After years of listening to almost nothing but metal, these five songs were my gateway to the world of country music.

Hank Williams was its second father, such an overpoweringly great singer and songwriter that he completely transformed what ...

He didn't play many Williams songs during his coffee house ... why Dylan decided to break out the 1947 Hank Williams classic "On the Banks of the Old Pontchartrain" for the first time in his ...

For context, Williams was 33-years-old and had eight albums ... free and become his own man. In Hank Williams fashion he gave a simple answer to how achieved this freedom. Telling Letterman all it ...

The below songs are ordered by release date ... And it’s infectious — even 75-year-old Hank Williams Jr. loosens up, singing about swigging thousand-dollar bourbon from a Solo cup and blasting ...

Hall, Dolly Parton, and Hank Williams, Jr., in our own time ... and the popular music industry all introduced styles and songs that became part of Southern folk traditions. At the home of Terry ...

On [the album] Nebraska, I ended up writing all those detail-filled songs.” He also shared that during that time, he started listening to more Hank Williams and Johnny Cash music, which impacted ...

Fans of Brandy Clark and early Kacey Musgraves will appreciate Jenny Tolman's melodic, crass brand of country music. Start ...

Checking in from the screened in porch of his Chattanooga property, the 69-year-old exuded effortless ... “Do you know any Hank Williams songs?” And I’m like, duh, and they said, “Sing ...

Mason Ramsey has a soft laugh that breaks through the phone as he talks about the whirlwind journey that began in a Walmart ...

For "Saturday Night in New Orleans," Johnson recalls sitting with Hall of Fame songwriter Tony Joe White — known for penning ...

It’s part of Transa, a massive new project from the Red Hot organization supporting and celebrating trans people with more than 100 artists contributing to 46 songs. Over a sparse track that’s ...