The icons of classic country music, like Waylon Jennings, Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Patsy Cline, Willie ...

I was digging through a bargain table in a bookstore 30 years or so ago and came across William Bunch’s “Jukebox America.” It ...

Do yourself a favor. Take out your pocket jukebox, locate a Diane Warren playlist. (You’ll have your pick. The one for Apple Music’s Songwriters series has 62 songs. Spotify’s “Written by Diane Warren ...

There has always been grit in Ashley McBryde’s music but on ‘Wild,' that grit hardens into something sharper, louder, and more revealing than anything she’s released before. This isn’t just another ...

For every love song that blasts across the airwaves, an equal amount of tunes were written about the less sunny side of love. What makes for the best breakup song? Well, since the beginning of time, ...

When the term “Americana” was included in the prestigious Merriam-Webster dictionary in 2011, Americana Music Association executive director Jed Hilly joked that they would be selling T-shirts ...

It might sound crazy, but one of the most enduring country songs of all time never reached No. 1 on the charts. Patsy Cline's ...

Patsy Cline is one of the most ubiquitous names in country music history. But it wasn't the name she was born with.

When in 1992 k.d. lang announced she was lesbian in The Advocate and the next year appeared on a haute, Herb Ritts-shot Vanity Fair cover with Cindy Crawford, mainstream media considered these deeds ...

Kellie Pickler did not just make a rare appearance on Monday; she did it in front of the entire country on “American Idol.” The country music star, who competed on Season 5 of the reality show, ...