Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Country music is a wide-ranging genre descriptor, and many ...

The country musician will release a new album, “Brighter Days,” on Nov. 15 It’s his first album of new music in nine years Yoakam collaborated with Post Malone on the album’s lead single, “I Don’t ...

At 68, the Nashville outsider is releasing his first album of original material in nearly a decade, inspired by a joyous shift in his personal life. At 68, the Nashville outsider is releasing his ...

Dwight Yoakam said he gets it. Speaking to a full house at the Miller High Life Theatre in Milwaukee Friday — the latest stop of his "Cosmic Roundup & Rodeo Tour" with the Mavericks — the 68-year-old ...

Through the window of an upper floor office in West Hollywood, the sky changed from cyan to navy and then indigo blue. The lights of Century City flicked on in the distance, and the expansive view of ...