The spotlights begin to fade on a stage in Floyd, not far from the misty Blue Ridge Mountains in southwest Virginia, and a banjo begins to play. Gradually, the strings pick out the notes to an ...

On Friday, Oct. 17, Ella Langley released a new song called “Choosin’ Texas,” a track about Texans loyalty to their state. In the song, Langley tells a story about how she couldn’t keep her man, a ...

A recently discovered performance of “Thompson’s Old Gray Mule” is now labeled as the oldest country recording in existence. Who sang the decades-old track? Turns out it was Louis Vasnier, a Black ...

Country is one of the hottest genres in music, and now labels outside of the old Nashville system have come to town to cash in. By Ethan Millman Music Editor The coastal wave comes as country has ...

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Francesca Royster, author of Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions, about how Black artists have contributed to country music and the barriers they've faced.