Some country ballads just hit the spot, like these baby boomer-beloved 1963 tunes that still sound incredible today.

Stacker took a look at the winners for Video of the Year at every Academy of Country Music Awards since the award was introduced in 1984.

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Discovered by Gene Autry, Jimmy Wakely recorded multiple country albums and starred in dozens of Western B-movies.

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Where do the best country music artists get their start? Many began singing or learning to play an instrument as children, devoting their attention early on to the popular music of the rural South.

There’s nothing nobler in popular music than being a one-hit wonder. Let the Madonnas, Drakes, and Mariah Careys of the world ...

Between the choruses, the guitar rolls like falling droplets. A sweet yet somehow poignant voice turns the pain of heartbreak into a danceable rhythm. Does that music sound familiar to you? That ...

Butoh pioneer Mitsuyo Uesugi on leaving ballet to study with Kazuo Ohno, and why she never expected butoh to become a global ...

Before the British handed over power, a call on the radio asked Ugandan musicians to compose songs for Independence. Mugula ...

Reseda Spleen is the 1996 debut album from L.A. psych-pop outfit Ventilator, and was largely recorded at home by Matt Devine ...