It reached No. 2 on the Billboard R&B chart. More than a decade later, country singer Sonny James took the song to No. 1 in the early 1970s. James released “Empty Arms” as the second single ...

Several of them have been hits more than once for different singers, and in different genres. Scroll through the gallery below to see Taste of Country's roundup of the best sad songs of the '70s.

From its earliest days when country and R&B converged for a new ... As you will see in the below list of the Top 35 Hard Rock Albums of the '70s, even this singular subgenre has its offshoots ...

As far as country songwriters go — or songwriters of any genre — Kris Kristofferson was among the most authentic. That’s a word that Nashville loves to freely toss around, but in the case of the Texas ...

"Dancing Queen" debuted at the perfect time, as disco was all the rage in the latter half of the '70s. Mixing disco with ... Of all the chart-topping hits written by the Beatles, none stand ...

When one of the members of Australia’s popular cover band Hindley Street Country Club (HSCC) sang a few verses of songs by ...

Kris Kristofferson, a groundbreaking country music singer-songwriter and a Hollywood actor in 'A Star Is Born' and 'Blade,' ...

Also in January, we said goodbye to Margo Smith, the late-'70s country chart-topper who left behind a catalog filled with country and Christian hits. Oklahoma Football Will Tribute Toby Keith This ...

MANILA, Philippines — When one of the members of Australia’s popular cover band Hindley Street Country Club (HSCC ... at how he happened to know these ‘70s bands and their tracks.

I suggest no, the reason being that in many ways today’s country is yesterday’s top-40 … much of country music’s top hits are not ... songs in the 1960s and ‘70s. So why the split?

JD Souther, a songwriter who helped propel the country-rock movement of the 1970s with hits that he penned for the Eagles, Linda Ronstadt and James Taylor, and who found a burst of solo success ...