Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Country music is a wide-ranging genre descriptor, and many ...

How did Dwight Yoakam get his start? Yoakam first broke through in the mid-’80s with Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc., an album ...

Dwight Yoakam has been making top-shelf country music for four decades. Today (October 22), the Kentucky native turns 68 years old, and, with a new album on the way later this year, he shows no signs ...

Yoakam has recorded a harmonious new duet with Post Malone. Morris is stretching beyond country's borders. And Thompson — half of the duo Thompson Square — looks back to the roots of honky-tonk. Rock ...

Through the window of an upper floor office in West Hollywood, the sky changed from cyan to navy and then indigo blue. The lights of Century City flicked on in the distance, and the expansive view of ...

On this day (October 23) in 1956, Dwight Yoakam was born in Pikeville, Kentucky. Over the years, he has introduced new generations of fans to classic songs and artists with covers of the likes of Hank ...

From the signature sound of the Chicago horns, its iconic vocalists and a few dozen ever-classic songs, the band’s concerts are considered celebrations. “This is an evening with Chicago, so it’s all ...