“They don’t make good country music anymore,” is a myth that nearly every fan of the genre hears on a regular basis. However, there are plenty of artists in the game making traditional-sounding ...

The week Sturgill Simpson’s breakthrough, generation-defining second album, Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, was released, the Number One song on country radio was Brantley Gilbert’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To a lot of country fans, the early 1990s was the golden age of the format. Garth Brooks, Brooks & Dunn, Mark Chesnutt, Vince Gill ...

Ernest may be a new name in country music to some, but he’s been a hit songwriter behind the scenes for years. He has five No. 1 cuts to his name, including Florida Georgia Line’s “I Love My Country,” ...

“I wasn’t ready,” the country artist tells American Songwriter over the phone. “I just wasn’t home, in every sense of the word. Now I’m really home. I’m a dad, fully immersed in day-to-day life. As ...

Ryan Wong, longtime member of the garage-rock outfit Cool Ghouls, recently released his first solo album, The New Country Sounds of Ryan Wong. “I grew up in Benicia and moved to San Francisco to ...

A decade ago, country music of the ’90s was treated like a novelty from a bygone era. In 2012, Jason Aldean released “1994,” a single that had him chanting the name of honky-tonker Joe Diffie like a ...