The country music world had been rocked by the deaths of three legendary performers to start the year. Al Shade, perhaps the ...

Don Adams toured with Johnny Paycheck and George Jones and helped define the outlaw country sound of the 1960s and ’70s.

In the first few weeks of 2026, country music mourned the loss of acclaimed songwriter Jim McBride, and said goodbye to the ...

Billy Parker might not be a name that many modern country music fans know, but as Channel 6 News in Oklahoma noted, he was an influential voice in the genre for decades. Parker died Monday morning in ...

Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Joe Ely, a key figure in Texas’s progressive country movement of the 1970s, has died. His representative confirmed to Rolling Stone that Ely passed away at his home in ...

On Jan. 22, central Pennsylvania lost one of the area’s most beloved country singers and songwriters. Al Shade, a legendary ...

Jim McBride and Billy Parker might not be names that country music fans hear every day, but they were guys who had legendary ...

Joe Ely, the progressive country music pioneer and renowned Texas singer-songwriter, has died. He was 78. Ely died on Monday, Dec. 15, at his home in Taos, New Mexico, due to complications of Lewy ...

Known as the “Voice of Oklahoma”,  the radio station KVOO found itself becoming the home of Parker. Not loving the strenuous ...

Billy Parker, one of the most influential voices in country music radio, died Monday at the age of 88. The Hall of Fame ...