Coe was part of country's outlaw movement in the '70s and was widely criticized for releasing songs that used racist slurs ...

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 ...

Ella Langley's breakout Stagecoach set showed her rare cross-generational appeal even as fans across the festival disagreed ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. The way we listen to and understand music has continued to ...

Fifty-something years after Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver, Tompall Glaser Jerry Jeff Walker and a whole host of others set up the framework for outlaw country, the movement is alive ...

Some of the best country music tells stories — stories that define and connect generations, geographic regions, and subsections of American culture. It captures the best of American life. As digital ...

The growing popularity of Black country artists, spurred in part by Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter,” has sparked a conversation around the history of the genre and the past and present racial tensions ...

To get a sense of how wide the country music landscape — and the divides within it — are in 2025, consider the varied reactions to an announcement the Recording Academy made in June: The best country ...

It has been a heartbreaking year for country music fans with nearly 20 stars dying already. And April was the toughest month yet with five country music perfomers losing their lives. The following is ...

Lynn was born on April 14, 1932 in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky Terry Wyatt/Getty Country music icon Loretta Lynn's successful career was marked with tragedy Married at 15, Lynn raised six children while ...