No trip to Nashville is complete without a day (or late night) spent at Robert’s Western World when Sarah Gayle Meech is onstage: The queen of the honky-tonk plays the last true country bar in town ...

The 50 best country songs from the 1970s shine a light on changes within the genre. Merle Haggard opened the decade with a song rooted in country traditionalism, but 10 years later, artists including ...

It’s been nearly three years since Pam Tillis put out an album of original in the form of Dos Divas, the colorful 2013 project she recorded with her pal Lorrie Morgan. It’s even farther back — nearly ...

From classic rock to classic soul and R&B, the mid-70s brought us punk, disco, New Wave, hip-hop and jazz fusion. Here at the World Cafe, we love the music from the '70s. It was an amazing, eclectic ...

OLD SAYBROOK >> If you were a young man dating in the mid-1970s you probably knew a girl like Amie. You know, the fickle flirt you fall in and out of love with, whom you yearn to possess, yet push ...

When Giovannie Yanez was writing the brooding ballad “The Letter” for the new album by his band Giovannie and the Hired Guns, he kept hearing the voice of Seventies country crooner Freddy Fender in ...

As rock 'n' roll evolved in the ‘60s, it began to shed its roots in country music in favor of the blues. But as the ‘70s loomed, they were brought back together and would soon go on to reach great new ...

Sarah Gayle Meech is a honky-tonk must-see in Nashville: She also has a new album, 'Easin' On.' - Credit: Amanda Van Sandt* It’s a smooth-as-bourbon performance, with Meech evoking the sheen of ...