Matt Damon was not about to lose the biggest opportunity of his acting career because of a lousy southern accent. The Academy ...

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, ...

Although it's a quintessentially American genre, country music isn't just the domain of U.S. artists. As it turns out, Canadians have made a significant impact on the genre's evolution, especially in ...

Billy Currington's "People Are Crazy" was written by Troy Jones and Bobby Braddock. Currington released the tune in March of 2009, as the second single from his Little Bit of Everything album. It ...

In 2020, singer-songwriter Waylon Payne released his long-awaited sophomore album, Blue Eyes, the Harlot, the Queer, the Pusher & Me-- a project 16 years in the making. His first album, The Drifter, ...

The explosion of emerging talent that came onto the country music scene in the 1990s included a wave of impressive new bands. For decades, the genre had been overwhelmingly dominated by solo acts — ...

To say Tanya Tucker is a trailblazer in country music would be an understatement. Since making her debut in 1972 with the now-classic track "Delta Dawn," the singer has released an impressive 25 ...

Mary Chapin Carpenter is one of the most prolific singer-songwriters in country music. Beginning with her debut album in 1987, she has made album after album of music that swings between folk, ...

Portland, Ore.-bred bluegrass / folk band Fruition owe their existence to small gigs -- and by that, we mean busking on sidewalks all over America. "All we did was busk," vocalist, guitarist and ...

Scotty McCreery wrote his single “Five More Minutes” with Frank Rogers and Monty Criswell shortly after the death of his grandfather in January of 2015 and began performing it live later that year; ...

Over the course of a massively successful, two decade-long career, Rascal Flatts have become an essential part of the soundtrack to country music fans' lives. Since 2000, the trio has dropped 11 ...

When Travis Tritt wrote "Here's a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)," which he released as a single in 1991, he was still dreaming of being a country star, while working a regular job and mourning the ...