The 2000s saw a resurgence in R&B, with many male singers making significant contributions to the genre. While some artists achieved massive mainstream success, others remained underrated despite ...
Breaking barriers and redefining the genre, these Black country artists are bringing fresh voices and stories to the heart of country music. Country is a broad musical category that includes ...
In the 1980s, more than ever before, country artists and songwriters were perfecting the art of the story song. They learned to draw fans with a gripping narrative — and often, that made already ...
The joke works, in part, because country music often expresses abstract ideas—take grief, for instance—by focusing on concrete objects. It’s a genre that likes to show first and tell second.
But over the past 50 years, queer and feminist artists in the West started employing those techniques, in part to challenge the (often straight male) art world establishment. Queer men in ...