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Beyoncé‘s Cowboy Carter helped shine a light on the ongoing conversation surrounding country music in relation toBlack musicians. Now, a new CNN FlashDoc called Call Me Country: Beyoncé and Nashville’s Renaissance, out April 26 on MAX, will dive even deeper into the issues and hurdles Black artists have long faced …

Wyatt Flores can pinpoint the exact moment he says the party ended in country music. After a decade-plus of tailgating, beer-drinking songs clogging up playlists, the pandemic struck and forced artists and fans alike indoors with their thoughts. And shit got real, fast. “They got trapped inside of wherever they …

Not long ago, Lizzie No had an out-of-body experience while listening to Gillian Welch. The singer-songwriter had spent the past few years trying to make sense of the fractured, frighteningly personal songs she’d been writing, songs that spoke to a pain whose source she couldn’t always name. Many of them …

When Beyoncé released “Texas Hold ‘Em” and “16 Carriages” last week, fans and insiders wondered if country songs from a Black pop star would get a cosign from the industry’s great gatekeeper, country radio. The answer appears to be “yes,” as “Texas Hold ‘Em” was the most added track on …

Beyoncé has become the first Black woman artist ever to top Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart in the modern history of country music, thanks to her country debut “Texas Hold ‘Em,” which also opened at Number Two on the Hot 100, the publication announced on Tuesday. “Texas Hold ‘Em” dethroned …

One of last year’s most unexpected musical twists was the ascent of Zach Bryan, the rootsy singer-songwriter who sounds not unlike Bruce Springsteen or Jason Isbell — and went all the way to Number One on the Hot 100 with the ballad “I Remember Everything,” assisted by Kacey Musgraves. His …

F ew pro athletes have overcome more than Jimmy Butler. Homeless by 13. Unrecruited out of high school. Played ball at a small junior college. Landed at Marquette. Came off the bench till his junior year. Slid to 30th in the draft. Didn’t start as a rookie. Spent years banging …

“It would be so much easier to let me go/Let me keep on wandering down my lonely road.” These are the lyrics from Nate Smith’s “Love Is Blind,” a country ballad that accompanies a dramatic and intense scene between Love Is Blind cast members Izzy and Stacy on the fifth …

Miranda Lambert might want to consider a “no cell phones” policy at her Las Vegas residency. The singer has come under fire after she stopped one of her shows to reprimand a group of audience members attempting to take a selfie during one of her songs. In a now-viral TikTok …

More and more country music seems to be bubbling over into the pop mainstream this year. “Last Night,” a single from Morgan Wallen, won’t budge from its top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 and among the positions below it are Luke Combs’ cover of Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” and …