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

LeAnn Rimes made "Blue" a country music classic. But the song's history stretches back long before the singer recorded it. The heartbreak ballad was reportedly written with another legendary voice in ...

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 ...

At the White Horse in Austin, Dylan Earl is three sheets to the wind, having just played a sweaty set to a bunch of line-dancing, shit-kicking Texans at the Gar Hole Records x Western AF party. South ...

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 ...

Fate was definitely at play when Jessica Murray met Seth James Walker at Antone’s Club in Austin. She was singing in Cory Morrow’s band, and Seth’s band was the opening act that night, playing Texas ...

triple j launched its Like A Version segment in 2004. More than 800 covers have been recorded since that time, with artists from all over the world visiting the triple j studios to bash out a version ...