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• Ace in the Hole
• Roy Acuff
  Roy Acuff
  Roy Claxton Acuff was an American country music singer, fiddler, and promoter. Known as the King of Country Music, Acuff is often credited with moving the genre from its early string band and "hoedown" format to the star singer-based format that helped make it internationally successful.Acuff...
  
   (1903–1992)
• Kay Adams (born 1941)
• Ryan Adams
  Ryan Adams
  David Ryan Adams is an American alt-country/rock singer-songwriter, from Jacksonville, North Carolina. Initially part of the group Whiskeytown, Adams left the band and released his first solo album Heartbreaker in 2000...
  
   (born 1974)
• Trace Adkins
  Trace Adkins
  Tracy Darrell "Trace" Adkins is an American country music artist. He made his debut in 1996 with the album Dreamin' Out Loud, released on Capitol Records Nashville. Since then, Adkins has released seven more studio albums and two Greatest Hits compilations...
  
   (born 1962)
• David "Stringbean" Akeman (1915–1973)
• Rhett Akins
  Rhett Akins
  Thomas Rhett Akins Sr. is an American country singer and songwriter. Signed to Decca Records between 1994 and 1997, he released two albums for the label , followed by 1998's What Livin's All About on MCA Nashville. Friday Night in Dixie was released in 2002 on Audium Entertainment...
  
   (born 1969)
• Alabama
  Alabama (band)
  Alabama is a country music and southern rock band from Fort Payne, Alabama, United States. The band was founded in 1969 by Randy Owen and his cousin Teddy Gentry , soon joined by Jeff Cook...
  
  
• Jason Aldean
  Jason Aldean
  Jason Aldine Williams is an American country music singer, known professionally as Jason Aldean. Since 2005, Aldean has recorded for Broken Bow Records, an independent record label for which he has released four albums and twelve singles...
  
   (born 1977)
• Daniele Alexander
  Daniele Alexander
  Daniele Alexander is an American country music singer. She began her career as a teenager, performing jazz initially before moving to Las Vegas, Nevada to sing in casinos. She also charted in the Top 20 on the Billboard charts with the single "She's There", a single from her 1989 Mercury Records...
  
   (born 1954)
• Jessi Alexander
  Jessi Alexander
  Jessica "Jessi" Alexander is an American country music singer-songwriter. She has had her songs recorded by Patty Loveless, Trisha Yearwood and Little Big Town. She also launched her own recording career in 2004...
  
   (born 1972)
• Gary Allan
  Gary Allan
  Gary Allan Herzberg is an American country music artist, known professionally as Gary Allan.Signed to Decca Records in 1996, Allan made his debut on the United States country music scene with the release of his single "Her Man", the lead-off to his gold-certified debut album Used Heart for Sale,...
  
   (born 1967)
• Susie Allanson
  Susie Allanson
  Susie Allanson is an American country music singer and actress. Susie was raised in Burbank and lived in Las Vegas from 1963-71. Before beginning her singing career in the mid-1970s, she toured as part of Jesus Christ Superstar and appeared in the film of the same name...
  
   (born 1952)
• Deborah Allen
  Deborah Allen
  Deborah Allen is an American country music singer. Since 1976, Allen has issued 12 albums and charted 14 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, most notably the 1983 crossover hit "Baby I Lied" which reached #4 on the country charts and #26 on the Billboard Hot 100. Allen has also...
  
   (born 1953)
• Terry Allen (born 1943)
• Rex Allen
  Rex Allen
  Rex Elvie Allen was an American film actor, singer and songwriter, known as the Arizona Cowboy, particularly known as the narrator in many Disney nature and Western film productions. For contributions to the recording industry, Allen was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.-Family...
  
   (1920–1999)
• Allman Brothers
• Bill Anderson (born 1937)
• John Anderson
  John Anderson (musician)
  John David Anderson is an American country music artist with a successful career that has lasted more than 30 years...
  
   (born 1954)
• Keith Anderson
  Keith Anderson
  Keith Anderson is an American country music artist. Before signing to a record deal, Anderson was one of several co-writers on "Beer Run ", a duet by Garth Brooks and George Jones, released in late 2001. Anderson was signed as a recording artist to Arista Nashville in 2004...
  
   (born 1968)
• Liz Anderson
  Liz Anderson
  Liz Anderson was anAmerican country music singer/songwriter who was one of a wave of a new generation of female vocalists in the genre during the 1960's to write and record her own songs on a regular basis. Writing in The New York Times Bill Friskics-Warren noted, "Like her contemporary Loretta...
  
