More than 110,000 fans, students and partners at the Oct. 18 Michigan vs. Washington home football game collected over 23.5 ...

Ollie Imogene “Jean” Shepard, the trailblazing Country Music Hall of Famer who scored Top 10 hits with songs like “Second Fiddle (To an Old Guitar)” and “I’ll Take the Dog,” was born on this day in ...

Like many families in the 1940s, Frazier’s family relocated from Oklahoma to California during the Dust Bowl era. There, the “Okies” lived in ramshackle camps and scratched out a living doing whatever ...

According to the Country Music Hall of Fame, Written by Fred Rose in 1945, "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" had been recorded by many artists over the years—including Roy Acuff, Hank Williams, Ferlin ...

Ferlin Eugene Husky (December 3, 1925 – March 17, 2011) was an early American country music singer who was equally adept at the genres of traditional honky-tonk, ballads, spoken recitations, and ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

The 12th annual Next Generation Sons and Daughters of Country Legends is kicking off another year with a star studded lineup for fans! Melissa Luman and Hawkshaw Hawkins Jr. joined us with more ...

His songs included the novelty number “Alley Oop,” the Oak Ridge Boys’ hit “Elvira” and “Beneath Still Waters” for Emmylou Harris. By Bill Friskics-Warren Dallas Frazier, a songwriter of great ...

Dallas Frazier, the country songwriter behind enduring hits like “Elvira” and “Beneath Still Waters,” died Jan. 14, his family announced on Facebook. He was 82. Born Oct. 27, 1939, in Spiro, Oklahoma, ...

Frazier also co-wrote four No. 1 hits for Charley Pride. By Jessica Nicholson Songwriter Dallas Frazier, known for penning hits including The Oak Ridge Boys‘ 1981 classic “Elvira,” and Gene Watson‘s ...

Ferlin Husky isn’t talked about much nowadays. However, he was a skilled country musician of the 20th century, whose versatility enabled him to jump from genre to genre with enviable smoothness.

#100. ‘Good Hearted Woman’ by Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson | Artist: Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson – Billboard rank: #100. Jennings convinced Nelson to record the iconic song during a poker ...