The Western genre had its last hurrah in 1969, producing classics like True Grit and The Wild Bunch, and cementing the year ...
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Who knows what the world of country music would sound like today if it weren't for these three songs from 1969?
Today, the album is hailed as an ambitious landmark work in the country-rock movement, but it was a commercial failure in its ...
Who doesn’t love a good cover? Like any genre with roots steeped in tradition, country music is no stranger to covers. From Chris Stapleton redefining David Allan Coe’s “Tennessee Whiskey” to a new ...
Remembering the hit songs of Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Merle Haggard, and Loretta Lynn is a fairly easy feat if you are a tried-and-true country music fan. But even if you are a tried-and-true ...
If a modern person were to guess the most commercially successful songs of 1969, they’d be likely to assume that “Sweet Caroline” by Neil Diamond would be near the top and The Beatles, The Rolling ...
One of the late 1970s' most iconic disco anthems once charted as a country song in 1969, recorded by one of the genre’s original outlaws. Jennings' crowning achievement with the song came after he had ...
Hardy and Ernest debut at No. 1 on the iTunes Top Songs chart with “Bro Country,” the top new release as the latest tracking week begins. LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - FEBRUARY 11: HARDY performs onstage during ...
After we took a look at some downright shocking George Strait songs that never went #1 earlier in the week, it got me thinking of more surprising country songs that never graced the top of the charts ...
NEW YORK -- Jeannie Seely, the soulful country music singer behind such standards like "Don't Touch Me," has died. She was 85. Her publicist, Don Murry Grubbs, said she died Friday after succumbing to ...