The New Year's Eve performance came while Nashville hosted its own country-focused celebration, Big Bash, featuring Jason ...

These three country songs all came out in the year 1961, and will always be considered country music classics.

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Janson’s pivot is only one example of the overt MAGA-fication of Music Row, which began to reveal itself immediately ...

These excellent country songs from 1977 are artful examples of honky-tonk storytelling that might have been too honest for ...

From beach tans to redneck reindeer, these country Christmas songs celebrate the holidays with a little twang — and a whole ...

Sad country music reigns supreme no matter what time of the year it is... Even during the holidays, I simply cannot get ...

From a song by a certified superstar that came out in the very first week of January to breakthroughs from lesser-known indie acts, here are selections from NPR Music's list of the best songs of 2025.

A country music pioneer who collaborated with Bruce Springsteen has died. Joe Ely died Monday at his home in New Mexico after a battle with Lewy Body Dementia, Parkinson’s disease and pneumonia, his ...

The top country albums of 2025 are so different from each other that it seems like the only thing they have in common is that they fall under the same umbrella genre. But there is one thing these ...

It was another banner year for country artists in 2025. In addition to Moroney and Langley, there was a new class of artists all of whom experienced their first major flushes of success, including ...

Nearly every pop music holiday song written in the past 80 years owes at least some of its DNA to one Christmas tune in particular: "White Christmas," written by Irving Berlin and sung by Bing Crosby, ...