Tim McGraw returned to live-performing in 2025 after a series of health scares. His “Pawn Shop Guitar Tour” will hit Alabama this summer.

Plus, Tyshawn Sorey’s tribute to Max Roach, Antarctico Vespucci, Denison Witmer, and more ...

This February and March, Honolulu Theatre for Youth (HTY) will present a limited run of two original productions featuring Kānaka Maoli stories and artists. First up is Joseph Kekuku and the Voice of ...

Released in 2010 and produced by T Bone Burnett , Country Music stands out in Willie Nelson ’s catalog for its restraint. There’s no attempt to modernize the material or frame it as a comeback.

The Recording Academy introduced a new Grammy Awards category for Best Traditional Country Album. What does that mean?

The Grammy Awards are already split up into two ceremonies, doling out awards across a whopping 95 categories and over dozens of genre-specific fields. The flashier categories tend to be awarded ...

Do not sleep on Carson Chamberlain's talent. Oftentimes considered the "savior" of traditional country music, Zach Top seems ...

Ask a dozen artists why they decided to release a live album, and you’re likely to get a dozen different reasons. For Tylor Ketchum, founder and frontman of Tylor & the Train Robbers, it was all about ...

Eighty-nine years ago today, the pedal steel guitarist who changed the sound of country music forever was born.

In a few days Paste will stake its claim on who the “greatest guitarist of all time” is, but first we have to talk about the ...

Wesley Webb West—most commonly; Speedy West —is the first known country musician to professionally use a pedal steel guitar.

Growing up on a farm 10 miles east of Springfield, Speedy West first became acquainted with the steel guitar at a young age ...