Country & Western Music

The Nashville we know today is a glitzy big business characterized by entertainment lawyers, social media strategies, and buff, shiny entertainers ...

'It seems I've done most things I wanted to do, but of all things, I think I most enjoy finding good songs and recording them. There are so many so...

Country music's debt to African American music has long been recognized. Black musicians have helped to shape the styles of many of the most import...

Winner, Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize, Texas State Historical Association, 2014During the early 1970s, the nations turbulence was keenly refle...

Peter Guralnick, dean of rock-and roll-storytellers, writes in the introduction to Johnnys Cash & Charleys Pride, Peter Cooper has always been ...

In the 1960s and 1970s, Randy Wood was a forerunner in the vintage instrument industry. Known as the instrument repairman to the stars, the list of...

Before he achieved his dream of being an internationally known rock personality, Ryan Adams had a band in Raleigh, North Carolina. Whiskeytown led ...

Stories and songs from a childhood spent in a vanished world of revivals and road shows   Anita Faye Garner grew up in the South-just about every c...

The untold story of Chicagos pivotal role as a country and folk music capital.   Chicago is revered as a musical breeding ground, having launched m...

Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author with a lively, engaging, and often wise (The New York Times Book Review) voice, offe...

From a hard-rocking life fueled by substance abuse to a hope-filled life of freedom and joy--this is music star Zach Williams's bold and vulnerable...

Behind the glamour and the crowds. Beyond the movies and the records.Apart from all who knew him, wanted to know him, or just wanted to be near him...