Remember Jo Dee Messina? “Life Is Good” is one of her finest country tunes, and its life lesson is pretty direct: Life is just too short to let negativity get in the way of enjoying it. She’s right, ...

Country music has always been somewhat on the fringes. Though it has long been one of the biggest (and most beloved) genres, it has failed to reach casual listeners. You are either a country lover or ...

J enni Rose already cried once this morning. Before the sun goes down, she says, she’ll cry again. The tears are of both elation and relief for Rose, who came out to her family as a trans woman in the ...

In HARDY’s new album, the rural way of life is simultaneously eternal and yet under perilous threat. American country music exists as a kind of running textual commentary on our culture, whether ...

Thus begins the whirlwind 500-plus-page biography of the late country singer by Jimmy McDonough, the longtime music biographer best known for his books on Neil Young and Tammy Wynette. But as the book ...