“Country Music” Articles

You won’t find Zach Bryan on Christian radio and some churchgoers may blush at his brashness, but Christian themes roll off his tongue as smoothly as curses.

Instinctively, Loretta Lynn seemed to sense that music goes even deeper than hopes and dreams and ideals.

Nick Rynerson finds commonalities between the stories of Christianity and Outlaw Country.

“Born To Run was in my CD player on my wedding day, so now I can’t listen to “Tenth Avenue Freeze Out” without thinking nostalgically about putting on my suit and taking pre-wedding photos with my bride-to-be. In my memory, my wedding day was perfect.”

Popular music generally and Americana in particular are full of Christian relics—images, sounds, and pictures that innately yearn for their spiritual fulfillment.

“Along with being God’s perfect word, the hymnbook of the Bible is an unparalleled artistic achievement that has not only transformed the Church but the entirety of Western music and culture.”

“Country music doesn’t look far enough back, but it does have a traditional inclination that resonates with the heart.”

Country music takes me back to a time when things were supposedly better.

If I had the funds, I would be darn tempted to try to find the town that Morgan is talking about and buy a house there.

I’d like to think that he remembered the Gospel songs that he recorded in 1973 and found Jesus like Johnny Cash.

For the non-Country fan, it would be helpful to know a few basic things about country music that will help the genre make more sense.