As we all know, country music is rooted in “three chords and the truth.” That’s right, the genre prides itself on both simplicity and honesty. But that doesn’t mean every country ever produced is ...

Some tend to think that musicians need amplified, distorted guitars and driving beats to transform their anger into songs. That’s not the case, though. Songwriters have been turning their righteous ...

Music historians believe the country music genre originated in the 1910s with Southern Appalachian fiddlers; however, it wasn’t until the following decade that artists started pressing commercial ...

These songs represent the long-standing tension that exists between rural areas and small towns on the one hand, and denser urban and suburban communities on the other. Buck Owens wasn't exactly ...