Thirty-seven years ago today, Randy Travis was at the top of the country chart with one of the best love songs ever written.

Kentucky Wesleyan College’s radio station, WKWC 90.3, has been nominated for Radio Station of the Year, and WKWC Manager and Instructor of Communications Derik Hancock has been nominated for Radio ...

With the sales from Man Against Machine, Brooks officially dethroned Elvis Presley to become the best-selling solo album ...

Country music has long been billed as three chords and the truth. And while those three chords have evolved over the years, ...

When most people think of outlaw country, they think of Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, David Allan Coe and Merle Haggard.

Country music's Christmas songs are like side dishes at your fancy holiday dinner. Most country fans reach for the standards, but a few will always prefer those specialty treats. Others you may simply ...

This year in country music was all about artists discovering ways to innovate old forms and traditions. In some cases, like Eric Church’s Evangeline vs. the Machine and Carter Faith’s stunning debut ...

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, ...

Country music has a rich history of incorporating themes of rowdy Saturday nights, evenings spent drinking in bars, heartbreak anthems, cheatin’ songs and romantic odes, but the genre’s artists have ...

When Dolly Parton released “Jolene” in 1973, she probably didn’t expect her tale of a red-haired beauty at the local bank flirting with her husband, Carl, to become one of the most-covered country ...

IT SOUNDS LIKE a typical country tune, for a few seconds at least. “Country Girls Make Do” opens with a toe-tapping beat and twangy strains of fiddles and guitar. You expect a song about whisky or ...

The country music world was rocked by Raul Malo’s cancer revelation last week, but you have to give him and his group, The Mavericks, credit for being as tough and inspiring as they come. For instance ...