Ray Charles and Country’s Color Barrier
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Country Music
With both volumes of 1962's 'Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music' being reissued, we look at the records' cultural impact
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10 Classic Country Albums Turning 20 This Year
Posted in: Country Music ListsFrom the Garth Brooks' blockbuster 'Double Live' to Lucinda Williams' evocative 'Car Wheels on a Gravel Road'
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12 Classic Country Albums Turning 30 This Year
Posted in: Country Music ListsFrom Patty Loveless' 'Honky Tonk Angel' to George Strait's 'If You Ain't Lovin' (You Ain't Livin')'
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How Aretha Franklin Influenced the Country Music of Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette
Posted in: Country MusicWhile the Queen of Soul cut only a few country songs, her own work often mirrored Nashville themes
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10 Classic Country Albums Turning 40 This Year
Posted in: Music ListsFrom Tanya Tucker's decidedly Outlaw 'T.N.T' to Waylon Jennings' romanticizing 'I've Always Been Crazy'
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10 Classic Country Albums Turning 50 This Year
Posted in: Music ListsFrom Johnny Cash's 'At Folsom Prison' to Dolly Parton's 'Just Because I'm a Woman'
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Inside Glen Campbell’s Classic Forgotten Albums
Posted in: Country MusicFrom 1972's stunning 'Glen Travis Campbell' to a 1974 tribute to Hank Williams, some of the late country star's best work is largely unknown
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100 Greatest Country Artists of All Time
Posted in: Music ListsFrom architects of the genre like Hank Williams and Jimmie Rodgers to game-changers Garth Brooks and Shania Twain
