Today, 24-year-old Colter Wall, whose dusty baritone voice and deep well of stories are almost single-handedly carrying traditional western music into the future, released his new self-produced album.

Jessie Ware is releasing a new album, Superbloom, on April 10 via Interscope. Now she has shared its second single, “Ride,” a disco-western that interpolates Ennio Morricone’s iconic theme for the ...

Most people have heard his famous yodel in Yahoo.com commercials, but Wylie Gustafson’s fans appreciate him for decades of country western music that he says is inspired by his love for life on the ...

Stan Jones wrote one of Western music’s signature songs, “Ghost Riders in the Sky.” But it’s another Jones composition, the restless “Cowpoke,” that Colter Wall interprets on his upcoming album, ...

Western pop music has always been influenced by artists and styles from around the world. A new book aims to give those varied influences — all of them — their due. Special correspondent Tom Casciato ...

Veteran singer-songwriter Syd Masters had known for years that the Western Writers of America presented a Spur Award for Best Western Song. He just never got around to entering his songs in the ...

Jean Prescott writes songs about women of the West. For that, she has been honored as a modern-day pioneer. Her latest recognition came a few weeks back in the Fort Worth Stockyards district, where ...

Eastern instruments such as the stringed pipa and reeded suona blended with Western orchestral sounds at Jazz at Lincoln ...