Rhythm of the Road by Kris Rutherford

In their 1985 autobiographical country hit song “Partners, Brothers and Friends,” the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (NGDB) asked, “Is it folk or rock or country;

This story is Part 2 of a series. To read Part 1, click here. By the mid-1960s, with songs like Dave Dudley’s “Six Days on

When one considers the career of Dave Dudley, the arguable “King of Trucker Country,” it might appear that the genre reached its stride in the

Trucking songs, truck driving songs, road songs, songs to travel by — these terms apply to the music the stereotypical truck driver tends to listen

David Ball didn’t break through on the country music scene until he was 41 years old, but he had been working since childhood for the

It’s not often you’ll hear me talk about a Jewish native of Philadelphia carved out his mark as one of the most noted western swing

When discussing the names of legendary country performers of the mid-20th century, chances are the name Leroy Van Dyke doesn’t immediately come to mind. Van

I love Reba McEntire. As far as I’m concerned, she bests Patsy Cline as the greatest female country artist of all time. “When Whoever in

“If it sounds country, that’s what it is. It’s a country song.” Truer words than Kris Kristofferson’s introduction to his recording of “Me and Bobby

It’s generally accepted that Bob Wills, along with his Texas Playboys, remains the “King of Western Swing.” But in the 1940s and early 1950s, a

During the 1970s, as country music artists gradually crossed over to pop, one casualty of the genre’s evolution was the cowboy hat. While some artists