Billboard's staff picks the greatest country songs of the past century that have made us love, cry, drink and dance.

In The Air Tonight is a seminal era-defining song and its gated drum effect would go on to dominate the sound of ’80s pop and rock, influencing artists such as David Bowie, Kate Bush and New Order ...

Don Felder looks back on his time in The Eagles as an "incredible blessing," even after being fired, as he releases a new ...

He cut a simple demo of the chord progression ... 12-string guitar. And then there's a two-minute guitar solo on the end. But it turned out that it got a lot of airplay on AM, thank goodness.” ...

Achariya Dulyapaiboon, better known as Amp, is a female songwriter and producer who has written hundreds of songs for Thai artists. Just one of the many hits penned by Achariya has gained over 100 ...

The song was co-written with Charles John Quarto, a beat poet and mystic whom Murphey met while crashing at Jerry Jeff Walker ...

It went triple platinum, landing two No. 1 singles on the Billboard country chart and five singles ... Swift started tinkering on the guitar, and after learning three chords, she wrote her first ...

During the 1980s, as metal of all varieties rose up the charts, W.A.S.P. stood apart ... As Lawless hits the first chords, stagehands tug on the banners that usually form a skull-and-blood ...

You can do a lot with just a guitar and a loop pedal ... tuned pop factory dominating contemporary charts,” it says. “When he hits a bum chord in Take It Back, it actually makes me like ...

Mei Semones is a singer-songwriter and guitarist who grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She began taking piano lessons at a young age before switching to guitar and playing in jazz combos in high school.

Fender's Dreadnought Starter Pack is the perfect entry point for any aspiring guitarist, and makes a great gift to boot.

Named after Roy Rogers’ horse, “Trigger” became central to Willie Nelson’s music, and these songs wouldn’t be the same without it.