Few musical genres capture the art of telling a sad story beautifully quite like classic country and Western songs. This storytelling music comes from places where life is hard: working-class Southern ...

On Jan. 22, central Pennsylvania lost one of the area’s most beloved country singers and songwriters. Al Shade, a legendary country/western music star from Gratz, died last week at 98. Shade was best ...

Country music and Western movies have always been tied together, so it's no big surprise that some of your favorite country singers have starred in some beloved Western films. Taste of Country has ...

Today’s country music genre had its beginnings in the 1920s with the popularization of two types of music: rural white bluegrass or “hillbilly” music and “western” or “cowboy” music. The two styles ...