If a country ballad isn’t a tearjerker, then you’re probably not doing it right. The whole point of country music is to share real stories of real people. It’s a direct descendant of folk music, which ...

Rock bands have dished out plenty of ballads that have had people in the audience on their feet, lighters in the air, over the years. But what about country music? There are quite a few beautiful ...

Country Music Hall of Fame member Ray Stevens has released the first of four new albums. Out now via Curb Records, Great Country Ballads features twelve timeless hit songs that left a mark on Stevens, ...

As a member of Broken Social Scene — the wildly prolific and musically incestuous Canadian music collective — singer-songwriter Jason Collett has recorded three shimmering and uplifting indie-rock ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The world was almost deprived of Patsy Cline's signature song, "Crazy." The 1961 track, which is now regarded as one of the ...