Black Southern line dance culture, and a co-sign from Beyoncé, has helped to popularize the song and its fan-snapping moves.
Category: Country Music
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15 Surprising Show-Tune Covers for Broadway’s Big Night
Get ready for the Tony Awards with songs from Sylvester, Diana Ross & the Supremes, Queensrÿche and more.
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In the Age of the Algorithm, Roots Music Is Rising
Streaming services are helping revive America’s most old-fashioned, undigital genre.
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Johnny Rodriguez, Country Music Star, Dead at 73
He was best known for the 1970s hits “I Just Can’t Get Her Out of My Mind” and “Ridin’ My Thumb to Mexico,” and as the first popular Mexican American country artist.
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Fiona Apple’s Statement About Jailed Mothers, and 8 More New Songs
Hear tracks by Kali Uchis, Moses Sumney and Hayley Williams, I’m With Her and others.
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‘Sinners’ and Beyoncé Battle the Vampires. And the Gatekeepers, Too.
This moment might call for excessive, imaginative Black art that wants to be gobbled up. That’s Ryan Coogler’s new movie. That’s “Cowboy Carter.” Let’s throw in some Kendrick, too.
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Lulu Roman, Who Brought Big-Hearted Sass to ‘Hee Haw,’ Is Dead at 78
Obesity was a source of trauma for her, but also of her comedy, which she showcased, along with gospel singing, on the long-running down-home variety show.
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Beyoncé Cowboy Carter Tour Review; The Star Remixes American History, and Her Own
The superstar’s new stage show turns reclamation, personal and musical, into joyful extravaganza.
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David Briggs, a Music Force in Alabama and Nashville, Dies at 82
A first-call keyboardist, he worked with Elvis Presley and Dolly Parton, helped make Muscle Shoals a recording hub, and had a key role in redefining the sound of country.
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Jelly Roll Should Be Pardoned for Drug and Robbery Offenses, Board Says
The Tennessee Board of Parole unanimously determined that the country star should be pardoned, but the decision is in the hands of the governor.
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Mac Gayden, Stellar Nashville Guitarist and Songwriter, Dies at 83
Heard on Bob Dylan’s “Blonde on Blonde” among other albums, he also sang and was a writer of the perennial “Everlasting Love.”