This ain’t Texas, but we can sure dress like it is. Beyoncé’s country renaissance has spurred a widespread revival of Western style after releasing two country songs, “Texas Hold ‘Em” and “16 ...

What can you do to follow a once-in-a-lifetime century celebration for a country-western music icon? Get ready for Hank’s 101st birthday, of course. That’s the one and only singer/songwriter Hank ...

The country artist known simply as Ernest is a couple of cocktails deep on a recent afternoon in the rooftop garden of West Hollywood’s Soho House, a diamond pendant the size of a AA battery nestled ...

Ian Munsick was making his debut at bucket-list venue Red Rocks Amphitheatre just outside of Denver in June 2024 when he noticed someone step onstage. JoRee LaFrance, a member of the Apsáalooke/Crow ...

Few musical genres capture the art of telling a sad story beautifully quite like classic country and Western songs. This storytelling music comes from places where life is hard: working-class Southern ...

In the world of music, Beyoncé stands as a monumental figure, influencing genres far beyond her usual domain. Among her unexpected impacts is shining a spotlight on and boosting other Black artists — ...

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, ...

One of the main physical symbols of country music is, by no doubt of the imagination the cowboy hat. The cowboy hat is such a simple item, yet seemingly holds the spirit of America on its rim. It ...

"Country is a state of mind," sang Tom T. Hall, and right now, it's as hot as jalapeños on Long Island. There are two local country radio stations (103.1, — The Wolf (WWWF/103.1 FM) and My Country ...

Country music and Western movies have always been tied together, so it's no big surprise that some of your favorite country singers have starred in some beloved Western films. Which country singers ...

Today’s country music genre had its beginnings in the 1920s with the popularization of two types of music: rural white bluegrass or “hillbilly” music and “western” or “cowboy” music. The two styles ...

It began, Jesse Huddleston of Moline recalls, as “just some people who would get together in their backyards. They called it folk tunes back then.” Fifty years later, the Mississippi Valley Country & ...