Today’s country music genre had its beginnings in the 1920s with the popularization of two types of music: rural white bluegrass or “hillbilly” music and “western” or “cowboy” music. The two styles ...
They Are Gutting A Body Of Water and A Country Western are both bands based out of Philadelphia. The former make soupy, genre-defiant scrawls — not unlike what their fellow Philly compatriots the ...
On this day (November 5) in 1911, Leonard Slye was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. In his early 20s, Slye began appearing on radio shows and joined a country band. After bouncing between a handful of ...
A Country Western are part of Philadelphia’s vital constellation of warped post-Alex G, post-TAGABOW indie bands. They released their surprisingly punchy and uptempo album Life On The Lawn last year, ...
When an employee of the KYKC, a country music radio station based in a small southern Oklahoma town, hit send on an email earlier this week responding to a listener's request to hear a new song, they ...
"Country is a state of mind," sang Tom T. Hall, and right now, it's as hot as jalapeños on Long Island. There are two local country radio stations (103.1, — The Wolf (WWWF/103.1 FM) and My Country ...
Lonesomely loping like a cowboy across the plains, the country-western ballad carries on its stark melody and bare words of history, tradition, and above all a flair that sets it apart from the ...