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After spending the first half of the year off the road and recharging with his wife at home, Chayce Beckham is diving back into music, starting with his latest release, “Dirt Floor,” out now.
Marking his first new music of the year, the track finds Beckham leaning into a more romantic, moody sound while continuing to showcase his cinematic storytelling. Penned by Beckham alongside Brandon Kinney and John Pierce, “Dirt Floor” follows the journey of two people who quickly realize that their connection has blossomed into the kind of love story they had been searching for.
As Beckham’s warm, rich vocals spread across the western backdrop, he charms the listener by capturing the feeling of finding the right person at the right time and wanting to hold onto that moment forever.
“I think really just the idea of just being in the right place with the right person and trying to make that feeling last forever. I think coming out of my last record and all the music that we made and everything, just writing a ton of breakup songs, but still being able to write something that felt moody, but that wasn’t about that. So that was kind of the inspiration behind it,” he explained to Country Now while reflecting on the writing process of “Dirt Floor.”
In addition to tapping into a new style of storytelling, the Southern California native also introduces a fresh sound to his catalog with this song.
“It’s just such a different and unique tone I think for me. So when we got in the studio, we started trying to attack it from every different angle and figure out how we’re going to make it sound and production. It just kind of unfolded that way and came out like this cool smokey love story, which I think is awesome.”
Beckham admits that “Dirt Floor” is just the beginning of a new chapter, with plenty more music on the way in the coming months. After taking six months off, he wanted to ease his way back into releasing music. Stepping away from the constant pace of touring gave him the chance to slow down, focus on his songwriting, and figure out the stories he wanted to tell next.
“I 100% needed to just live a normal life for six months, do my chores and recharge,” he explained. “It’s hard being in a different place every three days. So trying to pull inspiration and song ideas and stuff like that kind of becomes more of a challenge the more and more that you’re on the road. And so it was good for me. I was able to buckle down and actually just focus on the music that I was making at the time.”
“Just doing regular stuff and just hanging out and doing chores and spending time at home with my wife, it definitely gives me more creativity and more influence to write more music,” Beckham added.
Now, he is feeling more fired up than ever to share what he has been working on behind the scenes. “Dirt Floor” sets the tone for a new chapter of music that shifts away from the heartbreak-heavy themes of Beckham’s previous work. In this season of life as a husband of almost a year, he finds himself embracing more hopeful stories that reflect where he’s at personally.
“I think every song just really approaches a new territory for me. There’s some stuff I’ve done before. We have one on there called ‘Take Me Home’ that’s definitely a little less lonely kind of a feel…And there’s other songs that are just way more down home and very easy to listen to. So yeah, it’s a lot more about life and there’s a couple love songs that we got. So just moving away from my territory of constantly singing about breakups and hardships and stuff and just writing about different parts of life.”
Back in March, Chayce Beckham kicked off The Old Fashioned Tour, bringing his live show across the country. He will wrap up this trek on July 24 with a stop in Chillicothe, IL and then serve as an opener on select dates of Cody Johnson’s 2026 Tour.
For the American Idol winner, the best part about getting back out on the road is reconnecting with his fans through meet and greets, signing as much merch as possible in a night and taking pictures with the fans who spent their hard-earned money to see his show.
“The whole thing’s been a lot of fun just getting to reconnect with everybody and go out on the road, play festivals, see my buddies that I haven’t seen in a while and get to play shows with them. But definitely I’d say probably just getting the chance to go out and meet the fans and hang out after the show and get to talk to people and hear their stories,” he admitted.
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Like many of her relatives, Amy Duggar King has been deeply affected by Joseph Duggar’s criminal cases.
During a recent interview, she shared that she has actually spoken to Joseph’s alleged victim.
Amy says that she offered encouragement and praise to the girl, who was only 9 for the series of 2020 incidents.
She also expressed dismay that Joseph could confess but then take it back and force this girl to endure his trial.
‘You are such a strong person’
During her recent interview on The Sarah Fraser Show, Amy revealed that she has spoken with the girl at the center of Joseph’s criminal case in Florida.
In 2020, Joseph went on a family vacation. Traveling between states to vacation during the first month of a deadly pandemic is, sadly, the least horrific detail of this story.
The unnamed accuser, who is now in her early teens, was only 9 years old when she says that Joseph repeatedly molested her during the trip.
It was only earlier this year, it seems, when she told her family. Her father called Joseph, who reportedly confessed twice to the despicable crime — though he has since pleaded not guilty in court.
“I just gave her hope. I said, ‘This doesn’t have to destroy you. It really truly doesn’t,’” Amy reported of having spoken with the girl. “I told her that if she ever just needed a safe place to talk, that I’m here.”
According to Amy, she also praised the girl’s strength for coming forward.
“You speaking out and you being so honest and vulnerable,” she correctly assessed.
Amy added that “knowing the backlash and knowing the people that would turn their backs on you and not believe you, you are such a strong person.”
