Today, country music is a genre that is popular worldwide. Although the genre itself in its current form isn’t reflective of ...

The “point” of Sinners, a rip-snorting vampire-centric music video, is not that “human beings are the real monsters.” The ...

The new book '100 Years of Grand Ole Opry' looks at the history of the country music institution, including its rhinestone fashion.

Dolly Parton effectively taught Jane Fonda how to be a better celebrity, more believable hillbilly, and veteran performer in ...

Country music is not—and never was—one style of ... Well, no, it’s blues. It’s jazz. It’s hillbilly. It’s everything about the immigrant experience brought to America and Americanized.

Williams, aptly nicknamed the Hillbilly Shakespeare, was instrumental in bringing music down to the level of common people.

High-energy entertainer and Western lifestyle personality The Roaming Hillbilly is set to bring his signature boot-stompin’, ...

Ken Burns' new series, 'Country Music', unpacks the complex rise of the genre from its hillbilly beginnings to its pop-inflected, star-struck present. I grew up on R&B and rock & roll. But in the ...

Country music started in the 1920s with its birth in Bristol, Tennessee. The genre was called hillbilly music. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. The first family of country ...

Officials say that The Roaming Hillbilly's unique performance style is a perfect fit for Red Bluff and America's Largest ...