Here we will keep track of country artists that have publicly shown support for either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris in the race for the presidency in this November’s election.

For most of the names below, you can click on them to see the proof we’ve used to add them to this list.  Let us know if we’re missing anyone!

Artists that have shown support for Kamala Harris:

• Brothers Osborne
• Chely Wright
• Jason Isbell
• Linda Ronstadt
• Maren Morris
• Mickey Guyton
• Stella Parton
• Taylor Swift
• The Chicks
• Willie Nelson

Artist that have shown support for Donald Trump:

• Brian Kelley
• Chris Janson
• Doug Stone
• Duane Allen
• Gretchen Wilson
• Hank Williams Jr.
• Jason Aldean
• Jerrod Niemann
• John Rich
• Justin Moore
• Ken Mellons
• Kid Rock
• Lee Greenwood
• Ricky Skaggs
• Rodney Atkins
• Thompson Square
• Travis Tritt

• Artist Name: Rosewood Ave
• Hometown: Iroquois Falls, ON (Sabrina) Smooth Rock Falls, ON (Dave)

What project(s) are you currently working on?

We’re really excited to finally be sharing our debut single “Fool for Love”. Our single is a true country love ballad and we are honoured to have had Grammy-nominated producer Garth Fundis (Trisha Yearwood) and multi Grammy-winning engineer Chad Carlson (Taylor Swift) bring it to life. We also just released our first ever music video which features clips of us throughout the years. We’ve been together since we were 15 years old so we had a lot of material to work with!

What inspired you to pursue a career in music and when did you know?

Honestly music has always been the ultimate dream for both of us. We’ve been playing music together ever since we first met (over 13 years now). We spent many of those years playing music any chance we could but made sure to focus on our education and professional careers. In the summer of 2019, we had a busy summer of playing shows at many music festivals which gave us the drive and need for more music in our lives. It wasn’t until December of 2019 that we decided to officially take the next step in our musical career and chase our dream.

 If you weren’t pursuing a career in music, what would you be doing for a living?

We actually do have other careers at the moment which happen to be full time jobs on top of our music career. Sabrina is a full time elementary school teacher and Dave is a Medical Radiation Technologist.

What is your favorite downtime activity?

Being from Northern Ontario, we love spending time outside and making the most of our beautiful isolated area. In the Winter we love going snowshoeing in the trails and in the Summer we love to spend lots of time on the lake kayaking. It always feels great to unplug in nature.

Who is your favorite sports team(s)?

As true northerners, hockey is the most popular sport around. Dave’s favourite team is the Ottawa Senators while Sabrina honors her Dad’s favourite team, the Montreal Canadiens. It definitely makes for some fun rivalries from time to time.

What is the last movie that you watched?

With our full time jobs plus our music, we don’t often have time to watch full movies so we resort to tv shows. We currently have a few on the go and the last one being “This Is Us”. It’s such a touching show!

What is the last album you listened to?

One of our favourite hobbies is listening to our favourite vinyls from our record collection. The last album we listened to was “So Far” by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. The harmonies are unreal! We also love the album artwork created by the one and only Joni Mitchell.

If you could only listen to one album for the rest of your life, what would it be?

Sabrina: For me, it would be “Heart Like A Wheel” by Linda Rondstadt. I’m just a huge Rondstadt fan! She can make any song her own. Her voice is so powerful and soothing at the same time. I actually listened to “You Can Close Your Eyes” non stop while recording “Fool for Love”.

Dave: My album choice would be “Traveller” by Chris Stapleton. This was his debut album and he once said in an interview that the songs on this album were years in the making. Every song on that album tells a different story and it just feels so real and I never get tired of it.

What is the greatest country song of all time?

Not sure if we could make the decision on one song alone but if we had to it would definitely be one of Merle Haggard’s many songs. He was such an amazing story teller and we could listen to him all day long.

What has been your favorite city/town that you’ve visited out on the road?

We’ve had the chance to play a couple of shows in Ville-Marie, QC which is a small town only a few hours away from our current home in Matheson. One thing we really love about playing in QC is the culture and love of the arts. We’ve had nothing but amazing hospitality when playing there. Also, the scenery there is just beautiful!

What is your favorite meal?

Dave: Pizza, Sabrina: Cheese and Crackers (…if that counts as a meal! Basically anything with cheese!)

Who is your dream duet partner?

Vince Gill! A killer guitar player and one of the best harmonisers in the business makes this a no brainer for us. We’ve always looked up to Vince Gill and his music and we really hope to meet him one day.

 Who would you like to go on tour with?

Honestly we feel that we could learn so much from any country musician or band and we’d be honoured to tag along in any opportunity given.

What is your ultimate career goal(s)?

For us, our ultimate goal is to one day be able to do music full time. We’ve made some significant progress in our music career over the last few months and we hope that the live music industry can get back up and running so we can play out and get our music out to the world.

• Artist Name: Ginnie Terry
• Hometown: Raised mostly in Bishop, CA but now living in my husband’s stomping grounds in Harrodsburg, KY

What project(s) are you currently working on?

I am currently working on the roll out of the first single “One Tear Too Many” from my debut album “Satisfied Me”

What inspired you to pursue a career in music and when did you know?

I have been singing since I was big enough to crawl up onto a stage. My mom was married to a drummer and so I was up on stage at the local VFW at about 8 yrs old singing “Silver Wings” and “House of the Rising Sun”

If you weren’t pursuing a career in music, what would you be doing for a living?