   (born 1930)
• Lynn Anderson
  Lynn Anderson
  Lynn Rene Anderson is an American country music singer and equestrian known for a string of hits throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, most notably her Grammy Award-winning, worldwide mega-hit, " Rose Garden." Helped by her regular exposure on national television, Anderson was one of the most...
  
   (born 1947)
• Elisabeth Andreassen
  Elisabeth Andreassen
  Elisabeth Gunilla Andreassen - also known as just "Bettan" - is a Swedish-Norwegian singer who has finished both first and second in the Eurovision Song Contest....
  
   (born 1958)
• Jessica Andrews
  Jessica Andrews
  Jessica Danielle Andrews is an American country music singer. At age 15 in mid-1999, she made her debut on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts with the single "I Will Be There for You", from her debut album Heart Shaped World, released in 1999 on DreamWorks Records Nashville.Andrews...
  
   (born 1983)
• Lisa Angelle
  Lisa Angelle
  Lisa Angelle is an American country music singer-songwriter. During the 1980s and 1990s, Angelle wrote songs for several country artists including Wynonna Judd, who reached number one on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in 1991 with "I Saw the Light", co-written by pop singer...
  
   (born 1965)
• Archer/Park
  Archer/Park
  -Track listing:#"We Got a Lot in Common" – 3:07#"Where There's Smoke" – 2:54#"You Don't Know Where This Heart's Been" – 3:59#"I'm Not Crazy" – 2:55...
  
  
• Katie Armiger
  Katie Armiger
  Kaitlyn Michelle "Katie" Armiger is a country artist from Sugar Land, Texas. She was first inspired to pursue country music after winning a Houston, Texas city-wide competition for young country singers...
  
   (born 1991)
• Eddy Arnold
  Eddy Arnold
  Richard Edward Arnold , known professionally as Eddy Arnold, was an American country music singer who performed for six decades. He was a so-called Nashville sound innovator of the late 1950s, and scored 147 songs on the Billboard country music charts, second only to George Jones. He sold more...
  
   (1918–2008)
• Gay Kayler
  Gay Kayler
  Gay Kayler is an Australian country music entertainer and recording artist. Gay used her maiden name in her professional career until 1978, when she changed the spelling to Kayler to maintain a consistency of pronunciation.- A blossoming career :Gay comes from a musical family...
  
   Ashcroft (born 1941)
• Chet Atkins
  Chet Atkins
  Chester Burton Atkins , known as Chet Atkins, was an American guitarist and record producer who, along with Owen Bradley, created the smoother country music style known as the Nashville sound, which expanded country's appeal to adult pop music fans as well.Atkins's picking style, inspired by Merle...
  
   (1924–2001)
• Rodney Atkins
  Rodney Atkins
  Rodney Allan Atkins is an American country music artist. Signed to Curb Records in 1996, he charted his first single on the Billboard country chart that year, but did not release an album until 2003's Honesty, which included the number 4 hit "Honesty ".If You're Going Through Hell, his second...
  
   (born 1969)
• Bryan Austin
  Bryan Austin
  -Track listing:#"Radio Active" – 3:20#"You're Right, I'm Wrong" – 2:44#"That's What She Said" – 3:45#"Is It Just Me" – 3:55...
  
   (born 1967)
• Julian Austin
  Julian Austin (musician)
  Julian Austin, born August 24, 1963 in Sussex, New Brunswick, Canada, is a country music singer. He has released more than fifteen singles in his native Canada, including the Number One hit "Little Ol' Kisses"...
  
   (born 1963)
• Sherrié Austin
  Sherrié Austin
  Sherrie Veronica Krenn is an Australian actress and singer, known professionally as Sherrié Austin. Active as a singer since her teenage years, Sherrié initially recorded as one half of the duo Colorhaus, which also featured Phil Radford...
  
   (born 1970)
• Gene Autry
  Gene Autry
  Orvon Grover Autry , better known as Gene Autry, was an American performer who gained fame as The Singing Cowboy on the radio, in movies and on television for more than three decades beginning in the 1930s...
  
   (1907–1998)
• Hoyt Axton
  Hoyt Axton
  Hoyt Wayne Axton was an American country music singer-songwriter, and a film and television actor. He became prominent in the early 1960s, establishing himself on the West Coast as a folk singer with an earthy style and powerful voice. As he matured, some of his songwriting efforts became well...
  
