Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Barbara Mandrell (left) and Kelsea Ballerini - Credit: Chris Hollo/NBC Kelsea Ballerini celebrated the 100th anniversary of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Country Music Hall of Famer and Grand Ole Opry member Barbara Mandrell retired from the stage before turning 50. However, she and ...

Barbara Mandrell scored her fourth No. 1 country single in 1981 with 'I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool' -- often referred to as her signature song. No. 32 on our Top 100 Country Songs countdown ...

When Miranda Lambert played an unplugged show at Nashville’s City Winery last month, she was joined by nearly a dozen of her musical friends, including Maren Morris, Ashley Monroe, songwriters Nicolle ...

Barbara Mandrell may have been, as her song title suggests, country when country wasn’t cool. But she was much more than that, too. The Houston native typified the phrase “all-around entertainer” ...

Kelsea Ballerini celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Grand Ole Opry with a moving cover of Barbara Mandrell’s 1981 tune “I Was Country When Country Wasn’t Cool.” Ballerini took the Nashville venue ...