Country music has long been open to “outsiders,” despite what others might want to believe. Lorrie Morgan proves this with her gracious invite to have Beyoncé join her at the Grand Ole Opry for a performance in 2024.
The recently-departed country music icon’s 2008 best-of collection is just one of a handful of accolades tied to Toby Keith’s death at age 63 from cancer-related complications.
Beyoncé released two new country music influenced songs and the debate about who is or what is or isn’t country music has, like the flu virus, returned.
With “World On Fire” closing out two months on top of the Billboard Country Airplay radio chart, Nate Smith announces the follow-up and EP which will feature it.
As we mourn and process the loss of one of country music’s biggest (and maybe most misunderstood) icons, we share a look at the — at times — tumultuous first decade of Toby Keith’s recording career.