   (1938–1999)
• Steve Azar
  Steve Azar
  Stephen Thomas "Steve" Azar is an American country music artist. Azar was signed to River North Nashville in 1995, and he released his debut album on February 27, 1996. After leaving River North, Azar took time away from his music...
  
   (born 1964)
• Star De Azlan
  Star De Azlan
  Star De Azlan is an American country music singer. Signed to Curb Records in 2007, she released her debut single "She's Pretty" in early 2008; the song peaked at #51 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts....
  
   (born 1986)

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• Billy Ray Cyrus
  Billy Ray Cyrus
  William "Billy" Ray Cyrus is an American country music singer, songwriter, actor and philanthropist, who helped make country music a worldwide phenomenon...
  
   (born 1961)
• Baillie & The Boys
  Baillie & the Boys
  Baillie & the Boys is an American country music group that gained prominence in the late 1980s. The band's original lineup consisted of Kathie Baillie , her husband, Michael Bonagura , and Alan LeBoeuf . Baillie & the Boys has recorded five studio albums and charted ten Top-40 singles on the U.S...
  
  
• Baker & Myers
  Baker & Myers
  Baker & Myers was an American country music duo composed of singer-songwriters Gary Baker and Frank J. Myers, who first worked as songwriters for other country music artists; one of their most notable compositions is John Michael Montgomery's 1994 crossover hit "I Swear", which won the Grammy Award...
  
  
• David Ball (born 1953)
• Frankie Ballard
  Frankie Ballard
  Frankie Ballard is an American country music singer. He is signed to Reprise Records Nashville, for which he has released two singles and an album.-Biography:...
  
   (born 1983)
• Veronica Ballestrini
  Veronica Ballestrini
  Veronica Ballestrini is an Italian-American country music singer and songwriter from Waterford, Connecticut. Her self-made success story has caught national attention as Jon Caramanica wrote in the New York Times, "...When someone like Ms...
  
   (born 1991)
• The Bama Band
  The Bama Band
  The Bama Band is an American country music group composed of Lamar Morris , Wayne "Animal" Turner , Clifford E. "Cowboy" Eddie Long , Jerry McKinney , Vernon Derrick , Ray Barrickman , Billy Earheart and William Claude Marshall...
  
  
• The Band Perry
  The Band Perry
  The Band Perry, an American country music group, is composed of siblings Kimberly Perry , Reid Perry and Neil Perry...
  
  
• Bandana
  Bandana (country band)
  Bandana was an American country music band composed of Lonnie Wilson , Jerry Fox , Tim Menzies , Joe Van Dyke , and Jerry Ray Johnston . After Menzies, Johnston and Van Dyke left, they were replaced with Michael Black and Billy Kemp on guitars, and Bob Mummert on drums. Between 1982 and 1986, they...
  
  
• Bobby Bare
  Bobby Bare
  Robert Joseph Bare is an American country music singer and songwriter. He is the father of Bobby Bare, Jr., also a musician.-Early career:...
  
   (born 1935)
• Mandy Barnett
  Mandy Barnett
  Amanda Carol "Mandy" Barnett is a country music singer and stage actress. In her musical career, she has released three albums and charted three singles on the Billboard country charts. Her highest-charting country single is "Now That's All Right With Me", which reached #43 in 1996...
  
   (born 1975)
• Joe Barnhill
  Joe Barnhill
  Joe Barnhill is an American country music singer-songwriter. Between 1990 and 1997, Barnhill released two studio albums. He also charted two singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart...
  
   (born 1965)
• Jeff Bates
  Jeff Bates
  Jeffery Wayne "Jeff" Bates is an American country music artist. Signed to RCA Records in 2003, Bates released his debut album Rainbow Man that year. A second album, Leave the Light On, was released in 2005 on RCA. He left RCA in 2006. This album was followed by Jeff Bates in 2008 on the...
  
   (born 1963)
• Bekka & Billy
  Bekka & Billy
  Bekka & Billy was an American country music duo consisting of singer-songwriters Bekka Bramlett and Billy Burnette, who first worked together as members of Fleetwood Mac. Their eponymous debut album was released by Almo Sounds in April 1997...
  
  
• The Bellamy Brothers
• Ridley Bent
  Ridley Bent
  Ridley Bent is a Canadian country singer-songwriter. Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Bent was raised throughout Canada in a military family. He formally launched his musical career in 2000....
  
