Sixty-five years ago today, the country music world lost a legend who recorded some of the genre's most memorable songs.

In the 1960s, country music was emerging solidly as its own genre, drawing from the earlier influences of gospel, bluegrass, traditional Mexican music, Appalachian sounds and more. As Nashville ...

More than a few country one-hit wonders made it big in the 60s, and they should have gone farther than they did.

PORT TOWNSEND — The 1960s musicians who still are touring often present nostalgia acts, playing a familiar selection of their hits that is designed to make the audience open its wallets. Country Joe ...

WASHINGTON – This nation is awash with heated and ungenerous judgments about its past and about Americans who lived before we ascended to today’s sunny uplands of enlightenment. So, for your final ...