Once upon a time, I used to own a bookstore, I would love to do that again. As it stands now, I’m an over-the-road truck driver.

What is your favorite downtime activity?

When I have the opportunity to be home, I love reading and poking around antique stores.

Who is your biggest celebrity crush?

Currently, my biggest celebrity crush would have to be Daniel Craig as 007.

Who is your favorite sports team(s)?

I was actually born in New Bedford, MA and so these teams were assigned to me at at that time: New England Patriots, Boston Red Sox, Boston Bruins

What is the last movie that you watched?

Well, the movie theaters have been closed for some time…but we have been binge watching a lot of “Justified” on HULU in the meantime.

What is the last album you listened to?

Miranda Lambert “The Weight of These Wings”

If you could only listen to one album for the rest of your life, what would it be?

The original “Trio” album with Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt

What is the greatest country song of all time?

Hands down, it’s George Jones, “He Stopped Loving Her Today”

What has been your favorite city/town that you’ve visited out on the road?

I have not, technically, been out on the road as a singer, but as I stated earlier, I’m a truck driver. Hubby and I drive all over the country and one thing we have noticed is that every state has its own kind of beauty, its own personality. (Sounds a bit like a country song, doesn’t it?)

What is your favorite meal?

My favorite meal is just a big ol’ barbecue with a bunch of friends and family sitting all over the yard with cold drinks and loud music.

Who is your dream duet partner?

Well, my husband, of course. But if he’s not available, I’d love a duet with Blake Shelton…or Vince Gill…or Brad Paisley…

Who would you like to go on tour with?

I think it would be a blast to go on tour with Eddie Montgomery. And since he just lives right up the road in the next county, it would be simple to swing the bus by here to pick me up.

What is your ultimate career goal(s)?

My ultimate career goal is just to enjoy what I’m doing and see what happens next. At this point in my life, I’m past the age of feeling pressure to be the next big thing. I feel like a cross between June Cleaver and Bette Midler. Serious when I need to be, but mostly a bit sassy and having a great time!!

• Artist Name:  Few Miles South
• Hometowns:  Tori – (originally from) Los Angeles, CA; Blake – Blakely, GA

What project(s) are you currently working on?

We just released a new EP, Wiregrass. It’s a country-bluegrass project and Michael Cleveland (2020 Grammy Winner for Best Bluegrass Album) plays fiddle on 4 out of the 5 tracks. We have a lot of unreleased songs too and next up will probably be a country-southern rock album.

What inspired you both to pursue a career in music and when did you know?

We decided to give the country band thing a shot a couple years after we met. We both love traditional country music and initially wanted to write songs for other artists, but it seemed more fun to get out and play them ourselves. We started Few Miles South about 3 – 4 years ago.

If you weren’t pursuing a career in music, what would each of you be doing for a living?

-Blake: I would’ve pursued baseball.

-Tori: I would go back to teaching, music and yoga.

What is your favorite downtime activity?

-Tori: Gardening/trying to make things grow. I haven’t been too successful ’cause we’re gone so much but it’s relaxing.

– Blake: Building stuff around the house, I recently put up a new fence.

Who is your biggest celebrity crush?

-Blake: Jerry Reed, that was one funky Georgia boy.

-Tori: Emmylou Harris, I’d love to meet her, and Linda Ronstadt, and Dolly Parton, all of the Trio ladies.

Who are your favorite sports teams?

-Blake: Atlanta Braves

-Tori: I don’t really follow sports, but I like watching the Winter X Games.

What is the last movie that you both watched?

-Tori: Spencer Confidential. Haha! I tell Blake that he and Mark Wahlberg could be brothers so we always watch whatever he’s in.

What is the last album each of you listened to?

-Blake: Cookin, Jerry Reed.

– Tori: Home, Billy Strings.

If you each could only listen to one album for the rest of your life, what would it be?

-Tori: That’s too hard to pick just one, I’d have to give that a lot of thought. I’d probably cheat and make a compilation. A little country, like Jean Shepherd, a little rock, like Heart, a little soul, like James Brown, etc.

– Blake: Yeah, me too.

What is the greatest country song of all time?

-Tori: “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” by Hank Williams. That song makes me tear up every time.

What has been your favorite city/town that you’ve visited out on the road?

-Tori: My new favorite is Silver City, New Mexico.

– Blake: Jasper, Alberta.

What is your favorite meal?

-Blake : Wings

-Tori: Mac n Cheese

Who is your dream duet partner?

-Tori: How about Vince Gill.

– Blake: Would love to get Michael Cleveland to play a show with us one day.

Who would you guys like to go on tour with?

-Blake: That’s another long list, I’d have to give it more thought but off the top of my head…Billy Strings, Sturgill Simpson, Michael Cleveland, Allison Krauss.

– Tori: Anyone who’d let us haha! Emmylou Harris, The Steel Drivers, Western Centuries, Tyler Childers, Alice Wallace.

What are your ultimate career goals?

-Tori: Pretty simple, pay our bills playing music. Basically just keep doing what we are doing maybe on a more profitable scale haha!

– Blake: Make music full-time. We love touring with our dogs and camping as we go, so if we can keep that up that’d be awesome!

Mac McAnally

Happy Birthday to today’s country music birthdays!

• Cowboy Copas (d)
• Linda Ronstadt
• Lucas Hoge
• Mac McAnally
• Zach Beeken (Restless Road)