Welcome to this year’s exciting edition of “Watching a Red-Faced Music Critic Paint Himself Into a Corner!” The critic in question is, well, me. The corner I have painted myself into is the result of ...

On this day (February 19) in 1943, Bobby Emmons was born in Corinth, Mississippi. By the late 1950s, his skills on the keys made him an in-demand player. Later, he became a member of the Memphis Boys, ...

Robert Duvall and Waylon Jennings had a special bond. The outlaw country star’s son Shooter Jennings reflected on it in the immediate aftermath of Duvall’s passing this week. “Oh man! Robert Duvall ...

Waylon Jennings died in 2002 at the age of 64, one year after being inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Throughout his career, he remained an honest artist fighting to record his music the ...

With its roots in the '60s and the honky-tonk style forged by Hank Williams, outlaw country music began to snowball in the early '70s as more and more artists bristled against the genre's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jim McBride, who was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2017, died Tuesday after a fall. He was 78. (Rick ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame songwriter Jim McBride, known for writing tracks including Alan Jackson‘s “Chattahoochee” and ...

A case we followed here in 2022 has found its way to the Alabama Supreme Court. AL.com’s Sarah Whites-Koditschek reports that the question is whether Alabama Police officers can demand to see people’s ...

When Turnpike Troubadours reunited in 2021 following an uncertain hiatus, they turned to Shooter Jennings to guide them in recording their first album in six years, 2023’s A Cat in the Rain. The ...