When people talk about their favorite country songs, they seemingly pick one from the 70s, 80s, 90s, and so on. Though what they innocently fail to acknowledge is the fact that none of those decades ...

Somehow, the 1940s are almost a century away. The decade, which saw the world go to war for a second time and the fall of the German Nazis, was also an exhilarating time for music. In some ways, it ...

Today’s country music genre had its beginnings in the 1920s with the popularization of two types of music: rural white bluegrass or “hillbilly” music and “western” or “cowboy” music. The two styles ...