Defining the alt.country boom of the late 80s and 90s, the best alt.country musicians stood apart with an almost punk-like approach to tradition. The term alt.country (sometimes dubbed ...

Country music and football go together like ice cream and chocolate syrup, popcorn and the movies or peanut butter and jelly. The ingredients are nice on their own but reach their full potential ...

where he resigned from the Army and vowed to make it in the industry — and that he did. He worked scrappy night shifts as a janitor at Columbia Studios, and gave the country music stars demo ...

But the project helped spur other country stars, like Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings, to embark on their own experimentations ... able to make some sort of a living from writing songs ...

From 'Sunday Morning Coming Down' and 'Help Me Make It Through the Night' to 'Feeling Mortal,' Variety picks 10 Kris ...

my soul's in your hands." The song was Kristofferson's only solo country hit, reaching No. 1 in 1973. "Me and Bobby McGee" became one of the most iconic songs of the 1970s. Kristofferson co-wrote ...

The 2024 Country Music Awards nominations are out — and ... than anyone and never won album of the year. So even by your own metrics, that doesn't work," Jay-Z said during his acceptance speech ...

A handful of familiar faces help make the Top 5 of October's Top 40 Country Songs, but one famous face is missing. 1. Shaboozey, “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” — Could this be the greatest debut cou ...

The track was written by Larry Gottlieb, Angelo Petraglia and singer-songwriter Kim Richey, who had just started to scrape the bottom of the country charts with her own ... to make it in Music ...

They spewed their misogynoir-laced criticism that the Houston native was corrupting the sanctity of the genre — and the Country Music Association ... harshest sting. Her own husband Jay-Z ...

v=ICvUaV6ZQkU is a recording of The Rabbit from 1984, with a musical selection and understated wit that is all his own. As traditional country music fan and column reader/contributor Douglas Brown ...