Country music's top songs of 2020 show where the genre is headed, and for fans of a more traditional country sound, this could be a good thing. "Stick That in Your Country Song" sneers at an industry ...

Follow this section to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings The distinctive American music has always reflected the complicated lives ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. The way we listen to and understand music has continued to ...

Country music is known for its icons, from Merle Haggard to Willie Nelson to Loretta Lynn and many more. As soon as you hear their names, you can “hear” their one-of-a-kind voices, individual styles ...

Our critic hit the road to talk with Jelly Roll, Shaboozey, Tanner Adell and other artists to understand why country music was inescapable in 2024. Jelly RollCredit...Kristian Thacker for The New York ...

Billboard counts down the best country acts of the past (almost) 100 years. Ever since Ralph Peer held his famous recording sessions in Bristol, Tennessee in the late 1920s with such acts as Ernest ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Country music is enjoying a huge resurgence this year—and it's also ...

The story of outlaw country starts in very different places, depending on who is spinning the yarn. Historian Joe Nick Patoski wonders if it all started in 1972, after Willie Nelson’s home outside ...

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, ...

While not every successful country singer releases Christian songs, those who've ignored Christian values haven't gotten very far. Some, like Josh Turner and Randy Travis, are able to weave their ...

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 ...

From Taylor Swift to Johnny Cash, here are 50 of the best country love songs of all time. Over the course of the genre’s history, country music has had more than its share of sweet, romantic moments.