Renowned steel guitarist player Walter Haynes died on Jan. 1, 2009, in Tyler, Texas, at age 80. He frequently played with Patsy Cline.

It used to be possible for women in country music to grow their radio careers after having kids. There's not one single ...

Ghost Hounds, which SAVNT described as a mix of Lightnin’ Hopkins, the Rolling Stones, and Chris Stapleton, is the brain child of guitarist Thomas Tull, a media-shy billionaire whose past ventures ...

You can’t keep a dedicated performing arts pro retired for long! When she took her final bow at the end of the 2024-2025 season after 25 years of leading UCSB Arts & Lectures (A&L), Celesta M. Billeci ...

No, we don't have a crystal ball — but we do have nine out-there country predictions for what's going to happen in country music in 2026. In this list, we named some artists who we think will release ...

The U.S. Capitol on Tuesday began displaying a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high school, a pointed replacement for a statue of ...

Joe Ely, the progressive country music pioneer and renowned Texas singer-songwriter, has died. He was 78. Ely died on Monday, Dec. 15, at his home in Taos, New Mexico, due to complications of Lewy ...

It was another banner year for country artists in 2025. In addition to Moroney and Langley, there was a new class of artists all of whom experienced their first major flushes of success, including ...