Although Haggard didn’t clarify which “Independence Day” he was talking about, it stands to reason that he meant Martina ...

Rising country star Zach Top ducked into a Nashville dive bar for an impromptu performance of this '70s Merle Haggard classic ...

Brooks would know because Bastian wrote some of his biggest hits — “Unanswered Prayers” and “Rodeo.” Bastian died on Sunday.

Toto’s 2025 setlist focuses on the heritage of the band. The setlist was interesting. Compared to how it was curated for Australia in 2019 this time Toto kept to the albums of the 1900s. Mind you, ...

Last week, fans were left concerned when one half of the country music duo Brooks & Dunn's Ronnie Dunn abruptly exited the ...

“If one looks down on the list of music’s greatest writers of all time ... He wrote songs for Merle Haggard and David Frizzell, Tammy Wynette, Conway Twitty, Tracy Byrd, Sammy Kershaw ...

They dropped their album "Reboot" in 2019 and "Reboot II" in 2024, a greatest ... of steady hits (were revived) creates a tie back to how artists like Dwight Yoakam, Merle Haggard or Emmylou ...

Garth Brooks has broken his silence after songwriter Larry Bastian, who worked with the country star on hit songs like “Rodeo ...

A man who helped write two of Garth Brooks‘ most well-known songs has died. In fact, songwriter Larry Bastian is responsible ...

The 500 songs he published were a mix of rockabilly, honky-tonk, outlaw country and country gospel, and some were covered by ...

According to the Record, he worked on a farm and as a cowboy before becoming a biologist for the Department of Agriculture for Kern and Tulare Counties. In the 1970s, he began writing music for ...