and the Judds help country music stay true to its roots. Witness both the rise of superstar Garth Brooks and the return of an aging Johnny Cash to the industry he helped create. Television ...

which made it the longest-running annual music awards program on network television. Today, the Country Music Association is comprised of more than 6,000 industry professional members. Each year ...

A true prodigy, she could read music and play the ... and a popular television variety series, Mandrell was arguably the biggest female star in country music in the late 1970s and early 1980s.