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  • Johnny Cash vs. Music Row

    The struggle between American music legend Johnny Cash and mainstream country music takes the spotlight in Controversy: Johnny Cash vs. Music Row....

  • The Passion of the Christ

    After facing a spate of personal crises, actor/director Mel Gibson rededicated himself to Christ and began practicing traditional Catholicism. His reborn...

  • Murder They Wrote

    It's been said that country music consists of "three chords and the truth," and often times the cold, hard truth is revealed in songs on the dark side such as...

  • Kris Kristofferson

    Army Captain, helicopter pilot, aspiring novelist and Oxford University Rhodes scholar, Kris Kristofferson was just about to begin teaching literature at West...

  • "Take This Job and Shove It"

    It was the era of gas shortages, recession, strikes and corporate downsizing. The 1977 Johnny Paycheck hit of the David Allen Coe-penned song "Take This Job...

  • "Would You Lay With Me In A Field of Stone"

    The mid-1970s was a time of sexual independence and freedom for women -- adult women, that is. Budding country ingénue, Tanya Tucker had already turned heads...

  • "Independence Day"

    In the early 1990s, up-and-coming artist Martina McBride had already recorded such songs as "Cheap Whiskey" and "My Baby Loves Me," showing a softer, sensitive...

  • "John Walker Blues"

    On Sept. 11, 2001, the entire world watched as the Twin Towers fell, killing scores of innocent Americans. U.S.-led efforts to hunt down the perpetrators in...

  • "Okie from Muskogee"

    In 1969, as America was in turmoil, reeling from the effects of high-profile assassinations, racial tensions and divisions over the Vietnam War, Merle Haggard...

  • "Indian Outlaw"

    From the release of his second album Not a Moment Too Soon, Tim McGraw's rambunctious single "Indian Outlaw" made him a star in 1994. Written by John D....

  • "Stand By Your Man"

    Tammy Wynette released "Stand by Your Man" in November 1968. The song's message of a woman's loyalty to her man despite his infidelity and neglect struck a...

  • "The Pill"

    Loretta Lynn, the first woman ever to win the prestigious CMA award for entertainer or the year, was known as a champion for women with such songs as "Don't...

  • "Courtesy of the Red, White & Blue"

    In the spring and summer of 2002, country superstar Toby Keith was putting the finishing touches on an album. At the last minute, he recorded "Courtesy of The...
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