The country music world was rocked Thursday by the news that beloved singer-songwriter Brett James was killed in a small plane crash in North Carolina. James, a Grammy-winning songwriter and a member ...

Love it or hate it, there is no denying that the country has gone country. Beyoncé is touring on her Grammy-winning country album, “Cowboy Carter.” All races and ages are line dancing to ...

Country music sure has been busy since the year 2000. The past 25 years have been filled with some very high highs and some truly devastating lows for the genre (and the world at large). In between, ...

Some of the best country music tells stories — stories that define and connect generations, geographic regions, and subsections of American culture. It captures the best of American life. As digital ...

“Cowboy Carter” is an extension of the pop superstar’s exploration of how Black creativity fuels all corners of popular music. She’s embracing the music, not the industry. Credit...Matt Williams ...

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Francesca Royster, author of Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions, about how Black artists have contributed to country music and the barriers they've faced.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Tony Brown, June Carter Cash and Kenny Chesney are 2025’s class of inductees to the Country Music Hall of Fame, announced the Country Music Association (CMA). Country Music ...

You know those people who say they listen to everything but country music? Even they were streaming and spinning many of these albums this year. Country had an undeniable moment in 2023, one informed ...

The greatest lie country music ever told was convincing the world that it is white. That hillbilly music turned white at the turn of the 20th century. And that Black musicians who created this music, ...

However culture-shifting history proves Beyoncé’s new album, Cowboy Carter, to be, it’s not unprecedented. For generations, artists have blurred the supposed lines between country music, R&B, soul, ...