Despite country music's roots, Black artists have faced a relentless struggle to obtain mainstream success in the genre. Beyoncé's album "Cowboy Carter" highlighted Black country artists past and ...

Giddy up, ya’ll. Over the weekend, Stagecoach, California’s largest Country music festival, saw one of its most diverse lineups since its inception, with nine Black acts featured across three ...

The growing popularity of Black country artists, spurred in part by Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter,” has sparked a conversation around the history of the genre and the past and present racial ...

Black artists have long been a part of the country music industry, lending some of their cultural influences to arguably one of the most American of music genres. However, they have often faded ...

Though white men in cowboy hats might be the first thing many people envision when they think of country music, Black country singers have been making their mark on the genre from the beginning.

Credit: Rob Bondurant Back in 2017, if you’d asked Joe Bonamassa about the likelihood of a fifth Black Country Communion album, he’d have been far from certain. At that time, the band had just ...

The four members of Black Country Communion all have ‘day jobs’ and plenty of side hustles, but when they come together for BCC they seem to make something that bears almost no relation to ...

I first experienced it when I showed up in Nashville years ago as a 23-year-old country music songwriter, one of very few Black people working in the genre at the time. I felt the same way a dozen ...

Country music, often associated with rural America and the heartland, has deep roots in African American culture. Its origins can be traced back to the African American musical traditions of blues ...

Alice Randall’s My Black Country was a lifetime in the making. The Nashville multihyphenate’s new memoir and accompanying collaborative album draw from Randall’s four-plus decades as a ...