Admittedly, we’re unclear on why Amy and the girl spoke. It seems unlikely that any courtroom wants to hear about a relative of the defendant speaking to the victim ahead of trial.
However, she’s right when she says that coming forward takes tremendous courage. Particularly if, as many suspect, the girl is from a similarly insular, fundamentalist social circle where girls are second-class at best, and where consent is not really taught or understood.
‘I don’t understand …’
Like many, Amy expressed dismay at how Joseph reportedly confessed more than once to the crimes but then entered a plea of not guilty when it came to his arraignment.
“I don’t understand how you can admit to it and say you did it, and then backtrack and change it,” she expressed.
Amy continued: “And be like, ‘Well, I might have said that, but I didn’t mean that.’”
Obviously, many confessions are coerced out of people, some of whom may lack legal representation and may have been subjected to sleep deprivation.
Joseph reportedly first confessed to the child’s father and then, over the phone, to police. That’s not quite the same scenario as someone kept up all night and then at risk of losing their job if they show up late to work the next day, believing that they can leave an interrogation room if they just sign a false confession.
Some on social media have speculated that perhaps the child and her family are known to the broader Duggar family, and not only to Joseph.
If so, that might explain why Amy was allowed to speak with her. Were the Duggars unknown to the family except for Joseph, that could still happen, but would seem less likely.
As for the “not guilty” plea … one can only assume that either the reality of losing everything set in, or Joseph simply spoke with an attorney who (in all fairness, doing their job) told him the realities of prison.
Without knowing more, it’s hard to say whether his previous confessions can be effectively used against Joseph in court.
It seems likely that any defense attorney would move to preclude the prosecution from even mentioning them, let alone entering any recordings into evidence, playing them for the jury, or bringing testimony about the confessions from those who heard them.
It is just a shame that this girl will likely have to testify and even face cross-examination in court.
Amy Duggar: I Talked to Joseph’s Victim! She’s Really Brave! was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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The nameplate on Mustang Holding LLC’s downtown Anchorage office is seen on July 16, 2026. The company is the leaseholder and operator of the Southern Miluveach Unit, which has gone through ownership changes and financial troubles. Mustang Holding flared natural gas for five months without authorization to do so, state regulators say. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)
Alaska regulators on Wednesday assessed a $741,520 civil penalty against the operator of a small and trouble-plagued North Slope oil field for five months of unauthorized flaring of natural gas.
In Alaska, underground oil and gas fields are owned collectively by state residents. Wasting oil and gas without paying the state for it is equivalent to theft. Flaring — burning unused gas — is allowed for safety reasons and for early development of an oil or gas well, but only with state permission.
The Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission took the enforcement action against Mustang Holding LLC., the leaseholder at the Southern Miluveach Unit.
The unit, which holds a field and related infrastructure commonly called Mustang, lies on the western North Slope, just west of the ConocoPhillips-operated Kuparuk River Unit.
During initial production startup last year, Mustang Holding had permission to flare gas temporarily for well testing, but the company continued the practice after that permission expired, the AOGCC said in its order. It flared gas without authorization continuously from Nov. 1, 2025, to March 31, 2026, resulting in the burning of 112.3 million cubic feet of natural gas, the AOGCC said in its order.
As required by state law, the commission assessed a penalty equivalent to twice the market value of the burned-off natural gas, which is considered a wasted state resource, the order said.
The commission initially proposed the penalty on April 28. Mustang Holding objected, and an informal review was held in June, the order said. After that, the commission upheld its $741,520 penalty.
Mustang Holding admitted to flaring beyond the permitted period, which expired on Oct. 31. However, it argued that flaring beyond that date should not be penalized, according to the AOGCC order, which summarized the company’s defenses.
Mustang Holding argued that the flaring occurred before the site’s gas processing infrastructure was in operation “and therefore should not be treated the same as unauthorized flaring after the commencement of regular production,” the AOGCC order said. Mustang Holding also argued that the flaring “was neither willful nor commercially motivated,” the AOGCC order said.
An email to Mustang Holding’s representative was not returned, and he was not available by telephone.
The Southern Miluveach Unit, initially formed in 2011, has had a rocky history, with numerous changes in ownership and failures to meet financial obligations to the state.
A previous developer, Brooks Range Petroleum Co., defaulted on a loan provided by the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority. That prompted the state development agency to foreclose on the property in 2021.
Support from AIDEA included financing an access road to the property. In all, AIDEA had provided $72 million for the development, and the state provided another $22.5 million loan through the Department of Revenue.
In October 2023, an independent company called Finnex LLC acquired Mustang Holding, allowing AIDEA to divest itself of the project. Finnex is owned by another company, Houston-based Thyssen Petroleum USA.
Production at the Southern Miluveach Unit started at about the beginning of 2025, according to the most recent plan of development reviewed by the Alaska Division of Oil and Gas. Average daily oil production from January to October 2025 was about 500 barrels, according to the plan of development.
Mustang Holding has now installed facilities intended to enable it to handle daily production of 5,000 barrels, according to the plan of development.
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