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Outspoken conservative country music star John Rich recently called out his fellow right-leaning artists for being too afraid to stand up for their politic views as “cancel culture” takes hold in Nashville. Rich also highlighted a growing disconnect between country music’s conservative fan base and the liberals who now dominate the industry. MEAWW reported that one-half of the Grammy-winning country duo “Big & Rich” recently dished on the disconnect between the country music industry and its fans. Rich says that while most country music fans are conservatives, those who actually run the industry are mostly liberal. He says its this...

Nashville's Hot Chicken Festival kicks off at 12pm on Sunday in East Park where some amateurs are showing off their skills and turning up the heat. It's no secret Nashville produces some of the best hot chicken in the country, and local amateur chefs with wannabe recipes are preparing to sizzle some senses this weekend. 76-year-old Cha Cha Noser swears by it, and says if you think it's too hot, "You're way too cold baby." "I know it tastes good and makes you feel even better," Noser said. Another Nashville chef, Nathan Miller, barely used to use chicken in his...

The Rev. Dawn Bennett, an ordained pastor who graduated from the Vanderbilt University Divinity School. Bennett, 54, serves a majority-LGBTQ congregation at The Table, a "faith collective" in Nashville, Tennessee. She said she prefers "faith collective" to "church," because "church," to some people, is synonymous with exclusionBennett was ordained last year, making history as Nashville's first queer female Evangelical Lutheran pastor. At her ordination, she wore high-top rainbow Converses. There was a gospel choir, along with nuns dressed in drag.

Crew members and passengers aboard a Delta flight leaving Los Angeles stopped an attempted hijacking Friday afternoon. The flight was headed to Nashville but had to be diverted to Albuquerque for an emergency landing after a male passenger tried to break into the cockpit. Delta crew members and male passengers were seen wrestling with the suspect. The suspect was dragged to the back of the plane. VIDEO: Crew members used a zip tie to restrain the man

The song begins at precisely the 1-minute mark in the video.Many of you will or should recognize lots of familiar faces in the group, including BJ Thomas, who just recently passed, Willie Nelson, Bobby Bare, Roy Clark, George "Goober" Lindsey (from Andy Griffith), others._____________________________"Here's Glen performing a beautiful version of the John Hartford classic "Gentle On My Mind" live on "Ryman Country Homecoming" filmed in 1999 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN. Ray Stevens was honored to be on stage for this special event along with country pioneers Chet Atkins, Waylon Jennings, Lorrie Morgan, Willie Nelson, Roy Clark, Lynn...

Baltimore has its Highway to Nowhere, a road that gobbled up communities before the project was abandoned. Wilmington, Del., had neighborhoods wiped out by Interstate 95. Thousands of Detroit residents lost their homes — and surviving communities were scarred — by the construction of Interstate 375. The Overtown neighborhood in Miami, a majority-Black community, was “flattened,” also by I-95, forcing 10,000 people to leave their homes. In Nashville, bulldozers demolished 620 houses, 27 apartment buildings and six Black churches to make way for the I-40 expressway. All across the nation, American communities bear the scars of the headlong rush to...

The Lewis Country Store in Nashville, Tennessee is making massive waves with a giant screen broadcasting memes slamming the Biden administration over gas prices. Among the memes are photos of a laughing Tucker Carlson, an empty gas gauge with the Biden/Harris logo, and a meme of the president’s son, Hunter Biden, smoking crack in a bathtub. “Hope gas prices don’t get too high,” one side of the meme reads. The other side is captioned “gas prices,” with the Biden family photo.

A Nashville police officer was shot while responding to a 911 call of a woman shot at a house -- and the department says it believes the call was a "setup" by the shooter to get authorities to respond. Officers were fired upon as soon as they arrived at the house Tuesday evening, police spokesperson Kris Mumford told ABC News. Officer Brian Sherman was shot in the arm, the Metro Nashville Police Department said. "It was all a ruse to get the police officers to the scene," Aaron said. No officers fired their guns during the incident, police said.

