Country

Kimberly Perry recounts her difficult road to motherhood in a new mini-documentary that centers around “If I Die Young” and its follow-up sequel song, the recently released “If I Die Young Pt. 2.” In the five-and-a-half-minute video, Perry says that shortly before she wrote the “Pt. 2” version of the song, she suffered a pregnancy
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Miranda Lambert just announced her first release as an independent artist. A collaboration with Leon Bridges called “If You Were Mine” is coming next week. The love song will be available on June 6. It’s the first of what the country singer teased as several collaborations she’s working on. A press release paints the song as coming from the
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On May 31, 2013, Cassadee Pope released her song “Wasting All These Tears.” The track was her debut country single, but far from her first foray into the music business. Pope was no stranger to music and touring by the time she dropped “Wasting All These Tears”: The Florida native had spent the previous few years
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Thirty-one years ago today (May 30, 1992), Billy Ray Cyrus sealed his fate as a bona fide country music star. The singer’s debut single, “Achy Breaky Heart,” from his freshman album, Some Gave All, landed in the No. 1 spot, where it stayed for five weeks. The Marcy Brothers originally recorded “Achy Breaky Heart” in 1991,
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Thirty-one years ago today, on May 26, 1992, Brooks & Dunn were toasting to their success. It was on that date that the then-new duo earned their first gold album, signifying sales of 500,000 units, for their freshman record, Brand New Man. Brand New Man, which was released in August of 1991, featured four consecutive
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Morgan Wade is set to undergo a double mastectomy this fall. The “Wilder Days” singer reveals that it’s a preventative surgery she chose to have after a recent diagnosis. On Instagram, Wade shared a headline from the New York Post’s Page Six, telling fans that she has been diagnosed with a Rad51D gene mutation. According to the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer
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The best Memorial Day songs focus on the men and women who’ve made the ultimate sacrifice. These 20 country songs do that in deeply personal ways. Well-known titles by Tim McGraw, Toby Keith and the Statler Brothers are the go-to songs for any Memorial Day songs list. For this Top 20, we went deeper. Find
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Phil Vassar became a force on the country music scene beginning in 1999, following the release of his self-titled debut album. That record included his first single, “Carlene,” which featured backing vocals from 90s country hitmaker and longtime friend Collin Raye and climbed to No. 5 on the country airplay chart. Not long after, he
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Twenty-four years ago today, on May 28, 1999, Brad Paisley fulfilled a dream he’d held since childhood, when he gave his debut performance at the Grand Ole Opry. The West Virginia native’s first appearance on the revered stage came just as his debut single, “Who Needs Pictures” — which was the title track of his freshman
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