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 ...

Lonesomely loping like a cowboy across the plains, the country-western ballad carries on its stark melody and bare words of history, tradition, and above all a flair that sets it apart from the ...

Country music and Western movies have always been tied together, so it's no big surprise that some of your favorite country singers have starred in some beloved Western films. Which country ...

Marty Robbins kept western tones alive on country radio even after they had left movie theaters, fashioning classic cowboy songs such as “El Paso,” “Big Iron” and “Cowboy in the ...

Of the dozens of pop hits Ray Charles had during his remarkable career, his biggest was a soulful take on Don Gibson’s country classic “I Can’t Stop Loving You,” which logged five weeks at ...

unless it’s a dangerous stunt,” the legendary actor tells Rolling Stone Country. So when the script for his new film, Wild Horses, called for him to sing the western standard, “Cheyenne ...