Country

In the 1960s 'The Bakersfield Sound' was as famous in Country Music circles as it's Nashville equivalent. It's chief exponents Buck Owens and Merle Haggard became two of the most successful artists of the decade, without ever setting foot in a Nashville...

In the 1950s Oklahoma-born Jean Shepard blazed a train for women in Country music like few others before her. In her teens she organised her own all-female hillbilly band, which brought her to the attention of 1950s country superstar Hank Thompson, who...

In the 1940s, fiddler and guitarist Glen Neaves formed the Virginia Mountain Boys, and the band performed in varying lineups through the next three decades. In many cases, the members of the band were the first in their families to play bluegrass rather...

In the 1940s, fiddler and guitarist Glen Neaves formed the Virginia Mountain Boys, and the band performed in varying lineups through the next three decades. In many cases, the members of the band were the first in their families to play bluegrass rather...

In terms of instrumentation, repertoire and pioneering spirit, Seldom Scene opened all kinds of new doors for bluegrass. This 1975 double-LP is a progressive-bluegrass classic: brilliant spins on City of New Orleans; It's All Over Now, Baby Blue, and If...

In signing up for CMTs competition show CAN YOU DUET back in 2008, Rory Feek wanted one thing: For the world to know his wife Joey, and the power of her voice. With the new album HIS AND HERS, listeners will get fully acquainted with both Joey and Rory...

In Session is the third country / pop album of the Crazy Rockers. The five members of the band are very musically and make a perfect American country sound. On this album "In Session" are 15 beautiful songs alternating between up-tempo songs and...

In partnership with Absolute Radio's premiere Country music radio station, this collection showcases 63 huge tracks by some of the genre's most well-loved stars that feature on the playlists at Absolute Radio Country. Classic Country heavyweights Dolly...

In memoriam - forty-five years ago country music stars died in plane crash. Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins planned to fly to Nashville in a Piper Comanche. The weather was turbulent, and thunderstorms pelted the area. The plane crashed...

In May, Scotty McCreery won Season Ten of AMERICAN IDOL, becoming the youngest male winner in the shows nine-year history. He is now set to release his debut album, CLEAR AS DAY for Mercury Nashville / 19 Recordings / Interscope and has already made...

In many ways, the Roy Rogers story is one of archetypal rags-to-riches, from the struggles of the Great Depression, to the film and television superstardom of the 1940s and 1950s. The music he made, first with The Sons Of The Pioneers, and then in his...

In just three remarkable solo albums, Margo Price has cemented herself as a force in American music and a generational talent. On her fourth full-length Strays, recorded in Topanga Canyon and produced by Jonathan Wilson, the singer/songwriter presents a...