THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT COUNTRY SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA BY ONLINE MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MEASURED BY ...

For Charles’s seminal 1962 album “Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music,” the pianist included a cover of a song written ...

David Alan Coe once sang about “The perfect country and western song.” While “Amarillo by Morning” doesn’t say anything about getting drunk, mamas, trains, or prison it’s pretty close ...

Country music is not—and never was—one style of music. It has always been a mixture of many styles, springing from many roots and sprouting many new branches to create a complicated chorus of ...