As the year winds down and we look toward 2015, it’s easy to forget all that’s happened over the past 365 days. But 2014 really was a big year in country music. Continue reading…

Happy birthday, Taylor Swift! The singer was born on on Dec. 13, 1989, in Reading, Pa., to Scott, a financial adviser, and Andrea, a former mutual fund marketing executive. Continue reading…

The Boot rounds up today’s top stories from our news partners. Continue reading…

Sisters Martie Maguire and Emily Robison, formerly of the Dixie Chicks, have inked a publishing deal. The siblings have signed with Big Deal Music, after retaining their own publishing rights throughout most of their careers. Continue reading…

The country community celebrated the birth of a lot of new babies in 2014! From first-borns to baby number four (and even a set of twins!), all the new additions are beautiful. Continue reading…

Dr. Ralph Stanley is set to release an album of duets early next year. Continue reading…

Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan and Eric Church are representing country music on TouchTunes’ list of the top-played artists and songs on jukeboxes in 2014. Continue reading…

Country vocalist Dawn Sears, a member of the Grammy-nominated Time Jumpers and backup singer for Vince Gill, has passed away at the age of 53, after a battle with lung cancer. Continue reading…

Sturgill Simpson traded ’80s disco beats for slide guitar at a recent performance on ‘Late Night With Seth Meyers.’ Continue reading…

Darius Rucker‘s ‘Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It’ was a big tune for the singer-songwriter. Rucker co-wrote the debut single from his first country album, ‘Learn to Live,’ with Clay Mills and released it in 2008. The track became Rucker’s first solo Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and also hit No. 1 on the Hot …