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Good morning! It was a busy morning here at CKfm headquarters as our Holiday Gift Basket Bonanza officially wrapped up. Big congrats goes out to our winner, Aaryn Souliere who takes home the big basket with gift cards and prizes valued at over $3000! Big thank you as well to all the local businesses who contributed to make our prize pack such a memorable one. Unfortunately, the winning couldn’t continue in our Monday Mash-Up. Once again, no correct answers. The two Christmas tunes mashed toge...

The Associated Press Created: December 16, 2020 12:58 PM In a year defined by a devastating pandemic, the world lost iconic defenders of civil rights, great athletes and entertainers who helped define their genres. Many of their names hold a prominent place in the collective consciousness — RBG, Kobe, Maradona, Eddie Van Halen, Little Richard, Sean Connery, Alex Trebek, Christo — but pandemic restrictions often limited the publics ability to mourn their loss in a year t...

Why have you gone away? Where is the laughter you used to bring me? Why can’t I hear music play?” Thank you, Faith Hill, for writing and recording this melancholy classic that has, all too often, defined the season of Advent and Christmas in 2020.    It hasn’t been the same, you know. No crowded shopping malls. No busy sidewalks. No hustle and bustle. No large family gatherings. Just “misty water-colored memories, of the way we were.” (That last recorded by Barbra Streisand as w...

Twenty-six years ago today, on Dec. 17, 1994, Joe Diffie received an early Christmas present: It was on that date that his single "Pickup Man," from his Third Rock From the Sun album, landed at the top of the charts, where it stayed for four consecutive weeks. Epic "Pickup Man," written by Howard Perdew and Kerry Kurt Phillips, defends a mans penchant for his pickup truck with cleverly crafted lines such as, "You can set my truck on fire and roll it down a hill / And I still wouldnt trade it ...

20 Country Artists Who Tested Positive for Coronavirus Stay home and take this seriously. Sadly, Joe Diffie and John Prine are two of the nearly 300,000 people in the United States whove died because of COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus. More than 16 million people have tested positive for the virus in America. Staying home and wearing a mask in public are the most effective measures in fighting and preventing the spread of coronavirus. Symptoms are often flu-like and may include...

Ennio Morricone, noted film composer, defining the "Spaghetti Western" soundtrack. Four of the top five Charlie Daniels Band headlining grosses came from his long-running Volunteer Jam, including the Charlie Daniels 80th Birthday Volunteer Jam, Nov. 30, 2016 in Nashville,  which drew 17,007 fans and included Chris Stapleton, Kid Rock and Luke Bryan. The performance grossed $657,921 and followed Daniels’ induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame just six weeks earlier. Mitch Slater partne...

On Dec. 17, 1994, Joe Diffie's Pickup Man, from his 'Third Rock From the Sun' album, landed at No. 1, where it stayed for four weeks.

Star musicians to play at Macs Sunday FacebookTwitterEmail From left, Pure Prairie League’s Donnie Lee Clark, award-winning artist Bryan White and Wood River’s own Don Mitchell on stage at last year’s Food For Christmas concert. Clark and White will again play “An Acoustic Afternoon,” presented by Mac’s, from 2-4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 20, in Alton.Courtesy of River’s Edge Entertainment|For The Telegraph ALTON — Frequent Riverbend visitors will be back for an acoustic set at Mac’s ...

Star musicians to play at Macs Sunday FacebookTwitterEmail From left, Pure Prairie League’s Donnie Lee Clark, award-winning artist Bryan White and Wood River’s own Don Mitchell on stage at last year’s Food For Christmas concert. Clark and White will again play “An Acoustic Afternoon,” presented by Mac’s, from 2-4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 20, in Alton.Courtesy of River’s Edge Entertainment|For The Telegraph ALTON — Frequent Riverbend visitors will be back for an acoustic set at Mac’s ...

20 Country Artists Who Tested Positive for Coronavirus Stay home and take this seriously. Sadly, Joe Diffie and John Prine are two of the nearly 300,000 people in the United States whove died because of COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus. More than 16 million people have tested positive for the virus in America. Staying home and wearing a mask in public are the most effective measures in fighting and preventing the spread of coronavirus. Symptoms are often flu-like and may include...