Award-winning country icon Dwight Yoakam discusses the importance of his latest album "Brighter Days" in preserving California's country legacy.

Laurel Canyon is rich with music landmarks and was home to Joni Mitchell, Frank Zappa, Alice Cooper and more during its 1960s ...

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In 2024, the most memorable country albums were the projects that fell on one end or the other of a stylistic extreme. Some of the biggest splashes came from young-gun traditionalists, who ...

With their seminal 1968 ‘Sweetheart of the Rodeo’ album, The Byrds incorporated country sounds into their repertory, adding songs like ‘Drug Store Truck Drivin’ Man’ to the early Byrds classics of ...

Album track "I Spell Love" is one where, before the quarantine, he would have rested on leaning into cosmic country interpretations on the inspiration of '60s-era folk and pop classics ...

Every new Byrds album seems a continuation of the last; few surprises occur — instead, it’s just like a visit with old friends. Steve Miller’s music, in contrast, seems more jigsaw-puzzleish.

Before it came to be celebrated and defined by the popular radio format known as Americana, country music shaped by folk music, rock and roll and the blues had no catchy name to distinguish it. The ...

This year’s best country albums list is once again presented in partnership with Don’t Rock The Inbox, the amazing country music newsletter run by Stereogum contributors Marissa R. Moss and ...

Eagles frontman and 1980s pop star Glenn Frey selected the six albums that he considered his most favourite of all time.

With their seminal 1968 ‘Sweetheart of the Rodeo’ album, The Byrds incorporated country sounds into their repertory, adding songs like ‘Drug Store Truck Drivin’ Man’ to the early Byrds classics of ...