Music

A transplanted Austinite remembers the Texas music mecca he once called home.

Rock and roll at the Double J Hacienda & Art Ranch.

The country music star talks Nashville trends

A dance hall might just be the most Texas thing there is

Here's an inspiring sampling of what the company founder has been listening to lately.

While we can't review all the great country, Western, and Americana CDs out there, we can share some favorite recent songs.

Listen to or download these festive tracks that staff members plan to turn up this New Year's.

In our first lengthy discussion with him since our inaugural issue back in 1993, cowboy troubadour Don Edwards covers everything from Greek wisdom and Starbucks to living in the past and dying by gunshot. The only question left unanswered: What took us so long to call?

What’s a man got to do? Cowboy singer-songwriter Brenn Hill speaks from experience.

Whether you're looking for a cool night spot or a matinee, Toronto's got the scene

The man who sold more than 60 million records and brought stomp to swing.

After dominating the record charts and selling out concert venues for the better part of 30 years, what can you do for an encore? If you're George Strait, you just keep doing what you've always done.

Have any music lovers on your holiday list? Here's baker's dozen CDs from the recent past for a country-Christmas present.

Whats next for Joey + Rory? Find out as they sit down with C&I's Joe Leydon in this exclusive interview.

Easy as it may be to pin some Western icons down to a single image, this one's been riding his own ruggedly self-defined trail in music, ranching, cowboy culture, and Western Canadiana over the last five decades.

How do you shortlist eight great Ian Tyson songs from a career that's spanned five decades? We took the easy way out and asked the songwriter himself for some guidance.

C&I's Joe Leydon talks with the country singer about her latest album and her legendary family.

Legendary singing cowboy poet Michael Martin Murphey and the Rio Grande Band recently performed in Cheyenne, Wyoming, during the annual Americana Music Weekend.

Liberty Boots and Shyboy Guitars are a marriage made on the rock 'n roll stage — and their raucous offspring is a limited-edition 62 Muertos guitar.

Throughout a rock-blues-country-whatever career that began with him as a teenager in Lubbock hopping trains to California with a guitar slung over his shoulder, Ely has picked up almost as many great stories as great songs.

Joe Ely guesses he's written between 850 and 1,000 songs and performed hundreds more, so consider the following simply an excellent starter kit.

We've made an mp3 playlist to help you recall the glory of the Western sky; listen to clips or download them to the left.

The country star talks with C&I's Joe Leydon about her screen performance as a small-town Texas sheriff in Noble Things.

Paisley may be a Grammy Award-winning artist and his wife, Kimberly Williams, may be a household name since her breakout role in 1992's Father of the Bride, but in Tennessee they're just an ordinary couple who can take their family to dinner at the Cracker Barrel without attracting too much attention.

Here's a list of songs, new and old, from this year's NAMMY award-winning artists that deserve repeated listening. Download the songs right here, too.

From the pop R&B of Jana Mashonee to the country-folk of the Crow Girls to the power punk of Blackfire, American Indian music goes far beyond traditional.

We take a look at albums by four top-shelf Native music artists: Jana Mashonee, the Crow Girls, Arvel Bird, and Gary Small & the Coyote Bros.

Carrying on a proud family tradition in own style, on her own terms, Hank Williams' granddaughter is doing a full-court-press publicity push for her latest CD, Here With Me, an impressive collection of 11 ambitiously diverse tracks.

At this year's edition of the annual fest, a fan could attend a "fan appreciation" party; wander among downtown Nashville venues and sample free outdoor performances by The Oak Ridge Boys, Gretchen Wilson, and Jo Dee Messina; and get autographs and photos with their favorite chart-topping stars (Taylor Swift, Montgomery Gentry), venerated veterans (Reba McEntire, Razzy Bailey) and rising up-and-comers (Joey + Rory, Veronica Ballestrini).

The three-day multiethnic event takes place July 10-12 and features musicians, dancers, and craftspeople.

No one carried a tune like Bing Crosby. If you're thinking "White Christmas," this list of timeless country hits might surprise you.

You won't find a more honest-to-goodness cowgirl than Juni Fisher. We review the Western troubadour's latest CD, Gone for Colorado, and she gives us a playlist of tracks from her career that she says reveal the most about her.

Sugarland picked up five nominations, leading Brad Paisley and Taylor Swift with four each, and Rascal Flatts and newcomers Lady Antebellum with three nominations apiece.

The groundbreaking country artist is still tearing down walls, now with a new CD, Lucky One.

The beach-party country-music king keeps the lime-soaked Coronas and Caribbean rum flowing with his 12th studio album, one of his most eclectic yet.

In his latest release, the Belfast Cowboy does just that — keeps it simple — while exploring themes like deliverance and longing.

With her ninth studio album, the artist proves once again that she can deftly straddle country. blues, rock, and Americana.

Dwight Yoakam here. Bobby Darin there. Texas roadhouse on this track; 1930s speak-easy on that one — there are so many intriguing musical points of reference on the former Mavericks frontman's new album.

The Autry National Center of the American West offers a look into musician Marty Stuart's personal experiences with some of the most famous stars in American music.

Pop star Jewel may be new to the country charts — her CD Perfectly Clear debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Country Album chart last June — but she's got a lifetime's worth of country cred.

How do you pick the 50 greatest rodeo songs of all time? Check out this review and Q&A with the co-producers to find out.

The singer-songwriter who's written for the likes of George Strait, Bonnie Raitt, and the Eagles is back with a new solo album.

At age 69, the King of the Mexican Singing Cowboys continues to wow crowds, but he lives for working out his horses back home at the ranch.