“If country music wouldn’t support me and take me to that global audience, then I was going to do it anyway.” Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photo: Getty Come on Over received a deluxe reissue on August ...

When songwriter Doug Johnson played a verse and the first line of a chorus of a song idea for his friend and co-writer, Kim Williams, Williams looked at Johnson and said jokingly, "I hate you. Why ...

On this day (May 28) in 1941, Ernest Tubb released “Walking the Floor Over You” as a single. It was a hit for Tubb and would go on to be a country music standard. More than that, it is one of the most ...

This hit from 1965 was actually a cover of a song written by Robert James Byrd, recorded under the name Bobby Day. That original version of the song was released back in 1958 and did fairly well on ...

If there’s anything that defines music in the 21st century, it’s constant change. We live in an era when your next favorite song could come from anywhere — all over the stylistic map, all over the ...

Rhett Miller revisits a song he co-wrote nearly 10 years ago, with Turnpike Troubadours singer Evan Felker, to announce his new solo album, A Lifetime of Riding by Night. "Come as You Are," featuring ...