SAMPLED#Country
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Stories tagged #Country on Sampled — sound, style, and scenes, all in one place.
Dolly Parton's career, start to finish: the songs, the albums, and the coat she gave everybody
From Locust Ridge radio to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame — the records that matter, the copyrights she refused to give away, and what a working artist can actually take from sixty years of it.
The Opry is giving Dolly Parton back to the room that made her: how to watch tonight
Tonight the Grand Ole Opry dedicates its Saturday show to Dolly Parton, with Carly Pearce, Kathy Mattea, Molly Tuttle, Dan Tyminski and more. Here is the start time, the lineup and every free way to watch or listen.
Dolly Parton's impact on music: the songwriter who rewrote what a country star could own
She built a catalog, a business and a blueprint — and you can trace the line from "Jolene" and "I Will Always Love You" straight through Reba, Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert, Kacey Musgraves, Miley Cyrus and Lainey Wilson.
Country has the entire Hot 100 top five — the interesting part is how the records are produced
For the first time since 1958, every song in the Hot 100's top five is country. Ella Langley's "Choosin' Texas" is at No. 1 for a 16th week. The chart story is easy; the production story is the one worth having.
Country's biggest records are being cut in living rooms — including one at Vince Gill's house
Kenny Whitmire recorded his new single with a Country Music Hall of Famer in a Nashville home studio. That location detail explains more about modern country production than most chart analysis does.
Dolly Parton at 80 is still doing the most, and it still works
A new all-star cut of "Light of a Clear Blue Morning," a travel stop opening in Tennessee, a summer show at the Stampede, and a children's hospital getting the check. A feature on one of the busiest people in music, period.