Eighty-three years ago today, the country singer and songwriter who wrote hits for Merle Haggard and other legends was born.

How's everyone holding up? It's the first week back at work in the new year for a lot of people, which means a lot of catching up on emails, "circling back," and trying to figure out what day of the ...

A new year is upon us, and while we don't know yet about all the music that will be coming out during 2026, some albums have ...

Christmas and country music were made for each other. Sure, the classics — from Dolly Parton’s “Hard Candy Christmas” to Merle Haggard’s “If We Make It Through December” — still define the season, but ...

Looking back at the year in music, it was very much a “Golden” age. But, demon hunting aside, did it also count as golden with a small G? As we dived through our favorite music of 2025 to consider ...

Country music knows heartbreak. Revisit three country songs below that keyed you into heartbreak before you had ever had one.

Kata Hay, a country music singer who got a big break on “The Voice,” has been arrested and charged with vehicular homicide. Hay, whose real name is Kata Huddleston, was taken into custody earlier last ...

Kata Hay, a country music singer who gained fame as a contestant on “The Voice,” has been arrested in Tennessee and has been charged with vehicular homicide. Hay, whose real name is Kata Huddleston, ...

In 1972, West Texas singer-songwriter Joe Ely and two bandmates traveled to Nashville to record their first album under the name Jimmie Dale & The Flatlanders. The sound, however, didn’t fit with ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Joe Ely performs during the “Tsunami Relief ...

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 ...