Black musicians have always had a place in the history of country music. Black musicians have always had a place in the history of country music, despite the music industry's push to label white folk ...

Column topics wander in and out of my mind like moths at a light in the summertime. They flit through catching the brightness momentarily then disappear into the dark sometimes not to emerge. I’ve got ...

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 ...

“Country & Western Hit Parade: Dim Lights, Thick Smoke and Hillbilly Music” is the second half of an invaluable album project from Bear Family Records that enables pop fans to step back in time to ...

Dwight Yoakam brings swagger back to country music and claims the term "hillbilly." Dwight Yoakam released “Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.” in 1986, bringing a rock and roll swagger and hard-hitting ...