appearance on the Drifting Cowboy podcast, Georgette Jones, who is the daughter of Tammy and George Jones, talked about her life and memories growing up with two of country music’s most famous musicians as parents. And of course, she recalled the famous story about how Tammy saved Burt’s life, when he almost drowned in her bathtub in 1976. As Georgette explains, Reynolds would sometimes get low blood sugar if he wasn’t eating properly, and that’s what happened here: “What happened was, mom and Burt dated for a little over a year, and he apparently had some issues at times with low blood sugar. So if he felt bad, he needed to eat some sugar and follow it up with a meal so that he could keep his blood sugar up. Well, he had been filming, and he got there early, he hadn’t eaten in hours, so first thing he eats, he sees mom has made homemade banana pudding. And mom was known for her banana pudding, and if any of you have ever had real homemade banana pudding, you know there’s just a little bit of sugar in it, right? There’s a lot, so he had himself a big helping of pudding, and apparently, he asked mom if he could go clean up in her bathroom and all that while she was cooking supper and doing stuff. Mom’s like, ‘Yeah, go ahead.'” He went back to the bathroom and decided to soak for a little while, and after a long period of time went by, Tammy got worried because he hadn’t come back out. She went back to check on him, and eventually realized something was wrong: “He went back there and I guess decided he was going to take a hot soak in the bathtub, and mom said that he was taking forever, and she was getting kind of worried about him. She went and knocked on the bathroom door, and she’s like, ‘Are you okay?’ And he wasn’t answering, so she said she finally just opened the door, and that he was almost sinking down to where his nose was about to be… he was passing out into the bathtub. And so mom said she panicked, and she just ran over, and she said, you know, he was not a little fella. He was a big, tall guy. So she’s trying to lift him up out of the water and pull him out of the bathtub, and she’s panicking, and she said she finally gets him out and runs and gets some orange juice and kind of forces it into his mouth, makes him drink it and swallow some orange juice.” Reynolds finally starts to feeling better, and he immediately started laughing… because he realized that instead of trying to wrestle him out of the tub on her own, she could have simply pulled the plug to drain the water: “He finally starts waking up and feeling better, she said he started dying laughing. And she’s like, ‘What is so funny?’ Because she was getting annoyed, she was like, ‘I mean, you almost died. You could have drowned if I hadn’t come checked on you.’ And he said, ‘Why didn’t you just pull the plug?’ And she’s like, ‘Well, I didn’t think about that. I just knew I had to get you out of the water. I wasn’t going to let you drown.’ So yeah, he made fun of her for ages after that, because he was like, ‘All you had to do was pull the plug.’ And she was like, ‘I just didn’t think.'” It’s true… but when you’re in panic mode like that, it’s obviously not as easy to think straight. But regardless of her method, Wynette saved his life, and they remained close friends for years after they stopped dating. Wynette still kept a room for him in her Nashville home, and Reynolds even directed the music video for her 1990 single, “Let’s Call It a Day Today,” on his Florida ranch. It’s a famous story, you’ve probably heard the general overview of it before, but it’s really interesting to hear Georgette’s perspective and more details of what her mother told her of the incident directly. The full podcast is available below. “Let’s Call It A Day Today” The post The Bathtub Incident: The Night Tammy Wynette Saved Burt Reynolds From A Hollywood Tragedy first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

Ten years strong. Every morning, Neal McCoy gets up and starts his day the same way many of us did when we were in school: He says the Pledge of Allegiance. And the ’90s country superstar broadcasts it live on Facebook for thousands to watch and recite along with him. It’s a tradition that started on January 7, 2016, which means this week McCoy will celebrate the 10-year anniversary of reciting the Pledge of Allegiance live on Facebook every morning – 3,653 days, to be exact. We recently sat down with Neal to talk about the milestone, and why he started saying the Pledge of Allegiance every morning in the first place: “I was sitting at home and I told my wife, I said, ‘I’m just going to type in the Pledge of Allegiance on my Facebook page.’ And she said, ‘What are you doing that for?’ … It was early January of 2016 and I knew that the the Republicans and Democrats were trying to figure out who their nominees were going to be for president… I said, ‘Really, what I want to do is just let people know that the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States of America is just a small, short thing. But it’s pledging your love for our American flag and our country.'” He had no idea at the time that it would go on for 10 years, and didn’t even expect it to become a regular thing. In fact, some people reached out and questioned whether he was sick and if everything was alright: “I said, ‘No, I just want to let people know before we start bickering back and forth that we still should show love and respect for our flag and our country.’ Pretty simple.” And as he kept saying it, Neal says he began to realize how much it meant to some of the people who were tuning in every day: “I just kept saying it for the people that wanted to say it. And a lot of those people are some older folks in nursing homes or living by themselves that just don’t have many people come and talk to them or visit with them. And they’ll watch. They’ve written me and said, ‘You know what? I don’t see many people in a day, maybe a caretaker or two… and I see you and you’re doing the Pledge of Allegiance.’ And they say, you know, the ones that can stand up, they’ll say, ‘I stand up and say it with you. It just sometimes I feel like I haven’t even started my day until I’ve said the Pledge of Allegiance with you.'” Of course, starting every day with a Facebook live can be a challenge, especially with a crazy touring schedule or even just everything that happens in 10 years. In fact, McCoy says that even through the death of his parents, he continued to hop on Facebook and say the Pledge of Allegiance every day – and he’s even said broadcast live from the middle of the ocean to make sure he didn’t have to miss a day: “I’ve been on cruise ships, and sometimes you’re in the middle of an ocean. I’ve gone to the staff and said, ‘Look, I say the Pledge of Allegiance every day on my Facebook, can I do it? Well, I haven’t enough signal to be able to say that go live.’ And they said, ‘Yeah, we’ll make sure you do.’ Sometimes have a staff [WiFi], it’s a little stronger … and they’ll say, ‘Here, just use this password.’ The one that I go on, it’s called the Country Music Cruise, and I’ve been on it, I don’t know, six, seven, eight years. And now, it’s in their morning program, they put on there, ‘Join Neal McCoy at Seaside or at so-and-so deck to say the Pledge of Allegiance,’ and you’d be amazed at all the people that show up. I do it every day before we get off the ship. And so you’ll have a huge room full of four or five hundred people saying the Pledge of Allegiance with you. And then you run into them on the beach or somewhere and they go, ‘Hey, we love you and we love your music. We really think that’s cool, that Pledge of Allegiance thing.'” In fact, McCoy says that fans will even join him to say it in person when he’s out on the road – and that he’s had fans at his shows tell him they weren’t familiar with his music, but they came out to a show because they saw him saying the Pledge of Allegiance. And while some might take it as a political statement, McCoy says there’s nothing political behind it: “I just want to let people know before we start bickering back and forth that we still should show love and respect for our flag and our country. Pretty simple… It’s not meant to be political. It’s just meant to show your love and respect for our flag and country. Doggone, it can’t be that hard.” Amen. As for his end game, well, McCoy hopes to keep it going as long as he can, starting every morning with a simple, 31-word pledge, the same one that many of us grew up saying in school. The same way he’s started every morning for the past 10 years. The post Neal McCoy Celebrates 10 Years Of Saying The Pledge Of Allegiance Live On Facebook Every Morning first appeared on Whiskey Riff.