Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Country music is a wide-ranging genre descriptor, and many ...

Dwight Yoakam has been making top-shelf country music for four decades. Today (October 22), the Kentucky native turns 68 years old, and, with a new album on the way later this year, he shows no signs ...

When it comes to great, toe-tapping, honky tonk, country music there are few better artists than Dwight Yoakam. His musical style blends several threads from the expansive quilt of American music ...

Yoakam has recorded a harmonious new duet with Post Malone. Morris is stretching beyond country's borders. And Thompson — half of the duo Thompson Square — looks back to the roots of honky-tonk. Rock ...

At 68, the Nashville outsider is releasing his first album of original material in nearly a decade, inspired by a joyous shift in his personal life. At 68, the Nashville outsider is releasing his ...