Country music, as a termed genre, more or less began back in the 1940s, inspired by countless American folk genres dating back to the 1920s or even earlier. By the time the 1960s rolled around, ...

Country music as we know it today goes back almost 100 years. While the history of the genre goes back much further, the commercialization of country music began with the Bristol Sessions—a set of ...

The iconic Ben E. King tune has been popular for decades, spawning many renditions, though it has a special meaning for Wilson, thanks to his journey as a singer-songwriter, his love of Stephen King, ...

These sad country songs are stone-cold classics. In the 1960s, heartbreak looked a little different than it does today: There were no breakups over text or email, no obsessively scrolling through your ...

George Harrison once drew a simple frame around the Beatles' musical origin story, highlighting the impact of the blues. "If there was no Lead Belly, there would have been no Lonnie Donegan; no Lonnie ...