Musicians and songwriters paint a picture of the world with their sounds, telling stories of joy and heartbreak and of beauty or sorrow. Country music is especially famous for sometimes combining all ...

Jimmie Rodgers was one of the artists who helped popularize country music in the late 1920s. His blend of folk and blues inspired generations of artists. In fact, one could trace the influences of ...

News that country music fans had long dreaded arrived this week: The Ernest Tubb Record Shop, a fixture of Nashville since 1947 and a mainstay in its current Lower Broad location since 1951, will be ...

NASHVILLE-- Walk through the doors at 417 Broadway, into the Ernest Tubb Record Shop, and you step back into another time. It is wonderful almost beyond words, a home of country music, a shrine really ...

The store was also the home for the historic "Midnite Jamboree" radio show that followed the Grand Ole Opry and was important in Loretta Lynn's rise to fame. It was a bad sign for historic music ...