THIS is the horrifying moment a cop fatally shoots a man who charged him with two butcher knives. Shocking footage shows officer Christopher Royer asking him to "stop," as the man can be seen charging towards him, during a traffic stop in Nashville, Tennessee.The passenger got out of the car charging towards the cop with two knivesThe man was later identified as Marvin Vega, 33 Credit: Police HandoutOfficer Royer was on routine patrol in the city's Bordeaux neighborhood on Saturday when he stopped the white Mercedes.According to Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, the driver remained cooperative but the passenger got out...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — An employee of a Hermitage KFC tore apart the kitchen and threw multiple heavy items at a co-worker because he was mad over how they were preparing the food, according to an arrest warrant. Metro police responded around 5:45 p.m. Sunday to a disturbance on the fast food restaurant on Lebanon Pike near Andrew Jackson Parkway.

A Tennessee CEO was fired after he was accused of harassing a teenage boy for wearing a dress to his prom. Former VisuWell executive Sam Johnson, 46, was filmed telling the boy he looked like an 'idiot' at the prom near Nashville on Saturday. He has denied the allegations, despite being caught on camera making the remarks. The boy, Dalton Stevens, 18, told NBC News he wore the dress as a statement to prove that 'clothing is really gender-less' and 'that it has no meaning', in an interview on Monday. The Franklin high school senior told the broadcaster he was...

Nashville police released body camera footage Saturday showing an officer fatally shoot a man who charged at him with two butcher knives during a traffic stop about a potentially stolen vehicle. Metropolitan Nashville Police Department Chief John Drake said it appeared Officer Christopher Royer was "possibly justified" in shooting the knife-wielding man. He said the officer was left with "no choice" but to shoot after he retreated and asked the indiviudal to drop the weapons several times -- even as the man entered the driver's door of the police car and charged toward the officer. "No officer wants to encounter...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - Two students were injured in a stabbing at a Nashville high school Thursday afternoon. According to Metro Nashville Police, the students were returning to the gym at Overton High School after a short break, when the 15-year-old suspect walked over to a 14-year-old student and immediately began stabbing them (sic).

Parts of Tennessee, including Nashville, were under a flash flood emergency early Sunday morning as a powerful storm system rolled through the region -- with reports of people clinging to trees to avoid the rising water. "Major flash flooding is occurring with numerous roads, interstates, and homes flooded with water rescues ongoing," the National Weather Service in Nashville said. "Please stay home and do not travel." The service said there were multiple water rescues ongoing across southern Nashville and there were "people clinging to trees."

A woman in Tennessee was killed and a cop was rushed into surgery following a shootout in a parking lot, graphic video shows. Footage of the Friday morning encounter between Metro Nashville Police Officer Josh Baker and Nika N. Holbert, 31, shows the 14-year veteran cop deploying his Taser on the woman while ordering her to get out of a car.

A Florida man accused of trying to organize an armed response to supporters of former President Donald Trump for their expected gathering last month at the state Capitol has been indicted on federal ...

A man was shot and killed in the parking lot of a Nashville business Friday night after a robbery "prank" for a YouTube channel went wrong, according to police. When officers got to Urban Air in the city's Hermitage neighborhood about 9:20 p.m., they learned Timothy Wilks, 20, and a friend approached a group of people, including David Starnes Jr., with butcher knives as part of the prank. Starnes, 23, told detectives he was unaware of the prank and shot Wilks in self-defense, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said Saturday in a statement. The status of the friend who was...

On this episode of the Resistance Library Podcast, Sam Jacobs invites Robby Starbuck onto the show. Robby Starbuck is a director and producer running for the House of Representatives in Greater Nashville. We had him on to talk about how the average person can join in the fight to save the American way of life, the canary in the coal mine of freedom and the criminal attack on retail investors. Listen the link to listen to Robby Starbuck, director, producer and congressional candidate for Greater Nashville on the Resistance Library Podcast.

This is good to have for when the Communist Democrats try to tell us that the protest were peaceful, there were no riots, and absolutely no violence.

Remember when we saw footage of people in Wuhan China falling to the ground as if they had been shot? Well, they HAD been shot but not by guns. They were targeted by 5G beams which can fry the inside of a person in mere seconds. Guess where the largest rollout of 5G was in China back in December 2019? You guessed it: WUHAN, CHINA!! YES – 5G was built and is being rolled out as a Weapon against humanity! “Then He said to them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be great earthquakes...