The 1990s just might be the definitive era of sad country music. Legends like Garth Brooks, George Strait and Alan Jackson were at the top of their game during that decade, and young bucks — like an ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. In 1996, Jo Dee Messina’s debut single, “Heads Carolina, Tails California,” ...

High school football season is upon us, and you need a playlist. How about throwing it back to '90s country in 2025? There is something about a Friday night under the big lights, hanging with friends ...

The ’90s produced some of the best-loved country songs in history. The decade saw the rise of artists like George Strait, Randy Travis, Reba McEntire, Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, and a host of others ...

One key change evident at the 2019 edition of the Stagecoach country music festival in Indio is the continuum ripple effect of last year’s disappearance of the Mustang Stage, which since the beginning ...

K.T. Oslin, a witty and sophisticated country star who found both critical and commercial success in the late 1980s, died Monday in suburban Nashville. She was 78. Her death was confirmed by the ...

Martin Kahan, a music video director who worked with major pop and rock acts in the 1980s before coming to specialize in top Nashville artists during the ’90s, died of cancer Sunday in Lakewood, NH.

Throughout the first half of the decade, it felt as if two predominant styles of country music were receiving the most attention: the acoustic, low-fi sound popularized by the likes of Zach Bryan and ...