On paper, these country songs should’ve been niche listens or even full-on failures. Nevertheless, the audience helped them ...

There was a formula to crafting a beautiful 1970s country song, and those elements still have musical merit today.

Few of the guitars that belonged to country-rock pioneer Gram Parsons are around today. Much like the man himself — who died of a morphine-and-tequila overdose in 1973 at the age of 26 — his ...