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By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Country musician Ty Herndon rose to fame in 1995 with the release of his ballad of love and loss, “What Mattered Most,” which reached No. …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Country musician Ty Herndon rose to fame in 1995 with the release of his ballad of love and loss, “What Mattered Most,” which reached No. …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
The Festival at Sandpoint’s 41st annual summer concert series is coming to an end with a week of highly anticipated shows for fans of all …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Hailing from a small mountain town outside of McCall, Jeff Crosby is no stranger to Idaho living. For the first time in almost a decade, …
By Reader Staff
The Festival at Sandpoint will welcome one of the most celebrated up-and-coming contemporary country artists in the nation to its summer concert series, with the announcement that …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
Those in North Idaho who love country music benefit from one of the genre’s most beloved subcategories: songs about being on the water.
Whether it’s …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
I’ve long been a fan of the pre-game playlist. One can pre-game for anything: a party, an interview, a workout. It’s all about setting the …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
From writing No. 1 radio hits to earning recognition as performers in their own right, Thom Shepherd and Coley McCabe have seen every side of …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Of all the early-2000s country music hits, nothing serves as a better soundtrack to summer days on Lake Pend Oreille than Craig Morgan’s “Redneck Yacht …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff Writer
Country music as a genre can be polarizing — most people either love it or hate it.
Sandpoint country artist Devon Wade knows this, …
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