Her determination in the face of adversity is remembered just as much as the songs she left behind.

See him in action with it, playing his classic song After Midnight, at Paradise Studios in LA, 1979, with Leon Russell. J.J.'s wife Christine Lakeland and session ace Bill Boatman are also on guitar.

Walter Haynes, the prolific session musician who gained a reputation as “Patsy Cline’s steel guitar player,” died on this day (Jan 1.) in 2009. He was 80 years old and living in Bullard, Texas, ...

As a natural storyteller, Brandy Clark has an incredible memory for lyrics. Clark’s love of lyrics takes its roots from learning the craft of writing Country songs, which she feels is “some of the ...

A few songs into Sierra Ferrell’s mesmerizing two-hour set at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, CO, Thursday night, my 15-year-old daughter turned to me and asked, surely loud enough that people for ...

Billboard's staff picks the greatest country songs of the past century that have made us love, cry, drink and dance. In many ways, country music tells the story of America. There is the celebration of ...

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 ...

WHAT MAKES A great country song? It tells a story. It draws a line. It has a twang you can feel down to the soles of your feet. Some get mad, some get weepy, some just get you down the road. And these ...

If you’re a woman with an extremely low voice, this collection of the country songs for low female voices is perfect for you. Having a low voice is very rare among women, so you can consider yourself ...

Alt-country is such a hard genre to define that the wonderful music magazine devoted to it proclaimed itself the “alternative-country (whatever that is) bi-monthly.” For our best alt-country albums ...

Robbins' credits with Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, Neil Young, Kenny Rogers, Charlie Rich, k.d. lang, Miranda Lambert, Sturgill Simpson, Dolly Parton and hundreds of others may make him one of the ...