When the fiddle appears in a country song, it is undeniably the loudest and most piercing instrument on the track. It can whine, it can hiss, it can do many things the guitar can and cannot. One might ...

2025 was a standout year for country music, delivering a rich set of albums that celebrate both the genre’s deep roots & its ...

In 2024, the most memorable country albums were the projects that fell on one end or the other of a stylistic extreme. Some of the biggest splashes came from young-gun traditionalists, who released ...

Alabama is arguably the most successful band in country music history. And on this day in 1984, the group saw one of what would become their career-defining songs top the country charts. “If You’re ...