CA Mid State Fair: Country singer grew up on SLO County ranch

Country singer Callie Twisselman smiled as she saddled a chocolate-brown horse named Cash on her family’s Shandon ranch. Behind the stables, acres of golden grass and barley swayed in the summer breeze.

Twisselman grew up on the 40,000-acre ranch, which her family has had for seven generations. That’s where she learned to ride horses, care for cattle and sing.

Now Twisselman, who lives and works in Nashville, returns to the ranch every two months to visit her family.

”This is who I am and where I’m from,” said Twisselman. “It’s really good to get back to your roots.”

On Friday, Twisselman will open for country duo Big & Rich at the California Mid-State Fair in Paso Robles. Taking the stage at the Chumash Grandstand Arena, she’ll perform songs from her new EP “Closure,” which was inspired by her childhood on the ranch.

Then, on Saturday, she’ll compete in the fair’s Country Rodeo.

“Coming back to San Luis Obispo to sing live at the fair is really like a full-circle moment,” Twisselman said. “I’m really excited because I love being home.”

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Callie Twisselman riding a horse on the family ranch at 3-years-old. Courtesy of Callie Twisselman

Growing up country in SLO County

A school bus used to rumble through the Twisselman Ranch each weekday — passing cattle grazing under a wide, blue sky, before dropping off Twisselman, her siblings and cousins at their grandma’s house.

Most of Twisselman’s family lives on the ranch. Her grandma is up the hill from

Mickey Guyton Represents Left’s Following Cultural Conquest: State Songs

“If you feel we stay in the land of the free of charge, you really should check out to be black like me.” This is the refrain to state singer Mickey Guyton’s 2020 track “Black Like Me,” and a focal stage of the New Yorker’s most current aspect piece on Guyton, titled, “Mickey Guyton Usually takes On the Mind-boggling Whiteness of Place Songs.” The gist of the post is very straightforward: place music is racist, and it requires to be disrupted from within by woke artists like Guyton.

Predictably, “Black Like Me,” gained a nomination for Greatest Place Solo General performance at the 2021 Grammy Awards. In 2020, Guyton co-hosted the Academy of Country Music Awards with Keith City, wherever she was nominated for the New Woman Artist of the Year award, and all through Blackout Tuesday in 2020, Spotify place “Black Like Me” at the leading of the Very hot Nation playlist.

Even however Guyton’s music are glorified by corporate country and the company media, each day nation admirers, like myself, haven’t accurately clicked with her tunes or liked the simple fact that region radio is regularly shoving it down our throats. 

First of all, “Black Like Me” is based mostly on the lie that the American desire does not exist for black or brown Us residents. Having a site out of the BLM mission statement, Guyton’s track overtly maintains that our country is institutionally racist, has produced small to no development because

Wild buffalo, Chhattisgarh’s state animal, is on the verge of extinction
  • Chhattisgarh is losing its state animal, wild buffalo. State government estimates say that there are only 25 to 35 wild buffaloes left in Chhattisgarh.
  • The government had attempted to clone the breed in 2014 as a way to revive the buffalo population, but experts doubt the success of this effort.
  • The state government has also relocated a pair of buffaloes from Manas Sanctuary in Assam in year 2020. Once the pair reaches maturity level for reproduction, breeding attempts will start.

The state animal of Chhattisgarh, the wild water buffalo (Bubalus arnee) is in danger. Despite all the efforts by the government, the population of wild buffalo is not increasing in the state. From attempts of cloning to bringing wild buffaloes from Assam, many experiments have been carried out, but yet the wild buffalo population is not flourishing.

According to the state government’s data, the number of wild buffaloes in the entire state is estimated to be from 25 to 35 individuals. However, the total number of wild buffaloes that have been counted in government surveys is only 13 in the state. Ten of these buffaloes are in Sitanadi Udanti Tiger Reserve, while two buffaloes from Manas National Park in Assam are kept in Barnawapara. Similarly, a wild buffalo clone has been kept in Nandanvan Jungle Safari in Raipur.

The forest department is also crossbreeding wild buffaloes with domesticated buffaloes to increase the population, but experts are raising a red flag on this effort, saying that such measures will

See Inside the Amazing Homes of State Music’s Queens [Pics]

Country music’s greatest female singers sure know how to dwell in design and style! Your preferred state queens have lived like actual-daily life royalty in some quite magnificent homes all around the earth.

From traditional country stars like Tammy Wynette, Faith Hill and Trisha Yearwood to the most significant stars of the modern-day period, such as Carrie Underwood and Miranda Lambert, state music’s prime women have demonstrated their impeccable taste in high-quality dwelling in some amazingly swanky digs. You will see some palatial mansions in the images down below, but there are also rural estates, seaside homes and much more that made the listing.

Just one of the leading female artists in state tunes owns a substantial rural estate, and one more has a two-tale closet!

Scroll by the images beneath to see inside the jaw-dropping properties of state music’s leading woman stars.

See Inside Carrie Underwood’s Nashville Mansion

Carrie Underwood and partner Mike Fisher marketed their 7,000-square-foot Brentwood, Tenn., dwelling for $1,410,000 in March of 2019, and pics expose a impressive mansion worthy of a person of region music’s biggest stars.

Shots: See Inside of Miranda Lambert’s Breathtaking Nashville Mansion

Miranda Lambert and her spouse, Brendan McLoughlin, not too long ago marketed their high-class Nashville mansion, and lovers will acknowledge numerous of the spaces pictured on the web from various social media posts. The 5-bedroom, 5.5-bathroom, 5,800-square-foot household is gated and very non-public, and it marketed for $2,595,000.

See Inside of Miranda Lambert’s Astounding Rural Estate

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