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Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift broke through in 2006 with her hit song "Tim McGraw," recorded when she was still 16 years old. Over the next decade she went beyond country to become one of the world's biggest pop…

Brad Paisley

Country music and video star Brad Paisley has cranked out more than a dozen number one hits since entering the scene in 1999, from "I'm Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin' Song)" to "Celebrity" and "Welcome…

Eric Church

Country music star Eric Church is known as the bad boy who did the hit songs "Smoke a Little Smoke" and "Drink in My Hand." He got his first record contract in 2005 and cracked the charts in 2006,…

Clint Black Biography

Clint Blacksinger, songwriterBorn: 2/4/1962Birthplace: Long Branch, New Jersey Raised in a suburb of Houston, Texas, he helped spark the surge in popularity of country music in the early 1990's. He…

Owen Bradley Biography

Owen Bradley(Williams Owen Bradley)record producerBorn: 10/21/1915Birthplace: Westmoreland, Tennessee One of country music's pioneers, he opened the first recording studio on Nashville's Music Row in…

Rascal Flatts

Rascal Flatts shot to stardom with their debut album in 2000, and the success of their next releases, Melt and Feels Like Today, made them one of country music's top-selling acts by the end of 2004…

Loretta Lynn

Loretta Lynn is the country music legend whose life story, as told in her 1976 autobiography Coal Miner's Daughter, was almost as well-known as her music. Born and raised in the poor coal mining…

Charlie Daniels

Burly, bearded, and cowboy-hatted, Charlie Daniels was a popular Southern rocker and country music artist who reached his greatest fame with "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" in 1979.The Country Music…

Gram Parsons

Name at birth: Ingram Cecil Connor IIISinger and songwriter Gram Parsons died at the age of 26, after a short but promising career that injected country music into the 1960s rock scene. Parsons came…

Reba McEntire

Reba McEntire first reached the country music charts in 1976, but it wasn't until 1984 that she had hit records in "How Blue" and "Somebody Should Leave." By 1987 she had been named the Country…