He was falling apart. Brilliant and tortured, devout and driven, Johnny Cash had been discovered in the Memphis of Sun Records–the musical milieu that gave America Elvis Presley–and had built a career ...

A superstar collaboration leads the new country songs this week, while a hitmaking traditionalist has one of the best new albums. Jon Pardi and Luke Bryan's new duet may highlight this week's new ...

You can go in many directions when compiling a list of the all-time best country music songs. Which criteria do you use? Record sales, most streamed, most googled, number of weeks on the country ...

The 50 best country songs from the 1970s shine a light on changes within the genre. Merle Haggard opened the decade with a song rooted in country traditionalism, but 10 years later, artists including ...

However culture-shifting history proves Beyoncé’s new album, Cowboy Carter, to be, it’s not unprecedented. For generations, artists have blurred the supposed lines between country music, R&B, soul, ...

When Beyoncé made the surprise announcement back in February, during the Super Bowl, that her forthcoming album would be a country album, it was immediately met with praise and excitement, validating ...

Beyoncé is part of a great tradition of artists from the pop, R&B and rock worlds stepping into the realm of country music, whether it’s for one record or, in occasional instances, a whole career ...

This is an especially great year for country music fans, with hundreds of concerts happening across the country and beyond (in Canada, Europe, Australia and South Africa, just to name some of the ...

The world of country music is vast and extremely popular, and yet so much of it tends to go unnoticed in indie/alternative rock circles. Occasionally artists cross over — like Jason Isbell, Kacey ...

Charlie Robison, the Texas singer-songwriter whose rootsy anthems made the country charts until he was forced to retire after complications from a medical procedure left him unable to sing, died ...