  
• Dierks Bentley
  Dierks Bentley
  Dierks Bentley is an American country music artist who has been signed to Capitol Records Nashville since 2003. That year, he released his self-titled debut album. Both it and its follow-up, 2005's Modern Day Drifter, are certified platinum in the United States. A third album, 2006's Long Trip...
  
   (born 1975)
• Stephanie Bentley
  Stephanie Bentley
  Stephanie Kay Bentley is an American country music artist. She made her debut in 1996 as a duet partner on Ty Herndon's single "Heart Half Empty", which peaked at #21 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts...
  
   (born 1963)
• Barbi Benton
  Barbi Benton
  Barbi Benton is an American model, actress and singer.-Career:She was featured on the cover of Playboy several times and in nude photo layouts in the March 1970, December 1973, and January 1975 issues, although she was never one of the magazine's "Playmates of the Month".Benton is known for her...
  
   (born 1950)
• Matraca Berg
  Matraca Berg
  Matraca Maria Berg is an American country music singer and songwriter. She has released five albums: three for RCA Records, one for Rising Tide Records and one for Dualtone Records, and has charted in the top 40 of the U.S. Billboard country charts with "Baby, Walk On" and "The Things You Left...
  
   (born 1964)
• John Berry (born 1959)
• Big House
  Big House (band)
  Big House is an American country music band based in Bakersfield, California. Grounded in the Bakersfield Sound, originally, the band consisted of Monty Byrom , David Neuhauser , Chuck Seaton , Tanner Byrom , Sonny California , and Ron Mitchell...
  
  
• Big Kenny (born 1963)
• Big Tom
  Big Tom
  Tom McBride better known as Big Tom is an Irish country music singer, guitarist, and saxophone player. Established since 1966 he is currently front man of the Irish showband Big Tom and The Mainliners...
  
   (born 1936)
• Big & Rich
  Big & Rich
  Big & Rich is an American country music duo composed of Big Kenny and John Rich. Both members alternate as lead vocalists and play rhythm guitar...
  
  
• Billy Hill
  Billy Hill (supergroup)
  Billy Hill was an American country music group founded by Dennis Robbins , Bob DiPiero , and John Scott Sherrill , along with Reno Kling and Martin Parker . Before the group's foundation, Robbins had been a member of The Rockets...
  
  
• Clint Black
  Clint Black
  Clint Patrick Black is an American country music singer-songwriter, record producer, multi-instrumentalist and occasional actor. Signed to RCA Records in 1989, Black made his debut with his Killin' Time album, which produced four straight Number One singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country...
  
   (born 1962)
• Lisa Hartman Black (born 1956)
• Black Tie
  Black Tie (band)
  Black Tie was an American country rock supergroup composed of Jimmy Griffin, Randy Meisner and Billy Swan. The group's first album, When the Night Falls, was released in December 1990 by Bench Records...
  
  
• BlackHawk
• Jason Blaine
  Jason Blaine
  Jason Blaine is a Canadian country music singer/songwriter from Pembroke, Ontario. The winner of Project Discovery 2002, Jason's top 10 singles include "Rock In My Boot" and "Flirtin' With Me."-Career:...
  
   (born 1980)
• Paul Blake
  Paul Blake
  Paul Blake is the current Chairman of the British Basketball League, succeeding Vince Macaulay-Razaq in 2006, as well as working as the current Managing Director of the Newcastle Eagles basketball franchise....
  
   (born 1989)
• Blake & Brian
  Blake & Brian
  -Track listing:#"If Guitars Were Guns" – 2:21#"Why, Why, Why" – 2:33#"Saving My Love" – 3:43#"The Wish" – 3:44...
  
  
• Blue County
  Blue County
  Blue County was an American country music duo composed of actor-singers Aaron Benward and Scott Reeves. They released their self-titled debut album in 2004 on Curb Records. This album produced four singles on the Billboard country singles charts, including the #11 "Good Little Girls"...
  
  
• Bluefield
  Bluefield
  Bluefield is the name of some places in the United States of America:*Bluefield, Virginia*Bluefield, West Virginia-See also:*Bluefields, a similarly named city in Nicaragua's South Atlantic Autonomous Region...
  
