Jeff Bridges gives the finest performance of the year in this modest but glowing country-music drama
By Stephanie Zacharek Dec 15, 2009
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The untold story of Johnny Cash, protest singer and Native American activist, and his feud with the music industry
By Antonino D'Ambrosio
November 8, 2009
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Ever fantasize about trading your day job for the countryside? Brad Kessler on how he got away -- and made cheese
By Paul Tullis
June 29, 2009
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The author of "It Still Moves" discusses her road trip through America's musical past and future -- and why we still yearn for the music of yore.
By Judy Berman
September 2, 2008
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Trisha Yearwood is known for her gorgeous voice and her marriage to Garth Brooks. But, as she told Salon, she can also whip up some mean comfort food.
By Curtis Sittenfeld
May 24, 2008
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What happened? It's like I'm back in high school!
By Cary Tennis
February 27, 2008
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Quintessential American music.
July 4, 2007
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Ryan Adams' "Easy Tiger"
June 26, 2007
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A Zeppelin-esque riff anchors this simple but effective song.
June 20, 2007
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One country legend pays tribute to another.
June 11, 2007
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Slow, sultry country-noir.
May 10, 2007
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Country legend Porter Wagoner sings about life in a mental institution.
April 23, 2007
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Two legends of country music duet on a classic country weeper.
February 26, 2007
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Faith Hill swaps Versace for blue jeans, as country stars drop crossover attempts that no longer play to their red-state base.
By Leanne Potts
July 20, 2005
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Gentle, gray-bearded Willie Nelson comes out as a post-9/11 vigilante with his and Toby Keith's creepy new hit "Beer for My Horses."
By Kate Haulman
July 16, 2003
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Darryl Worley's hot new country single "Have You Forgotten?" plumbs a new low in post-9/11 pop, arguing that to avenge terror we must attack Iraq.
By Eric Boehlert
March 11, 2003
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The radical country rocker and composer of "John Walker's Blues" blasts the war on Iraq, denounces the death penalty and explains why ex-druggies believe in God.
By Andrew O'Hehir
November 13, 2002
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Dynamite new albums from the Dixie Chicks, Kelly Willis and Allison Moorer bridge the gap between alt-country and those cowboy-hat robots in Nashville.
By Stephanie Zacharek
September 14, 2002
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Readers respond to Joan Walsh's "It's My Country and I'll Cry if I Want To."
September 11, 2002
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Corporate dreck dominates the FM airwaves like never before, but hope for music lovers may finally have arrived.
By Gary Dretzka
June 19, 2002
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Thirty years before "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" the scruffy hippies of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band persuaded skeptical country legends to join them in the studio -- and created bluegrass' greatest moment.
By Miriam Pace
May 6, 2002
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After the Country Music Foundation purged beloved longtime employees, some fans and scholars fear that "new country" is invading hallowed ground.
By Edward Morris
February 20, 2002
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An acclaimed country music songwriter makes his fiction debut in a collection of stories straight from the bar at the Tip Top Lounge.
By King Kaufman
June 22, 2001
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On the eve of country music's biggest night, the superstar bites the hand that feeds him -- again.
By Eric Boehlert
October 4, 2000
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Tammy Faye Starlite's vicious country music satire mocks Nashville, conservative values and racist conventions.
By Ron Feemster
July 26, 2000
"Crazy Heart": Truck-stop romeo stripped down
Living the dream, with goats
All-Americana girl
Heaven, heartache and the power of deviled eggs
I somehow became the "Charlie" girl at the local bar!
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When divas go redneck
Say it ain't so, Willie
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"Will the Circle Be Unbroken"
The battle of Nashville
"Doghouse Roses" by Steve Earle
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