John Cephas and Phil Wiggins were modern ambassadors of a fingerpicking regional acoustic blues style developed mainly in ...

Fingerstyle guitar isn’t just a technique — it’s a gateway to richer tone, deeper dynamics, and limitless creativity. By blending melody, bass, rhythm, and percussive elements, you can turn one guitar ...

Country guitar playing is defined by its unique picking techniques — from fingerstyle and Travis picking to hybrid picking. These methods blend melody, bass, and rhythm into one seamless performance, ...

You can go in many directions when compiling a list of the all-time best country music songs. Which criteria do you use? Record sales, most streamed, most googled, number of weeks on the country ...

Love it or hate it, there is no denying that the country has gone country. Beyoncé is touring on her Grammy-winning country album, “Cowboy Carter.” All races and ages are line dancing to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. The way we listen to and understand music has continued to ...

These are the best country songs of the last 25 years. There was no strict rule mandating one song per artist, but — with one exception — it ended up that way. The top songs of the 2000s are a diverse ...

Billboard counts down the best country acts of the past (almost) 100 years. Ever since Ralph Peer held his famous recording sessions in Bristol, Tennessee in the late 1920s with such acts as Ernest ...

Some musicians are prolific songwriters, others are technically proficient instrumentalists, but country legend Glen Campbell just so happened to be both, as he casually proves in a jaw-dropping ...

Country music has always been a genre dominated by male artists, and there’s no shortage of talented rising stars in the current scene. However, with so many new faces emerging, tracking who’s who and ...

Country music is full of multi-talented artists. For one reason or another many of these artists get branded “country singers” and that becomes the top entry on their resume. However, through the ...