Country music has a well-deserved reputation of supporting the police, but there are still many songs criticizing the cops.

Country music has plenty of well-known tropes — but some common stereotypes about the genre, its artists, and its fans are ...

Released in October 2011, “Home” became the stirring second single—and title track—from Dierks Bentley’s 2012 album. The patriotic song was deeply influenced by a tragic January 2011 shooting in ...

Singer Zach Bryan faces backlash from the country music scene after releasing "Bad News," a controversial song criticizing ...

EVERY year as Merdeka month rolls around, you can not escape the sound of patriotic songs playing everywhere, from supermarkets and restaurants to radios and school assemblies. These songs do more ...

-There were two cover songs that were included: Chris Stapleton’s “Tennessee Whiskey” and Johnny Cash’s “Hurt,” and to be frank, Cash’s rendition of “Hurt” should have been the highest ranked country ...

This story is part of The Tennessean’s Notorious Nashville series, which takes a look back at some of the city’s most provocative news stories of the 21st century so far. The Chicks' criticism of ...