Success in the entertainment industry takes hard work, creativity, and, more often than not, the stars aligning just right—and on October 1, 1929, the cosmos locked into place over the tiny city of ...
If anyone was still on the fence as to whether Merle Haggard had what it took to become a country music icon, the October 3, 1968, release of his eighth studio album likely put an end to those ...
In fact, he met two men who were on death-row which inspired his iconic song “Sing Me Back Home,” but eventually, seeing all of the horrors of prison led to him straightening up his act for good, ...
In the world of country music, there are many disparate regional influences — think Red Dirt in Oklahoma, and of course, the Nashville sound — that influence the genre. But few have had the outsized ...
National Museum of African American History and Culture, American, founded 2003 An oral history interview with Selena Williams and Bonnie Taylor-Williams. It consists of two versions, unedited (2023.4 ...
As the Nashville Sound was taking off, two thousand miles to the west, in California’s San Joaquin Valley, a different kind of country music—unafraid of its rough edges—was coming out of the smoky ...
On September 22, 2019, Portland-raised and world-renowned ballerina Jacqueline Schumacher died. She was the first ballerina in the country to perform as the Swan Queen in the full-length version of ...
Today is Thursday, Sept. 11, the 254th day of 2025. There are 111 days left in the year. Today in history: Advertisement Article continues below this ad On Sept. 11, 2001, nearly 3,000 people were ...
There is a road in the Mojave Desert that appears to be nothing more than an abandoned asphalt strip. For a little more than four miles, there runs an isolated, flat, and straight road that was once a ...
Wallen’s achievement is especially impressive because he has amassed this hefty total of weeks at No. 1 in such a short amount of time. He first topped the chart on Aug. 15, 2020. The chart was named ...