The Whitehall Ledger - Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana

When John King takes the stage Thursday, August 16 at the Rodeo Grounds in Whitehall he will be in a comfortable setting.

The rising country music star grew in what he called a tiny town in northeast Georgia, nearly identical in population to Whitehall.

"It always feels like home to me when I get to play those smaller towns. The communities are tighter...It always makes me homesick and want to go visit everybody in Georgia," he said.

Currently on a nationwide tour, King first gained notoriety in 2014 with the Top 40 hit "Tonight Tonight", a song later used to highlight CBS's network's Thu...