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 ...

Courtesy: Budd Butcher/U.S. Air Force From Merle Haggard’s “Fightin’ Side of Me” to Toby Keith’s “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue,” country music is often associated with ...

The country music world has lost some special performers across the past year or so. More than 30 artists or influential figures died in 2024, and a handful of legendary acts also announced that ...