(CBS News) Western culture has seen a wide array of music styles and trends occur over the past couple hundred years. From jazz to blues to ragtime to rock to heavy metal and now dubstep (which we ...

Gene Autry, known as the Singing Cowboy, epitomized the western star, performing in movies, television and radio for more than three decades. © Sunset Boulevard ...

The notes used in Western music—or, more accurately, the relationships between the notes used in Western music—have a strange power. Bobby McFerrin demonstrated this dramatically by showing that an ...

Country music can trace its roots back in myriad directions, with influences hailing from Appalachia, the British Isles, Africa and south of the border. But the thread that pulls all of country music ...

Ian Munsick was making his debut at bucket-list venue Red Rocks Amphitheatre just outside of Denver in June 2024 when he noticed someone step onstage. JoRee LaFrance, a member of the Apsáalooke/Crow ...

Of the dozens of pop hits Ray Charles had during his remarkable career, his biggest was a soulful take on Don Gibson’s country classic “I Can’t Stop Loving You,” which logged five weeks at Number One.

Green wrote a book on singing cowboys and is featured in Ken Burns' new PBS series about country music. He says he fell in love with Western music from an early age: "It completely entranced me." This ...

This post was updated Oct. 10 at 9:12 p.m. Contemporary pop hits have sounded hollower without the regular inclusion of girl groups in the Western musical landscape. Even as this summer featured the ...