WPYB Country

06/23/2026

My friends at Saving Country Music do an album review of Midland’s new one “Stages” and have good things to say about it on my ‘Facebook Post of the Night’

Where to land on Midland might have just as much to do with your mood that day as it does with the band and the music itself. But it's hard to stay mad about them when listening to their new album "Stages."

06/23/2026

It's quite rare for an artist to hit No. 1 with a debut single, but Clint Black managed it in 1989 with "A Better Man."
Black wrote the song with his longtime collaborator Hayden Nicholas, inspired by a breakup that he had recently gone through.
It had been a long relationship, and Black was reflecting on how even though it hadn't worked out, it had changed him for the better.
He suggested the line, “I’m leaving here a better man” to Nicholas, who had the idea for a rhythm figure. They joined the two ideas to write the song.
Released as the lead single from Black's debut album, Killin' Time, "A Better Man" shot the singer-songwriter to instant success at country radio, reaching No. 1 on Billboard's U.S. Country Songs chart on June 10, 1989. Relive it on my ‘Facebook Post of the Night.’

It's quite rare for an artist to hit No. 1 with a debut single, but Clint Black managed it in 1989 with "A Better Man."

06/22/2026

T-Shirts now available.

Limited quantities and sizes available but we will order more if there is enough demand, so let us know if you’re interested in one of these. Feel free to message us if you want one and what size you want so we can either hold you one or get one in on special order if we run out.

We also have another style in the works too that we will share later.

06/21/2026

Charles Wesley Godwin is gearing up for the release of his next chapter, an album titled Christian Name, which is due out July 24th.
“I started writing ‘Hey There Son’ in 2019, around the time my first son was born. I’m a huge fan of Lori McKenna, and always felt like she’d be the perfect person to help me finish it. I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to bring it to her in 2024, and we knocked it out in an afternoon. I don’t think there was a dry eye in the room by the time we finished.
I knew I wanted a perspective shift in the final verse, and Wyatt Flores was the obvious choice. He’s incredible, and his performance took the song to the next level. I’m really proud of this one.”
The song finds Charles talking to his son, from an infant, through his childhood, and into his adulthood as he starts to find a wife and make a family for himself. However, there’s a twist at the end… I won’t spoil it, but it packs quite the punch on my ‘Facebook Post of the Day.’

A RIFF on what country is really about.

06/20/2026

My Facebook Post of the Day’ features Wynonna Judd who is opening up like never before on her first solo studio album in a decade.
On Tuesday (June 9), the country icon announced The Hard Truth and released its lead single, "Kentucky Queen."
And judging by her own words, fans can expect one of the most personal projects of her career.

The album was produced by Judd's husband, Cactus Moser, and took five years to complete. To read more and watch the video, just click or tap the picture.

Wynonna says these songs were born from loss, growth, healing and the lessons that changed her along the way.

06/20/2026

Billy Ray Cyrus is opening up about one of the darkest chapters of his life in a new interview.
During a recent in-depth interview with PEOPLE, the “Achy Breaky Heart” singer shared that he was going through a serious battle with sepsis in 2024 that nearly claimed his life.
“I got really sick and almost died,” Cyrus admitted to the outlet.
Throughout that difficult journey of multiple hospital visits, a loss of his voice, and an uncertain future, Cyrus said his daughter Noah’s recording of “Don’t Put It All On Me,” a track written by his son, Braison Cyrus, became his source of comfort and hope.
Cyrus admits he listened to the song so often he became “addicted” Watch the video on my ‘Facebook Post of the Night’

Cyrus said he turned to his faith and found comfort in his daughter Noah’s music during his battle with sepsis.

06/19/2026

Ashley McBryde, by her own admission, spent a lot of her career hiding the fact that she was drunk while on stage. It all came to a screeching halt in 2022, when McBryde went to rehab.
“When I left treatment, or that I lovingly call trauma camp, I left Tuesday at lunch, back to Nashville by that evening,” Thursday, I’m back on stage. This is the first time I have been longer than 30 days without alcohol, and I had to go do a show. I was out opening for Dierks Bentley at the time.”
Although she couldn’t have known it at the beginning of her first sober show, the entire evening was eye-opening for the singer.
“‘What do I do? How do I walk? I don’t even know how to sit in a chair without being drunk,'” McBryde remembers thinking. “It was the most terrifying, coolest experience. I wish I could go back and experience it again, because I was so shocked with the ease of everything I was doing. My breath, I’m supported. My legs, moving across this stage just fine. My hands, not shaky. Who knew that would be handy?
“It was scary and amazing to go, ‘Look what you did,'” she adds. “‘You went from embarrassing yourself to stealing the night, and you’ve only been without it for 30 days. Who knows what this is going to be like in 60 days?'”
Check out Ashley’s “Bottle Tells Me So” her new song on my ‘Facebook Post of the Night’

Ashley McBryde had no idea what it would be like to perform sober.

06/18/2026