Will Beyoncé's first country album be the one that earns her the pinnacle album of the year award at the Grammys? Experts ...

This week's crop of new songs features music from Hailey Whitters, Lanie Gardner, Sierra Hull, Willow Avalon and more.

Country music is not—and never was—one style of music. It has always been a mixture of many styles, springing from many roots and sprouting many new branches to create a complicated chorus of ...

The other is called the Academy of Country Music, and it was formed in 1964 as the Country & Western Music Academy with the participation of West Coast musicians. Held in similar regard ...

and had fallen in love with Western music. I’ve always had a problem with what I call “the geographical imperative.” In other words, you had to be from Alabama to sing country music.