Country Music

He was best known for his song "Mr. Bojangles."

Legendary country music figure Johnny Bush died on Friday. He was known widely for writing the song "Whiskey River," made popular by Willie Nelson.

A San Antonio area band is plowing musical ground that has lain fallow for quite some time, and their latest album is like a window into another era. The…

Every two years, the Texas Commission on the Arts nominates a select number of artists who "inspire others through their unique creative expression" to be…

"Do we think our little white asses are the only ones that matter? No!" the singer, songwriter, philanthropist and businesswoman told the music magazine.

Nashville has rigid hierarchy of success — particularly when it comes to artists promoting themselves and ascending the city's ladder. And then came a virus.

Gaslighter is country trio The Chicks' (formerly Dixie Chicks) first new album in 14 years. In some ways, the world has finally caught up to the band since it fell out of public favor in 2003.

Long known as firebrands ready to take on abusers, country music and the president, the trio now known as The Chicks is finding – on its first album in 14 years – beauty in loss and lonesomeness.

The country artist talks to NPR's Ailsa Chang about how following her muse to make the hard-rocking That's How Rumors Get Started is a lesson to herself and her kids on following their dreams.

The country trio has changed the band's name to The Chicks in an apparent distancing from its association with racism in the South. The move was accompanied by a new song, "March March."