Will the Circle Be Unbroken

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Seeing the Light with Country Gospel

A winding history lesson through country music’s most devout.

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Country music’s early women pioneers, and the keepers of the flame

Tracing a long lineage from Sara Carter to Kacey Musgraves.

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Tracing the complicated roots of “alt-country”

Alt-country, “whatever that is,” is a lot harder to pin down than it might seem on the surface.

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The Long Black Veil—Country’s heart of darkness

Country is goth af.

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Garth Brooks and Country’s Explosion into the Mainstream

An introduction to our new country column, featuring thoughts on country’s mainstream standard-bearer.