We often idealize the notion of a record deal, assuming such an agreement would beget the first of many hits for up-and-coming performers like Cline. But critics often consider her first few years at ...

A brush with death can be devastating, or it can lead to a career resurgence. For most of the seven country artists profiled in this video, the latter is true in a big way. Kentucky girl Dallas ...

Editor’s note: This segment was rebroadcast on Sept. 29, 2025. Click here for that audio. Singer Patsy Cline helped create the Nashville sound, a crossover between country and pop, in the 1950s and ...

In the late ’50s, “Don Owens’s TV Jamboree” was a must-see every Saturday for country music fans across the Washington metro area. A promoter and DJ with a carnival-barker’s zeal, Owens was known to ...

Cowboy hats and Nashville-style dresses proliferated Thursday night in Oakbrook Terrace. Not the first time I’ve noticed that fans of country music are more common in Chicago’s western suburbs than ...