Forty-seven years ago today, the lead singer and autoharp player for one of the most important groups in country history died.

Today’s country music genre had its beginnings in the 1920s with the popularization of two types of music: rural white bluegrass or “hillbilly” music and “western” or “cowboy” music. The two styles ...

The carousel of photos on Instagram, which included two shots of the trio, as well as one with Yoakam’s opening act Junior Brown, received several positive responses in the comments on that platform. ...