Let the countdown begin. Simply put, there’s no one doing it quite as well as Zach Top these days. Though there are plenty of other stellar artists keeping the traditional scene alive, such as Jake Worthington, Charley Crockett and more, the Washington native has launched himself into the stratosphere as of late. Of course, this was highlighted on a national scale the past few months when he not only took home Best New Artist at the CMA Awards in November, which he accepted with a Coors Banquet in hand, but also when he scored his first-career Grammy earlier this month. In turn, Top became the first-ever winner of the brand-new Best Traditional Country Album category, winning it with his sophomore album, Ain’t In It For My Health. Keeping the momentum going, the “South of Sanity” singer would snag not one but five nominations at last week’s 61st annual ACM Awards. In addition to scoring his first-career Male Artist of the Year nod, the Washington native would also score nominations for Album of the Year (Ain’t In It For My Health) and Single and Song of the Year (“I Never Lie”). Unfortunately, he would leave empty-handed, running into the buzz saw that was Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” for Single and Song of the Year and dropping the other two to Cody Johnson and Parker McCollum. He would, however, deliver a stellar performance of “Honky Tonk Till It Hurts.” Fresh off his ACM performance, the Washington native would make an appearance on the Zach Sang Show. Before wrapping up the episode, which saw Top discuss everything from growing up home-schooled, his unique path in Nashville and his aforementioned Grammy win, he was asked when he’s planning on releasing his highly anticipated junior album. Prefacing the timeframe, Top would explain that he’s been actively working on the record since January. Noting that the insane touring schedule and quick rise to the top of the genre limited his time to write over the past two years, he’d explain that this was the first time he had had in quite a while to sit down and truly focus on new music. “Yeah, always. We spent a bunch of January and February writing, stacking up stuff. We put out the first record in spring of ’24 and then just got hot and heavy on the road. [I] basically had not had time to write in two years basically — stuff here and there. Its a different headspace for me. When I’m on the road doing the show thing, that’s where my heads at. It took being off the road for two months to reconfigure my mindset to get back into that writing mode, so we spent a bunch of January and February doing that.” Finally, he’d give a rough estimate of early 2027 for album #3’s release date: “Hopefully, sometime in [the] first or second quarter of ’27 I got a new record coming.” Though it’s going to be tough to follow up the likes of Cold Beer & Country Music and Ain’t In It For My Health, if there’s anyone who can do it, it’s definitely Zach Top. Here’s to hoping the “I Never Lie” singer will give us a preview with a single drop or two at some point this year. Watch the full podcast here: Zach Top Summer Tour Dates June 5 – Durant, Oklahoma – Choctaw Grand Theater with Cole Goodwin June 12 – Orange Beach, Alabama – The Wharf Amphitheater with Cole Goodwin June 20 – Columbia, Maryland – Merriweather Lakehouse with Wyatt McCubbin July 9 – Salt Lake City, Utah – Utah First Credit Union Amphitheater with Jake Worthington July 10 – Boise, Idaho – ExtraMile Arena with Jake Worthington July 15 – Saskatoon, Saskatchewan – Sasktel Centre with Lukas Nelson July 16 – Edmonton, Alberta – Rogers Place with Lukas Nelson August 7 – Ottawa, Ontario – Canadian Tire Centre with Wyatt McCubbin August 8 – Canandaigua, New York – CMAC – Constellation Brands Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center with Wyatt McCubbin August 13 – Wantagh, New York – Jones Beach Amphitheater with Marty Stuart  August 20 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – PPG Paints Arena with Marcus King August 21 – Allentown, Pennsylvania – PPL Center August 22 – Bangor, Maine – Maine Savings Bank Amphitheater with Marcus King August 28 – Gilford, New Hampshire – BankNH Pavilion with Marcus KingThe post Zach Top Says A New Album Will Be Coming The “First Or Second Quarter” Of 2027 first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

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They might sound silly now, but these rules were taken very seriously throughout eras in history.

Violence, including terrorism, against Cuba has long been tolerated in Washington; Cuba's response to it has not. That double standard is once again on full display as the Trump administration moves to indict former Cuban President Raúl Castro for the shootdown of two planes thirty years ago — even as the US military regularly blows up boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, killing nearly 200 people with impunity.

The federal criminal indictment of Cuban patriarch Raúl Castro marks a significant escalation in President Donald Trump's campaign against the communist dictatorship. If the goal is regime change on the island, Americans deserve a White House willing to explain why that needs to happen — and how the U.S. can achieve its goals at an acceptable cost.

This afternoon at Miami's Freedom Tower, the Justice Department will announce the indictment of Raúl Castro for his role in the murder of four humanitarians over the Straits of Florida on February 24, 1996. The choice of setting is not incidental. The gateway through which the regime's victims arrived in the 1960s is the gateway through which the regime now answers for them. The date is the anniversary of Cuba's independence from Spain in 1902. The defendant is 94. He has earned an American cell for every hour that remains to him.