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‘She should have been queen of the world!’ Readers remember Dolly Parton

From quiet acts of generosity and life-changing gigs to singing for a professional puppeteer, Dolly Parton has had a profound impact on readers’ lives

The Guardian - UK

Five songs you didn’t know country music icon Dolly Parton wrote

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The Independent UK

“If James Burton recorded that song one more time, it would not have sounded the same. They caught lightning in a bottle”: An all-star guitar panel choose their Telecaster Mount Rushmore – its greatest players, their greatest tracks

Pros pick their favorite Tele riffs and solos and decide who should be carved into that massive “Telecaster Mount Rushmore” that exists only in our deranged minds

Guitar World

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Boy George blows it all up for slop

The singer should have at least had the decency to make his new agitprop single by hand

Salon

Why was Tim McGraw 'sobbing' in the street?

Tim McGraw started “sobbing” in the street in New York City when he found out he was being inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

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"Future generations will consider it one of the most important recordings of all time." Rising Southern rock star Marcus King picks the soundtrack of his life

Singer/guitarist Marcus King picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and names the song that brought him to tears - even though he didn't understand the words

Louder

In Pictures: French bulldog mix Petunia wins World's Ugliest Dog Contest 2025

"Ugly" by name; fierce by nature. Here are the highlights of this year's World's Ugliest Dog Contest.

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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy: ‘With music, we give ourselves up. It’s when we’re allowed to be ourselves’

Revered American musician Will Oldham on recording his new album with some of Nashville’s finest, helping Johnny Cash sing I See a Darkness, and his dismay at US politics

The Guardian - UK

JD Vance has a walk-on song. It’s about ‘liberating’ America

The song’s origins make it an odd fit for the Trump campaign

The Independent UK

“People should really do their homework and learn about the history of music and what came before whatever style you wanna do”: Logan Ledger on paying his dues – and what he learned from Clarence White and Merle Haggard

The golden-throated Nashville-via-California singer-songwriter shares his love of the B-Bender and discusses how the greats informed his dynamic playing style

Guitar World

Country music: the artists to know before Beyoncé’s country-inspired album Renaissance 2 drops

Beyoncé’s new album, Cowboy Carter, is about to convert a lot of her fans to country music. Get ahead of the pack with our pick of the songs and artists that have defined the genre

Evening Standard

Midnight Chicken driving Newcastle bluegrass revival

'It was either going to be horrendous or beautiful.'

Newcastle Herald

The very best alternative Christmas 2024 songs: from Kate Bush to Phoebe Bridgers, Slow Club to Mazzy Star

Change up your trad festive playlist with these left-field, but still Christmassy, tunes

Evening Standard

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy: ‘I can’t regret working with R Kelly – it made me better able to judge my behaviour and that of others’

The artist also known as Will Oldham reveals his favourite children’s song, his love of volcanoes – and why he covered Mariah Carey and Sinéad O’Connor

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Protests give Jason Aldean too much credit for his terrible country song

Aldean himself comes from Macon, Georgia, a city with among the highest violent crime rates in the U.S. His lyrics are banal, and unlike most good country music, they don’t tell a story.

Guitar World

Marty Stuart: “It started with my Clarence White Telecaster. That old guitar is kinda like an invisible band member. It has a tone of its own”

The country legend on channeling the Byrds’ guitar tones, how YouTube helps him cope with the loss of Johnny Cash and finding the amp he’d been searching for all his life

Los Angeles Times

Longtime Bakersfield musician and wife found dead in desert east of California City

A longtime Bakersfield musician and his wife were recently found dead, stranded on a dirt road in a remote stretch of desert east of California City, authorities said.

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