In country songs, there's nothing quite like a good cowboy anthem. The boots, the dust, the wide open skies—it's all wrapped up in a sound that feels rugged and timeless. At Drummond Ranch, cowboy ...

Westside Cowboy leans into that instability and trusts the songs to hold—which they do. Repeatedly. Watching eagerness and effort translate, in real time, into something genuinely good is rarer than ...

The Texan artist revives the old-time western song on this appealing and historically minded album of vintage verse set to ...

The top of the country music charts is filled with familiar names: Zach Bryan. Luke Combs. Morgan Wallen. These are country heavyweights — names any country fan would recognize. Then, sitting among ...

George Birge is a star! The Texas native arrived at the American Songwriter studios fresh off his latest No. 1 hit, “Cowboy Songs,” and captivated the room. Getting comfortable on the long gray ...

Steve Cormier is fond of saying he doesn’t write “ride into the sunset songs.” What Cormier, a veteran Western musician, means is that the cowboy songs he pens are rooted in the life of actual, ...

Ashley McBryde hasn’t always been a straight-ahead country traditionalist. She’s flirted with rock guitars and metal-leaning vocal solos, and even tried her hand at a concept album with the release of ...