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Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
5 Must-Hear New Country Songs: Megan Moroney, Kenny Chesney, Dierks Bentley, I'm With Her & More
In today's crop of new music, Megan Moroney and Kenny Chesney team up on a song celebrating their time spent on Chesney's Sun Goes Down Tour last year. Meanwhile, Dierks Bentley previews his upcoming Broken Branches album with a new release. Julie Williams pays homage to those who have uplifted and inspired her, while roots music luminaries Leftover Salmon and I'm With Her also offer new music. Kenny Chesney and Megan Moroney, 'You Had to Be There' More from Billboard Bad Bunny's 'Debí Tirar Más Fotos' Returns to No. 1 on Billboard 200 After Vinyl Release John Legend Says He's Shocked by Ye's 'Descent' Into 'Antisemitism' and 'Anti-Blackness' Kelly Clarkson Tells Fans She's 'Bummed' Her Talk Show Stops Her From Touring During NJ Concert On this breezy, jaunty summer tune, Moroney reminisces on a summer filled with music and magic, first as a fan soaking in music from the nosebleed seats, then as an artist. She chronicles her journey from attending a Chesney concert in Atlanta seven years ago, to being an opener on his 2024 tour. Chesney joins on the second verse, his warm, conversational voice offering advice on lines including 'Keep your heart on your sleeve and your chin held high.' The song has a classic Chesney feel and serves as an excellent vehicle for their intertwined voices. Dierks Bentley, 'Standing in the Sun' Dierks Bentley offers another preview of his upcoming album Broken Branches (out June 13). His latest song, written by Kyle Sturrock, compares life's hardships to hurricanes and freezing snows, but maintains that his lover's affections are life-refreshing, noting that 'noise dies down and life slows up' when he's with the one he loves. Gently rippling guitars and a laid-back tone echo the song's sentiments. Julie Williams, 'The Women Who Made Me' Williams, known for her work on her 2024 EP Tennessee Moon and her 2023 self-titled project, offers up a new song dedicated to confident, resilient women. Jangly guitars and serene fiddlework lace with Williams' honeyed vocal as she pays tribute not only her mother, but also the influence of many of country music's female greats. She namechecks songs including The Chicks' 'Wide Open Spaces,' Trisha Yearwood's 'XXXs and OOOs' and Sara Evans's 'Born to Fly,' and celebrates the strength and wisdom of her mother, who 'carried a heavy load/ Never let on,' and taught her to lean into music as a solace. Leftover Salmon feat. Sam Bush and Del McCoury, 'Let's Party About It' Venerated jam band Leftover Salmon has been known for its latticework of country, bluegrass, jazz and rock for more than three decades, and on the new LP, Let's Party About It (which released May 9 on Compass Records), it's clear the group has no intention of pausing its eclectic, free-wheeling brand of music and dedication to top-shelf musicianship. The project's title track further spotlights Leftover Salmon's communal approach to music-making, and highlights Dave Matthews Band's Jeff Coffin on soprano saxophone, as well as Sam Bush on fiddle. The rollicking tune pulls listeners in with its lively spirit and urges them that is better spent united in partying rather than in harmful division. I'm With Her, 'Wild and Clear and Blue' This celebrated trio of Sarah Jarosz, Sara Watkins and Aoife O'Donovan released their first collaborative album as I'm With Her in 2018, with See You Around. They return with a new release via Rounder Records. On the project's title track, backed by a mesh of violin, guitar, piano and mandolin, they reminisce about childhood moments spent soaking in music that played in their mothers' cars, finding a gem of an album in dusty record bins, and how those moments spurred their musical passions and have stayed with them as the years have passed. Their shimmering harmonies are tightly woven purity, giving the song's nostalgic message ample space to take center stage. The project marks a glorious return for this talented trio. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
Yahoo
17-04-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
SFD data shows fewest opioid incidents since 2017; people call for more Narcan stations
