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Top 10 Rodney Atkins Songs
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Top 10 Buck Owens Songs
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Nickel Creek’s Debut Album: All the Songs, Ranked
Is your favorite No. 1?
The Chicks’ ‘Wide Open Spaces’ Tracks, Ranked
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Top 10 Trace Adkins Songs
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Top 10 Songs By Lori McKenna
Dang, she's good!
Top 5 Lee Brice Songs
Which one's your favorite?
Top 5 Aaron Tippin Songs
A purveyor of neo-classical country firmly rooted in tradition, Tippin has had a busy and successful career.
Country Artists Wearing the American Flag [PICTURES]
Country music is as American as football / apple pie / insert-any-other-cliche-phrase-here, so it makes sense that, from time to time, the genre's artists would don some patriotic clothing.
Country Artists With Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame [PICTURES]
The Hollywood Walk of Fame features everyone from actors to radio personalities, and there are plenty of Nashville names enshrined there.
Who Is Michaela Anne? 5 Things You Need to Know
Get to know the singer-songwriter on the rise
Loretta Lynn Says Being a Musician Is ‘Harder on a Woman Than It Is a Man’
Loretta Lynn has a lot to be proud of: a storied career, more music halls of fame inductions than any other female musician in history, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and a Presidential Medal of Freedom -- and that's just the beginning. One of the most important pieces of the country icon's legacy is how she paved the way for today's female country artists by tackling contraception, divorce and the hard side of motherhood -- topics that were considered taboo at the time, especially for a woman.