Morgan Wallen is a townie. That might seem an odd thing to say about the arguable face of country music — a man whose albums are guaranteed chart-toppers and whose singles frequently reverberate their ...

“One thing people in the industry all talk about quite a bit is country music has a 10-year pendulum of how the music changes,” said Ritch Cassidy, morning show host on Omaha country station 93.3 The ...

Now that “bro-country” is part of the broader musical lexicon — in that you can look it up in the damn Oxford English Dictionary — it would appear that we’re stuck with this subpar sub-genre of ...

It’s been a pretty terrible past few years for country music. The rise of “bro country,” music made for and by red-blooded, America-loving, beer-drinking white guys like Luke Bryan and Eric Church, ...

The most disappointing thing about Sam Hunt’s “Body Like a Back Road” is the fact that humans wrote it. If Hunt’s 2017 bro-country hit was written by an AI system programmed by junior ad execs, well, ...

While some try to distance themselves from bro country, there are those that are proud of that time period in country music. Jake Owen is not only one of them, but he is planting his flag on top of ...

It still haunts him, what happened on the bus after a show in Missoula, Montana. It was 2017, and Chase Rice, on tour to support his album Lambs & Lions, had ordered a bunch of barbecue from a local ...

Chase Rice surprised listeners with the music on I Hate Cowboys and All Dogs Go to Hell. He left the bro-country sound that brought him hits songs and acclaim and stepped into a more traditional ...

Whether you like it or not, it’s undeniable that country music is on the rise. There’s no debating that artists like Noah Kahan, Zach Bryan and Tyler Childers have brought the heat back to the country ...

This story is the third installment of a three-part series discussing major changes in popular music throughout the course of 2024. Today’s story focuses on the current state of country music. This ...