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The Springfield Fire Department issued its latest annual report, which has data that shows SFD responded to the least number of opioid incident calls since they began tracking that data in 2018. SFD gave out 185 Narcan kits in 2024, a 268% increase from 2023, when they responded to 282 opioid incidents. Ozarks First spoke to two people who have had to use Narcan for a drug overdose, and while they say it's not just SFD handing out kits, the effort is saving lives. 'I would not be here if there wasn't Narcan stations across town,' Laura Weger says as she discusses her sobriety. 'I'm dead set to stay sober this time.' Weger was revived with two doses of Narcan several months ago, and that's when she used that revival to revive her life. 'I laid there for two days and I still came out of it. I didn't just come right out of it. I literally lay there motionless for two days. When I did come out of it, everything was on autopilot and I immediately got sick and it was hard to understand everything for a while, but that that was my eye opener. That's when I decided [to get clean], and I walked 17 and a half miles to get into inpatient care,' Weger said. Weger says sometimes people don't call for help before working with Narcan but does believe the number of overdose have gone down overall. 'They think, 'I don't want to get in trouble. I have this on me. I have that on me, I have warrants',' Weger said. 'Lives are being saved.' Rusty Williams tells Ozarks First he's been revived 15 times with Narcan, some by first responders, and says that motivated him to turn his life around. 'I had broken bones and was prescribed opiates legally by a doctor. Once those ran out, I wanted more. Started experimenting with street opiates, switching over to heroin and eventually to fentanyl,' Williams said. 'I got involved in a recovery program called Broken Branches. Now, I'm a leader there, but I started to see how it affected my family and my friends, and eventually just kind of got tired of it. Sick and tired and wanted something different, and now I have ten months in recovery.' He says it makes sense the number of incidents are down, because there are more kits on the streets. 'I think they are responding to fewer because people are readily have access to naloxone. I know for myself personally, at one time I was in the middle of an overdose in the passenger seat of a vehicle, I went to Walgreens and had to come up with $130 to get the dose. Now I can go there and get it for free,' Williams said. 'I'm starting to see more people are just keeping it in their backpacks, in their car, having it with them, handing it out. I've been saved with it and I've also saved other people with it.' Weger and Williams believe Narcan stations should be more present in town, and more kits should be on the streets, and potentially save more lives. 'I think is extremely important, not only in my personal life, but what I see in the community for people to just have more awareness on naloxone in general, even people that don't struggle with addiction or will necessarily even know anyone, I feel like they can keep a kit in their car or give them out to people where they think they might be needed,' Williams said. 'I think we should have access to it at gas stations, on the counters, the library and anywhere that people may come and go,' Williams added. 'I feel like we should have access to it because once the life is saved, that person then has a chance to change their life, reunite with their family, and be a productive member in the community.' 'I think it's not just the fire department or even places like [Better Life in Recovery] that we hand out, like hundreds of hundreds like there's boxes coming in and there's a free station right outside. If you check it like once a week, you'll see that it's emptied and then we refill it. Like even in our meetings, like people are coming up and they're getting handfuls,' Weger said. 'We need more awareness, we need education. I think if they if they don't keep handing it out, you know, then there's going to be a lot more people die.' Weger's desire for more kits on the streets also stems from her friend who passed away, unable to get help during an overdose. 'I lost my best friend that way. Nobody identified her. They didn't call the cops. They didn't call the ambulance. They didn't call nothing. They let her die, and she could have been saved. She could have, but people are uneducated and they did not have the resources and nobody had Narcan.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
CBS News
17-02-2025
- Entertainment
- CBS News
Dierks Bentley announces 2025 "Broken Branches" tour, with 4 stops in California
Country music star Dierks Bentley will be hitting the road again this year with a new 30-plus city tour. The "Broken Branches" tour comes ahead of a new album – with a new single, "She Hates Me," released on Friday. Zach Top and The Band Loula are listed as the opening acts for the new tour, which is set to kick off to kick off in late May. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dierks Bentley (@dierksbentley) The first California stop of the tour will be June 19 at the North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre in Chula Vista. Bentley will then return a week later for a string of shows across the Golden State, starting on June 26 at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles, then on June 27 at Toyota Amphitheatre in Wheatland, and finally the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View on June 28. Tickets for the Chula Vista, Mountain View, and Wheatland shows are set to go on sale Feb. 21. The LA show tickets are scheduled to go on sale Feb. 28.