  
• Suzy Bogguss
  Suzy Bogguss
  Susan Kay "Suzy" Bogguss is an American country music singer. In the 1980s and 90s she released one platinum and three gold albums and charted six top ten singles, winning the Academy of Country Music's award for Top New Female Vocalist and the Country Music Association's Horizon Award.After...
  
   (born 1956)
• Jason Boland & the Stragglers
  Jason Boland & the Stragglers
  Jason Boland & the Stragglers are an American Texas Country/Red Dirt group featuring Harrah, Oklahoma native Jason Boland , Roger Ray , Brad Rice , and Grant Tracy...
  
  
• Bomshel
  Bomshel
  Bomshel is an American country music duo founded in 2004 by lead singer Buffy "Buf" Lawson and fiddle player Kristy Osmunson. Signed to Curb Records in 2004, Bomshel's original lineup charted four single on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, and recorded an unreleased album called Bomshel Stomp...
  
  
• James Bonamy
  James Bonamy
  James Michael Bonamy is an American country music artist. He released two studio albums James Michael Bonamy (born April 29, 1972) is an American country music artist. He released two studio albums James Michael Bonamy (born April 29, 1972) is an American country music artist. He released two...
  
   (born 1972)
• Johnny Bond
  Johnny Bond
  Cyrus Whitfield Bond , known professionally as Johnny Bond, was a popular American country music entertainer of the 1940s through the 1960s.-Biography:...
  
   (1915-1978)
• Larry Boone
  Larry Boone
  Larry Eugene Boone is an American country music artist. Between 1985 and 1993, Boone recorded five major label studio albums, in addition to charting several singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles charts. His highest-charting single, "Don't Give Candy to a Stranger", reached #10 in 1988...
  
   (born 1956)
• Wade Bowen
  Wade Bowen
  Wade Bowen is an American Texas Country/Red Dirt singer from Waco, Texas.Bowen was a member of the band, West 84, with friend Matt Miller, before the band was re-aligned 2001. He released his first album in 2002, Try Not To Listen, which became a regional hit in Texas. He released his first live...
  
  
• Boxcar Willie
  Boxcar Willie
  Boxcar Willie, born as Lecil Travis Martin was an American country music singer, who sang in the "old-time hobo" music style, complete with dirty face, overalls, and a floppy hat...
  
   (1931-1999)
• Boy Howdy
  Boy Howdy
  Boy Howdy was an American country music band. It was founded in 1990 in Los Angeles, California, United States by Jeffrey Steele , Hugh Wright , and brothers Cary and Larry Park...
  
  
• BR549
• Bill 'Cowboy Rambler' Boyd
  Bill 'Cowboy Rambler' Boyd
  William Lemuel Boyd was an American Western style singer and guitarist.-Biography:...
  
   (1914-1977)
• Michelle Branch
  Michelle Branch
  Michelle Jacquet DeSevren Branch is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actress. During the early 2000s, she released two top-selling albums, The Spirit Room and Hotel Paper, and was subsequently nominated for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2003...
  
   (born 1983)
• Paul Brandt
  Paul Brandt
  Paul Rennée Belobersycky is a Canadian country music artist, known professionally as Paul Brandt. Growing up in Calgary, he was a pediatric RN at the time of his big break...
  
   (born 1972)
• Kippi Brannon
  Kippi Brannon
  Kippi Rolynn Binkley is an American country music singer known as Kippi Brannon. She made her debut on the country music scene as a teenager, releasing four singles on MCA Records in the early 1980s before leaving her career in favor of a college education...
  
   (born 1966)
• Lee Brice
  Lee Brice
  Lee Brice is an American country music artist. Signed to Curb Records' Asylum-Curb division since 2007, Brice has released four singles to country radio, all four of which have charted on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. The fourth of these, "Love Like Crazy," holds the record for the...
  
   (born 1980)
• Catherine Britt
  Catherine Britt
  Catherine Britt is a country music artist who has had success in both her native Australia and in the United States. She was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, and moved to Nashville, Tennessee, United States in 2004...
  
   (born 1984)
• Chad Brock
  Chad Brock
  Chad Brock is an American country music artist and disc jockey. Before beginning his musical career in the late 1990s, he was a professional wrestler in World Championship Wrestling , until an injury forced him to retire....
  
   (born 1963)
• Dean Brody
  Dean Brody
  Dean Brody is a Canadian country music artist. Signed to Broken Bow Records in 2008, Brody made his debut later that year with the single "Brothers"...
  
