Country Music

In the Fall of 2016, a Raleigh, NC bar and music venue called the Pour House surged past midnight with bluegrass and old-time music from a multi-artist…

America’s out-of-control Coronavirus pandemic has claimed the life of another music legend, the iconic country singer Charley Pride. One of the great song…

Various panels in recent months have taken 2020's surging Black Lives Matter movement into the trenches of Americana and Country music to define possible…

Country songwriter Tyler Childers is selective about speaking for the public record, and when he does, he lands his punches, leaving people astonished and…

The genre name Country & Western music was retired, at least by the Billboard magazine charts, in 1962. The term became an anachronism, so over the years…

A quick glance at the year-end lists of Best Country Albums of 2019 strikes me as having a bunch of quality records from the soul side (Yola), the…

Joe Newberry is a modern day avatar of country music’s oldest traditions. The 62-year-old musician - a veteran of A Prairie Home Companion and other…

In 2018, the podcast Cocaine & Rhinestones became a hit in the roots music community with its idiosyncratic dives into the lives and vices of iconic…

Songwriters don’t tend to think in chapters, and it’s rare that their characters appear in more than a single song. But Erin Enderlin builds a novelistic…

In 1996, I sat transfixed through a six-hour docu-series on TBS called America's Music: The Roots Of Country. I'd become a fan of country and bluegrass,…