The writer behind one of the most successful worship songs in the last decade was this close to releasing a 20-song country ...

The Fisk Jubilee Singers’ rendition of the classic spiritual, “Swing Low Sweet Chariot” became the first commercially viable recording of its kind in 1909. This feat became something country ...

Love it or hate it, there is no denying that the country has gone country. Beyoncé is touring on her Grammy-winning country album, “Cowboy Carter.” All races and ages are line dancing to ...

Country music has always been three chords and the truth. But the way those truths and chords get delivered to and consumed by country music fans has changed, thus changing the actual recording of the ...

What makes a truly great dark country song? Well, it helps if there's a death involved, and country music is full of classic, chilling murder ballads that fit the bill. But in order to be truly dark, ...

Country songs about dads watching their daughters getting married and — as Hank Hill once put it — “feeling emotions” constitute a mini-genre at this point, from Heartland’s “I Loved Her First” to ...