Write a country / western song on the following topic: The surviving adult children of Ronald Kemmer—Travis, Becky, Collette, and Ronda—dispute the distribution of a 1978 Ford pickup truck.

His Western roots shine through even during this ... there's not a lot of artists who grew up that way in country music. She understands these lessons." The Cordero duet is "God Bless the West ...

Credit: Chris Goodman Band In news we didn't expect to be reporting this week, a Canadian country and western band are creating something of a stir with a song about an old Guns N' Roses t-shirt.

By Tom Roland The modern country music business is putting a little of the western back into country & western. The C&W phrase was dismissed years ago: The Recording Academy dropped “Western ...

Few musical genres capture the art of telling a sad story beautifully quite like classic country and Western songs. This storytelling music comes from places where life is hard: working-class ...

Just like the new crop of country music and Western wear, we're collectively weaving a new national identity that embraces America's complicated history and questions its future.

How that geography defines Western culture -- and refines how various aesthetics of mainstream country music are redefining pop culture -- is also of great importance to him. "Long Live Cowgirls ...

We’ll hear country songs sung by Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles and Ella Fitzgerald. We’ll hear jazz songwriters like Cole Porter writing old-fashioned Western tunes. And we’ll hear the jazz ...

“Oh, we got both kinds,” she says, brightly, “country and Western!” The joke was that those two kinds of music were really the same kind, and sometimes they have been. Starting in ...

Because there’s so many different pockets of country music — you have the Western outlaw, you have Megan Moroney’s pop country,” he noted, as Maroney performed on the main stage in the ...