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 ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Today, 24-year-old Colter Wall, whose dusty baritone voice and deep well of ...

Lonesomely loping like a cowboy across the plains, the country-western ballad carries on its stark melody and bare words of history, tradition, and above all a flair that sets it apart from the ...

Stan Jones wrote one of Western music’s signature songs, “Ghost Riders in the Sky.” But it’s another Jones composition, the restless “Cowpoke,” that Colter Wall interprets on his upcoming album, ...

Most people have heard his famous yodel in Yahoo.com commercials, but Wylie Gustafson’s fans appreciate him for decades of country western music that he says is inspired by his love for life on the ...

WHEN in 1908 a check for $500 came from Harvard University for my first year as a Sheldon Fellow, I was the happiest person in the world. Never before at one time had I owned so much money, money that ...

Veteran singer-songwriter Syd Masters had known for years that the Western Writers of America presented a Spur Award for Best Western Song. He just never got around to entering his songs in the ...

Jean Prescott writes songs about women of the West. For that, she has been honored as a modern-day pioneer. Her latest recognition came a few weeks back in the Fort Worth Stockyards district, where ...

George Michael, Eric Clapton and Kenny G. will no longer be heard on Iranian airwaves after hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad issued a decree banning Western music from the country's radio and ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Chris Goodman Band In news we didn't expect to be reporting this week, a Canadian country ...