Last night on The Nightshift, Kentucky’s own Dillon Carmichael crossed the airwaves with the kind of presence that makes you stop and listen. In conversation, he was every bit the storyteller his songs promise — Keepin’ Country Alive not as a slogan, but as a way of carrying himself and his music.
We traced the roots of Raised Up Wrong, unpacking its raw honesty and the lived-in truths it holds, and turned to She Gone, where heartbreak meets a certain knowing resilience. Dillion also spoke about stepping into Adele’s Someone Like You and reshaping it with Appalachian contours, proof of how tradition and reinterpretation can coexist without losing their soul.
Across the hour, the themes were constant: a respect for where you’ve come from, an openness to where you’re going, and a commitment to telling the truth in three chords and the space between them. It was country music distilled — unpretentious, resonant, and built to travel far beyond its own borders.
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Playlist:
Eli Young Band – All Good With Me
Tyler Childers – Dirty Ought Trill
Sam Barber – Dust And Smoke
Colby Acuff – Love Was Just A Feeling
Ole 60 – If You Really Wanna Know
Bailey Zimmerman – Everything But Up
Brandon Wisham – She’s Good
Dillion Carmichael – She Gone
Dillion Carmichael – Raised Up Wrong
Philip Bowen, Julia DiGrazia – Hurricane
Lauren Alaina – Little Things
Maddie Lenhart – Will You Think About Me
Adam Mac – Last Rodeo
Lanie Gardner – Faded Polaroids
Callum Kerr – Silver Lining
Kylie Morgan – If He Wanted To He Would
MaRynn Taylor – Pretty Much
Nic D – Walk On Water
Morgan Wade – Candy From A Stranger
Hudson Westbrook – Hill I’ll Die On
Priscilla Block – You’re Breaking My Heart
Faith Hopkins – Let Him Have It
Georgia Ku – Middle Ground
Jordan Davis, Marchus King
Dasha – Austin
Carter Faith – Billy Bob Thornton – Worktape
Austin Brown – Happy Wife, Happy Life
Kaleb Sanders – Money Can’t Buy
Alexandra Kay (Track Of The Week) – Straight For The Heart
Outpost Drive – Rough Riders
