There are so many songs in American music with only 3 chords. Learning how to hear the difference between these chords and ...

This walk-up approach creates movement between the chords. Every genre has certain characteristic rhythms, and country is no different. The ‘Train Beat’ is synonymous with country music and ...

Looking at the state of country music—from Hank to the gleaming polish of the “Nashville sound”—Waylon Jennings, with his signature phased guitar sound, used two chords to reject Nashville ...

The Equal Access program works to remove barriers for marginalized performers and businesspeople in country music.

The man who would one day be dubbed the "Father of Country Music," Jimmie Rodgers, gathered his material first-hand. The son of a section foreman on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, Rodgers went to ...

He said he was talking to me from his “Magoffin County Cadillac,” the inspiration for one of his signature songs. He called his music a combination of Waylon Jennings and ZZ Top. Country combined with ...

The story struck a chord. It's the emotional heart of the six-track release ... And he accomplished that, by continuing the ...

They don’t make country music stars like they used to anymore ... Old-timers yearn for the good ol’ days of three chords and the truth. Give ‘em an acoustic guitar, a fiddle and a cowboy ...

The Uptown Music Collective kicks off its 2024-2025 season with a tribute to modern country next weekend. On the opening weekend of Nov. 8 and 9, the collective will perform at 7:30 p.m. in the ...

It’s how I started: playing with my dad when I was a little boy and he sat down and showed me chords. And my grandmother ... His respected presence in the country music industry is perhaps ...

Country music duo The War and Treaty has been nominated for many awards and has several hits, but the road to fame started in ...

We don’t want to be stars, we want to be suns,” says drummer Shawn Kekoa Pimental of Hawaii’s new super group Seven Suns. “We ...