Country Music
The musician apologized in a statement to TMZ, saying, “I used an unacceptable and inappropriate racial slur that I wish I could take back.” Source
A 17-year-old from a small Georgia town built an audience as a rapper on TikTok and SoundCloud before pivoting to country music and inching his way into a notoriously cloistered industry. Source
The 27-year-old Nashville star leaves ample room for musical variety on his second LP, “Dangerous: The Double Album,” but keeps his lyrics focused on rural America as an idyllic fantasy. Source
He cemented his place in the country pantheon in the 1970s with hits including “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’” and “Is Anybody Goin’ to San Antone.” Source
Some of pop music’s biggest names didn’t get nominations for the 2021 awards, while a diverse list of lesser-known acts filled out the ballot. Source
He never had a Top 40 pop hit. But his best-known composition became a standard, and he became a mainstay of the outlaw country movement. Source
Hear tracks by Halsey, Priya Ragu, Jorja Smith and others. Source
The Nashville boundary-pusher and five all-star collaborators built “Hard to Forget” around a sample of Webb Pierce’s “There Stands the Glass.” See how they made it sound modern in the latest Diary of a Song. Source
How would Nashville be different if it hadn’t pushed the trio away? A conversation about “Gaslighter” and beyond. Source
