The Red Clay Strays performed their transcendent gospel-tinged rave-up “Demons in Your Choir” at the Academy of Country Music Awards Sunday. The Alabama crew has always straddled Southern rock and ...

When he was a teenager, Kyle Dills sang lead in a bluegrass gospel band in Rock Hill, still his hometown. He didn’t play an ...

This year's "American Idol" winner went viral with a song about postpartum depression, called "String Cheese." (Photo: Disney ...

David Allan Coe, a country singer and songwriter known for his outlaw music in the 1970s and 80s, has died. He was 86. A representative for Coe confirmed the news to USA TODAY April 30. Coe was a ...

The country music world has had a heartbreaking April with the deaths of three iconic performers and one up-and-coming young singer. The young singer, Dylan Carter, was killed in a crash in South ...

While there has been a steady rise in traditional-leaning country music — complete with fiddles and steel guitars — another trend is picking up steam in Nashville. Country music seems to be flirting ...

Leaving behind her rural Mississippi hometown at 17, Tammy Wynette eventually made her way to the bright lights of Nashville. Despite facing gender discrimination in the male-dominated country music ...

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Although originally written and recorded by country singer-songwriter Dallas Frazier in 1965, “Elvira” is forever associated with beloved Southern gospel quartet the Oak Ridge Boys. It’s the late Joe ...

Ringo Starr is delivering a good-natured lecture on bone and joint health. “Get in that gym, loosen up,” he advises. “You can blame me. ‘That Ringo made me come in here.’ ” Famously fit at 85, the ...

If your favorite part of New England summer is dinners by the water, you have to visit Chatham Bars Inn. According to USA TODAY 10BEST Readers' Choice Awards, one of the inn's eateries is the best ...