Few musical genres capture the art of telling a sad story beautifully quite like classic country and Western songs. This storytelling music comes from places where life is hard: working-class Southern ...

Always heavily influenced by Motown and the American blues and rock of Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Buddy Holly, and Ray Charles, as they made their big jump from the smaller stages in ...

Ray Charles enjoyed tremendous commercial success in country music in the mid-'80s with songs from his Friendship album, but his most long-lasting influence on the genre came 20 years earlier. The ...

You know your vocals and artistry have true power when you can bring football players to tears singing the national anthem, and that’s just what Chris Stapleton did when he crushed his performance of ...

Toby Keith was one of the Nineties and 2000s most charismatic country artists, known for songs that were heavy in humor, romance, and patriotism — even when they were mixed with a heavy dose of post-9 ...

The most-played songs of 2021 are likely on this list of the Top 40 country songs for April 2021. Luke Combs, Thomas Rhett, Miranda Lambert and Jake Owen are among the stars you can count on to hear ...

High school football season is upon us, and you need a playlist. How about throwing it back to '90s country in 2025? There is something about a Friday night under the big lights, hanging with friends ...

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, ...

Jack Craig will be back at the senior center on Wednesday, April 12 at 2 p.m. for his program “You Pick ‘Em” Country & Western songs. Early hillbilly and cowboy songs led us to country stars including ...