American Songwriter

9 Years Ago Today, Country Music Bid Farewell to Its “Gentle Giant” Who Turned His Easygoing Sound Into 17 No. 1 Hits

Country music hitmaker Don Williams, who amassed 17 No. 1 hits and 45 top 10 songs, left us nine years ago today at age 78.
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11 Years Ago, the World Said Goodbye to the Singing Lumberjack Who Toured With Elvis Presley and Wrote Hits for Patsy Cline and Flatt & Scruggs

Eleven years ago, the Canadian-born singer known as Mr. Lumberjack, who wrote songs recorded by country legends, died in ...

1981 No. 1 Hit, Written by Hank Williams Jr., Is Still an Iconic Salute to Wilder Days 45 Years Later

The country classic reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart, and helped inspire a phrase that would become ...

2026 FIBA Women's World Cup: Team USA analysis, rankings, rosters

Sixteen nations will compete in the World Cup in Berlin starting Friday. Team USA and France are front-runners.
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How Linda Ronstadt turned a 1951 Hank Williams classic into another country hit

Decades after Hank Williams recorded it, Linda Ronstadt would revisit the song with help from another country music legend.