The Dukes of Hazzard was more than just a popular TV show. It was a television phenomenon that launched several of its cast members into sex symbol status. Nearly 50 years after the show debuted in ...

Brett Young earned a No. 1 hit with his debut single "Sleep Without You," a song from his eponymous debut album, and followed it up with his second single, "In Case You Didn't Know." Young, who wrote ...

Country music has a long history of second-generation stars, dating back to June Carter, Justin Tubb, Hank Williams Jr. and other children of the genre's earliest tastemakers. They may have taken the ...

In 1992, Martina McBride released her first album, The Time Has Come. Backed by RCA Records and already opening shows for country music legend Garth Brooks, it seemed that the record's title was a ...

The 1990s are seen as one of the golden eras of country music. It was the decade that marked the emergence of a new generation of country stars who often mixed traditional country sounds with a modern ...

Over the course of a massively successful, two decade-long career, Rascal Flatts have become an essential part of the soundtrack to country music fans' lives. Since 2000, the trio has dropped 11 ...

The explosion of emerging talent that came onto the country music scene in the 1990s included a wave of impressive new bands. For decades, the genre had been overwhelmingly dominated by solo acts — ...

What makes a truly great dark country song? Well, it helps if there's a death involved, and country music is full of classic, chilling murder ballads that fit the bill. But in order to be truly dark, ...

Toby Keith scored a chart-topping hit with his single "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)" when he released it as the debut single from his 2002 album Unleashed. Keith wrote the ...

When Travis Tritt wrote "Here's a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)," which he released as a single in 1991, he was still dreaming of being a country star, while working a regular job and mourning the ...

Much of Ashley Monroe's latest album, Sparrow, is an exploration into traumatic experiences the country singer and songwriter experienced early in life; however, the project's lead-off single, "Hands ...

Tim McGraw knows his childhood wasn't an easy time for his mom, Elizabeth "Betty" Ann D'Agostino, and her struggles have stuck with him. McGraw's mother, now Betty Trimble, became pregnant with him, ...