It's a great day when your favorite artist releases a new record. But what if they released seven new records at once, full ...

It’s the "Tracks II" album with the most songs that have previously seen the light of day, with the Elvis Presley rewrite ...

Nineties country hitmaker Chely Wright came out as gay in 2010, and the same year, she put out her Lifted Off the Ground ...

Irish musician CMAT on the viral dance to her hit "Take a Sexy Picture of Me," her upcoming album 'Euro-Country,' and more ...

Instead of his signature streetwear look, the Roc-A-Fella Records co-founder, 55, traded in his sneakers for cowboy boots ...

More than a year after its release, “Cowboy Carter” is still sparking conversations and upending perceptions about genre, ...

Roots artists with more defined country leanings could join "traditional" country artists with connections to the Western, Western Swing and Outlaw country scenes to create an impressively diverse ...

The Academy set out to promote country music in the western 13 states and to support artists. An official board of directors was formed in 1965. A year later, ...

The 20 tracks on the album document a kind of West that doesn’t show up much in Nashville’s country Western vision. Munsick wrote, performed on and co-produced most of the songs on Eagle ...

For 55 years, Benson and his band have put the “W” back in “Country & Western,” playing Western swing, the up-tempo, fiddle-and-pedal-steel spiked dance music that artists like George ...

She also proved that popular music in the 21st century can feature the expert, engaging storytelling that made country and western music such a hit in the early 20th century, too. 3.

In recent days we've seen Black people erased from the conversation around country and rock music. In the wake of Beyonce's electrifying CMA performance with the Dixie Chicks, it seems as if the ...