Below, Billboard looks at five country songs that mention the Bible. Carrie Underwood earned a top 5 Country Airplay chart ...

Oct. 23—I recently ran across the name of a man identified as a country music songwriter, a man I I'd never heard of before named Paul Gilley, who purportedly wrote some of the classic country songs ...

Hank Williams set many a music-biz template. He was a “rollin’ stone” before Mick Jagger, and a guitar rogue before Keith Richards. A singer/songwriter before Bob Dylan. A successful talent who couldn ...

Cathy Fink didn’t grow up listening to or even necessarily appreciating country music. “In fact, I grew up in a neighborhood where people made fun of country music,” says Fink, an acclaimed ...

Already writing songs at the age of 12, by the late 1940s, Williams was already becoming recognized as a songwriter and later debuted at the Grand Ole Opry in 1949, just three years before his death ...

An all-star set of practitioners of timeless country music — plus members of Hank Williams' family carrying on his creative vision — performed a stirring concert at the Country Music Hall of Fame and ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum will host a concert to commemorate Hank Williams’ 100th birthday, which was Sunday, September 17. The concert will be held at 3:30 p ...

Country tunes and Cirque du Soleil? This might seem like an odd pairing, but the theatrical troupe has a track record for combining music and acrobatics in unexpected and satisfying ways. Sam Williams ...

NOBLESVILLE, Ind. — Genre-defying singer-songwriter Hank Williams Jr. announced a 15-city tour Tuesday morning, which includes a stop in central Indiana. The 73-year-old performer will be at Ruoff ...

Born September 17, 1923, in Mount Olive, Alabama, Hank Williams was determined to be a country music star as a kid. Settled with his family in Montgomery, by 1937, a 14-year-old Williams had already ...