But Black Americans have long struggled to be embraced by the larger country music community. In 2019, Billboard removed Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” from its Hot Country Songs for not ...

The ‘Train Beat’ is synonymous with country music and, as the name suggests, it mimics an old-time steam train. This drill is for the picking hand. You can either hold a chord or just mute the ...

Ozzie Smith turns 70 today. The backflippin', gold glove winnin', Hall of Fame shortstop from Mobile is 7-0. In a sport where the most athletically skilled defensive players are often shortstops ...

This year, 2024, brought the deaths of several artists and beloved members of the country music genre. Although they may be gone, their legacies continue to loom large and will impact and shape ...

So on the one hand, it makes sense that this consequential year for our democracy was the best year for music this decade—by far. But I just can’t bring myself to attribute the music of 2024 to our ...

Sabrina Carpenter, Kendrick Lamar, The Cure, Richard Thompson, Phish, Miranda Lambert and so many other artists released ...

Country music is a genre known for hitting you right in the feelings, and that's true both in terms of the lyrics and in the real lives of the people who write and perform these often sad songs.

The top country songs of 2024 prove that country music — especially traditional country music — is in very good hands. A full 25 percent of the Top 40 songs from this year are by artists who ...

Icons and a-listers, retro bangers and psychedelic party-starters, firebrands, punks and alt.rockers - they’re all here ...

He hit Music City at the right time ... like what would happen if Robert Crumb created an outlaw country antihero for an early 70s issue of Zap Comix. The next album, 1974’s Living and Dying ...

A man wanted in Texas was charged in connection with a carjacking and killing of a 70-year-old man in Georgia, according to officials. Jaylen Mosley, 19, who has warrants out for his arrest in ...