There are dozens of new country songs released each week. We’ve picked the five best for Friday, May 30. This week’s Top 5 Country Songs features an established hitmaker, a pair of relative newcomers ...

Lee Ann Womack’s declaration of love, “I Hope You Dance” was released in 2000. This song is gushing with sentimentality. Womack expresses love without saying those three little words. Her hopes for ...

The draw of country music–or any music, for that matter–is the ability of the listener to relate to lyrics delivered by singers they believe. As a result, the genre can be hard on those who are trying ...

Country music has a rich history of incorporating themes of rowdy Saturday nights, evenings spent drinking in bars, heartbreak anthems, cheatin’ songs and romantic odes, but the genre’s artists have ...

The realms of country music and NASCAR have historically been united by a fervent and overlapping fanbase, one devoted to both high-octane races and country music’s musical traditions. Over the years, ...

When Dolly Parton released “Jolene” in 1973, she probably didn’t expect her tale of a red-haired beauty at the local bank flirting with her husband, Carl, to become one of the most-covered country ...