joshua ray walker

He's beaten very long odds!

"Breathing hurts. Coughing hurts. But I'm here, I'm awake, I'm alive, I made it through the surgery and now we wait for the results."

The singer and songwriter has set up a GoFundMe to cover living costs and out-of-pocket health expenses as he fights his way back to good health.

A sense of gratitude pervades his message to fans, in which he admits that 2023 was a "brutal" year, health-wise.

Country music always tells a story.

Richie's "Hello" music video has become a classic for its so-weird-it-works concept, and Walker does his best at-home recreation of it for his newly released cover of the song.

These 10 country and Americana songs deserved to be hits!

Keep your eyes (and ears!) on these rising stars.