Certain country music so perfectly captures the dimly-lit lifestyle of a smoky dive bar that it shares its moniker with those establishments: honky-tonk. Both as a place and as a song, the honky-tonk ...

These country songs from 1973 spit some serious truth, and it might have been just a bit too much for the era.

In the 60s, country music gave fans great songs. These are three country songs from the 1960s that are perfect for karaoke ...

That "little something extra" is an important element of honest-to-goodness honky-tonk music. It's called twang. When's the last time you heard much of that on so-called "country music" radio stations ...

Many subgenres, developed as reactions to other styles, comprise country music. Songs of lost love, tragedy and working-class life dominated this early form of country, and it’s been appropriated by ...

A Kentucky native who cut his teeth as a honky-tonk musician in California, Dwight Yoakam has seemed like an odd man out for the entirety of his 30-plus year career. "Dwight never sat me down and told ...