Take a look back at the 1970s with hit songs from country legends like Dolly Parton, Waylon Jennings, Jerry Reed, and more.

The country singer and songwriter, who died on Saturday at 88, tucked enduring aphorisms into tales about facing up to loss.

Scroll through the gallery below to see Taste of Country's roundup of the saddest songs of the 1980s. Our No. 1 pick is a song that isn't just the saddest song of the decade — it might be the ...

At times, it sucked other key genres like soul and country into its orbit. I don’t really put my fingertip to ... To prove it, I give you the ten worst songs to top the Billboard charts in the 1970s.

Kristofferson's individualism and dogged brilliance helped him kick down genre walls and light the path for other country ...

Hear songs from Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash and more, inspired by a new book.

We rounded up 20 popular baby names from the 1970s that have since gone out to style. Some call these newborn names classic, ...

“Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose,” Joplin sang in her signature blues-rock yowl — perhaps the best-known ...

Gang of Four's 1979 LP Entertainment! made shockwaves. 45 years on, it still speaks powerfully to today's youth.

Kristofferson leaned into the outlaw identity in the 1970s, and in the process, helped Willie Nelson build Austin as an ...

While Virginia also identifies with “Country Roads,” West Virginia and Colorado fight to claim Denver. “Rocky Mountain High” ...

Hugh Prestwood, an El Paso, Texas, native and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame-inducted wordsmith, died on Sept. 22 ...