Country Music – Page 70

Patrick Haggerty, ‘Lost Pioneer’ of Gay Country Music, Dies at 78

In 1973, he put out a little-noticed album of songs about same-sex love and social protest. Forty-one years later, he became an unlikely star.

By Alex Traub

With his pounding piano, his impassioned vocals and his incendiary performing style, Mr. Lewis lived up to his nickname, the Killer.

By William Grimes

Best known for a 1965 homemaker’s reply to a hobo’s refrain, the Oklahoma native had a hit the same year with the very different “Home of the Brave.”

By Ed Shanahan

A conversation about the country music titan’s sly radicalism and the many readings and misreadings of her work.

By Ethan MillerReuters