Varnado is hailed as the most awarded fiddle player in the United States. He was the Fiddle Player of the Year in 2017, as determined by the Academy of Country Music. The 55-year-old Port Arthur ...

Phoebe Bridgers has covered plenty of great singers and songs, from Tom Waits and John Prine to Gillian Welch and Sheryl Crow. Here we look at some of her best.

Death is always tragic, particularly when it occurs on a person's date of birth, and there are many famous people who have ...

Marianne Faithfull died Thursday in London at age 78. The singer, actress and 'It' girl of 1960s London inspired — or wrote — ...

INTERVIEW: Laura Barton talks to Will Oldham about recording with some of his heroes, how he writes for his alter ego, and why a song about gun deaths made his legs turn to jelly ...

INTERVIEW: Laura Barton talks to Will Oldham about recording with some of his heroes, how he writes for his alter ego, and why a song about gun deaths made his legs turn to jelly ...

Lana Del Rey, Nelly and Sammy Hagar will headline the stage over the course of the three nights, with Rey heading up the ...

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

songs of Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams and Elvis.” The Malpass Brothers are currently touring from California to New York. Known for their onstage humor and brotherly banter ...

The older people in the country music scene, they have a good habit of telling you what doesn’t work,” songwriter Kevin Logue says, some what diplomatically as he sits in the Celt office. “And that’s ...

Organizers for the international celebration of independent music outlets have shared the list of what's coming Record Store Day 2025.

Merle Haggard wrote “Mama Tried” and released it in 1968 as the sole single from the album of the same name. It topped the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for four weeks. However ...