This week brought great new country and Americana songs from Hailey Whitters, Pug Johnson, Emily Ann Roberts, and more.

Abi Carter will make her touring debut exactly one year after 'American Idol' viewers were first introduced to her.

During one tumultuous night of his infamous "lost weekend," John Lennon and his friends were chased by an angry gang in Chinatown.

The late president celebrated the impact and influence of the song, which decries war, nationalism, and the excesses of ...

While Clapton himself appears on ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’, playing the indelible guitar solo on the White Album track, there’s another Beatles classic that he might as well have appeared on as ...

India Ramey took second place in the Americana category of the 2023 American Songwriter Song Contest with "Ain't My First Rodeo" ...

Though he’s probably told the story of this song’s creation a thousand times, he agrees to do it once more for American Songwriter readers’ benefit. “This is for all the new songwriters ...

They might not realize, if indeed they borrowed the phrase from the song, the actual provenance ... the case for UK bands in the pre-MTV era, American success proved elusive.

On this day in 1997, singer/songwriter Townes Van Zandt died in his Smyrna, Tennessee home at the age of 52. Van Zandt was among a group of elite Texas troubadours that included Guy Clark ...

With predominately Spanish-language lyrics, this song also incorporates English to help intro the tune and give it an American flare on the bridge. And it worked. In the mid-1990s there was one ...

These Southern rock one-hit wonders made waves (both positively and negatively, depending on how you interpret this song) with their cover of a traditional African-American work song by Lead Belly.

Rema has sparked reactions after his song Ozeba made it to number two on Rolling Stone's 40 Best Afropop song of 2024. The ...