Andrew Mies

1 week ago | whiskeyriff.com | Andrew Mies

It seems the conversation of “who’s the greatest of all-time?” is happening in all circles more frequently these days. Whether in sports or music, one of the first things that gets argued over, after the first few names are tossed out, is the criteria for opinion. In the country music world, some of these are obvious: Big singles, top to bottom well-written albums, name recognition, respect of those in the industry, and the ability to get fans in seats around the country, if not the world.

1 week ago | whiskeyriff.com | Andrew Mies

Move over spring, summer is (almost) officially upon us, which means one thing and one thing only: It’s concert season baby. While we’re all begging and ready to get ourselves packed into a lawn to listen to our favorite artists, there is one undeniable downside to a lot of these shows… The price of beer is just unbelievably high.

2 weeks ago | whiskeyriff.com | Andrew Mies

It’s always a good day when you wake up to new Joshua Ray Walker music. The country music world was shaken to its core when Walker announced he was diagnosed with colon cancer back in 2023. Things took a dive for the worse after 6-months of chemotherapy when he was told the cancer had spread to his lungs and moved to stage 4, but near miraculously, it turns out some of the worries were for naught.

3 weeks ago | whiskeyriff.com | Andrew Mies

Don’t sleep on the Florida Panthers…Whether you call them mountain lions, cougars, pumas, catamounts, or panthers, there’s just no way to describe the largest North American wild cat without shivering a bit. Males generally range between 100 and 160 pounds and can measure up to 7 feet in length, nose to tail, while females come in with a smaller but still impressive 70 to 100 pounds and 6 feet long.

3 weeks ago | whiskeyriff.com | Andrew Mies

Can we please get an album of Chris Stapleton singing songs he’s wrote for other artists? Please? While the idea of an artist the caliber of Chris Stapleton not being a household name seems silly today, he was a behind the scenes star for many years until someone came up with the crazy, but incredible, idea of putting him and Justin Timberlake on stage at the 2015 CMA Awards, which thrust him into the upper echelons of country music royalty and change country music for the better.