Loretta Lynn, Willie Nelson, and Garth Brooks are among the top country artists who have reshaped the genre over their ...

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On the recording they made for their 1956 debut LP Tragic Songs of Life (later a country hit), Ira and Charlie Louvin ...

Country music legend Johnny Cash was a true original. A lover of classic Southern comfort food, one of the Man in Black's ...

There's at least one artist that we know of who penned an entire song about Johnny Cash's addictions: Kris Kristofferson.

Closing out the set of four river-based murder ballads is none other than Chris Knight’s sprawling, 7-minute epic tells the harrowing journey of a man taking revenge for his brother’s murder. Easily ...