What is country western music? Who decides what is real country and what is not? That question arose after Beyoncé won Album ...

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While their home country of Mali has experienced plenty of turmoil in recent years, Songhoy Blues remain resolute and defiant in their mission to spread joy.

"I'm always trying to find the best sound that (singers) can make," said Florentine Opera music director Francesco Milioto.

Whether through the fiery passion of 'Stay,' or the heartbreak of 'Red Dirt on Mars,' Angie K brings a unique voice to Country music ...

Technically the century began in 2001, but we reached back to 2000 to summarize this list of top songs. Alan Jackson is the ...

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan—Trad Album” was all it said on the cover. “I was always browsing, and I would spend a lot of afternoons after lunch there,” Mullan says. “I knew that would be the ultimate find—a ...

Tosches plumbs the ancient origins of country music. “Its roots,” he argues ... Country features a graphic, unsettling chapter on Western Swing artist Spade Cooley, who, in 1961, forced his fourteen ...

Country and Western music will ring out again at the Brownfield Community Center when the Dawson Opry takes the stage at 6 p.m. Feb. 15. Local and regional artists will be featured. Admission is $5.

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