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Today, Apple music unveils “I Would If I Could,” performed by Grammy-nominee and CMA’s recently crowned Entertainer of the Year, Lainey Wilson, as the fifth release of its Lost & Found program, which spotlights unreleased tracks written by some of the best songwriters in Nashville and re-recorded by today’s biggest artists, all in Spatial Audio. “I Would If I Could” was originally written in 1996 by award-winning songwriters Skip Ewing and Dean Dillon, in what was their only collaboration together. On an upcoming episode of Lost & Found Radio with Lori McKenna on Apple Music Country, Dean Dillon recalls “Skip and I had never written before, I don’t know who had the melody or who had the idea, but when we finished, I thought we had a great song. There was more to it than a lot of other stuff I’ve written, but for whatever reason, and you know this yourself, it happens a lot. They just get pitched a couple times and that’s it. You never hear about them again. And then somebody somewhere dug this out of the trash can somewhere.” Similarly, Skip Ewing tells Lori McKenna about finding out Lainey Wilson was going to record their demo, saying, “I was stunned by who had decided this was the song for them, because I adore her. She’s got kind of a no-nonsense, real earthy space to her.” Lainey Wilson explains why she chose to record “I Would If I Could” on the upcoming episode of Today’s Country Radio with Kelleigh Bannen, saying, “When you listen to the first line of the song, it is classic… And it feels like a song that should already be a song. Two of the most incredible songwriters that have ever existed. I look up to them a whole lot. And I wanted… Read More

Chris Janson Keeps Taking Us Down the "Holiday Road" As We Head Into the Most Magical Time of Year Janson Closes Out ABC's "The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration" Janson to Perform on NBC's "Christmas At The Opry" Airing on December 7th Janson's Current Radio Single "All I Need Is You" Hits Top 10 and Climbing at Country Radio Continue reading Chris Janson Keeps Taking Us Down the “Holiday Road”→ The post Chris Janson Keeps Taking Us Down the “Holiday Road” appeared first on Country Music News Blog. Read More

This is such glorious news. As polarizing as NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has been, this is most definitely a good fire take of his. If what’s being reported is true, that is. Little reason to believe it isn’t. Yours truly believes the Philadelphia Eagles’ patented Brotherly Shove aka Tush Push is, to quote Happy Gilmore‘s Shooter McGavin, “a disgrace to the game!” It is. No way around it. Cheap. Dangerous for the players. Damaging for a QB who can’t squat […] The post Roger Goodell Reportedly Wants To See The Tush Push “Removed From The Game Permanently” first appeared on Whiskey Riff. Read More

Everybody got their bags packed for Bozeman, Montana? Spotify dropped their annual “Spotify Wrapped” this week, showing everybody just how good (or bad) their taste in music was this year – and apparently telling everybody that they should move to Bozeman for some reason. Of course there was a lot of Taylor Swift and Morgan Wallen on people’s’ lists of most-played artists. But honestly, I don’t really care about anybody’s Spotify Wrapped. What’s always most interesting to me is when […] The post Spotify Wrapped: Which Country Artists Had The Most Streams In 2023? first appeared on Whiskey Riff. Read More