The Grand Ole Opry showcases country music's past, present and future. So it's telling that after the Opry renovated and unveiled its new stage earlier this year, this was the first song we heard.

Individual family stories and mythic American stories and songs help us define what a life looks like and how it should be ...

John McEuen, a co-founder of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, never dreamed when he was growing up in Southern California that he’d someday make country music history. But, improbably, he did just that ...

Throughout Country Music, Ken Burns and his team trace the genre's ebbs and flows, its moves toward rock 'n' roll (or more polished sounds) and back again. The idea of country music, they show viewers ...