   (born 1974 or 1975)
• Lisa Brokop
  Lisa brokop
  Lisa Brokop is a Canadian country music singer/songwriter and actress. Active since 1990 in the country music field, she has released a total of six studio albums, and has charted more than twenty singles on the country music charts in her native Canada...
  
   (born 1973)
• Garth Brooks
  Garth Brooks
  Troyal Garth Brooks , best known as Garth Brooks, is an American country music artist who helped make country music a worldwide phenomenon. His eponymous first album was released in 1989 and peaked at number 2 in the US country album chart while climbing to number 13 on the Billboard 200 album chart...
  
   (born 1962)
• Kix Brooks
  Kix Brooks
  Leon Eric "Kix" Brooks III , is an American country music artist, best known for being one half of the duo Brooks & Dunn.-Early life:...
  
   (born 1955)
• Brooks & Dunn
  Brooks & Dunn
  Brooks & Dunn was an American country music duo consisting of Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn, who were both vocalists and songwriters. They were paired by record producer Tim DuBois in 1990. Before the duo's foundation, both members of the duo were solo recording artists...
  
  
• Marty Brown
  Marty Brown (singer)
  Dennis Marty Brown is an American country music artist. Active between 1991 and 1996, he has released four studio albums and has charted one single on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts....
  
   (born 1965)
• Shannon Brown
  Shannon Brown
  Shannon Brown is an American professional basketball player who plays at the shooting guard and point guard positions. He last played in the National Basketball Association for the Los Angeles Lakers. Brown attended Proviso East High School in Maywood, Illinois, was named Illinois Mr...
  
   (born 1985)
• T. Graham Brown
  T. Graham Brown
  Anthony "T." Graham Brown is an American country music artist. Active since 1986, Brown has recorded a total of thirteen studio albums, and has charted more than twenty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts...
  
   (born 1954)
• Jann Browne
  Jann Browne
  Jann Browne is an American country singer. Before her solo career, she was a vocalist with the Western swing group Asleep at the Wheel. She has recorded four studio albums, and has charted three singles on the Hot Country Songs charts. Her highest single is 1990's "Tell Me Why" at...
  
   (born 1954)
• Chad Brownlee
  Chad Brownlee
  Chad Brownlee is a Canadian country music artist and ice hockey defenceman. Brownlee was a draft pick for the Vancouver Canucks in 2003, going in the sixth round #190th overall...
  
   (born 1984)
• The Browns
  The Browns
  The Browns were an American country and folk music vocal trio best known for their 1959 Grammy-nominated hit, "The Three Bells". The group, composed of Jim Ed Brown and his sisters Maxine and Bonnie Brown, had a close, smooth harmony characteristic of the Nashville sound, though their music also...
  
  
• Luke Bryan
  Luke Bryan
  Thomas Luther "Luke" Bryan is an American country singer who debuted in 2007 with the single "All My Friends Say", a Top 5 single on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. His debut album, I'll Stay Me, was released on Capitol Records in 2007. This album also produced chart singles in "We Rode in...
  
   (born 1976)
• Keith Bryant
  Keith Bryant
  Keith Bryant is an American country music artist. In his career, he has released four independent studio albums, including one on Lofton Creek Records. He charted for the first time in 2004 with the single "Riding' with the Legend", which Bryant co-wrote as a tribute to former NASCAR driver Dale...
  
  
• Laura Bryna
  Laura Bryna
  -Track listing:-Singles:-Music videos:-External links:...
  
  
• Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
  Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
  Felice Bryant and Boudleaux Bryant were an American husband-and-wife country music and pop songwriting team best known for songs such as "Rocky Top," "Love Hurts" and numerous Everly Brothers hits, including "All I Have to Do Is Dream" and "Bye Bye Love".-Beginnings:Boudleaux was born Diadorius...
  
  
• Laura Bell Bundy
  Laura Bell Bundy
  Laura Ashley Bell Bundy is an American actress and singer who has performed in a number of Broadway roles, both starring and supporting, as well as in television and film. Her best known Broadway roles are the original Amber Von Tussle in Hairspray and the original Elle Woods in the musical...
  
  
• Jimmy Buffett
  Jimmy Buffett
  James William "Jimmy" Buffett is a singer-songwriter, author, entrepreneur, and film producer. He is best known for his music, which often portrays an "island escapism" lifestyle. Together with his Coral Reefer Band, Buffett's musical hits include "Margaritaville" , and "Come Monday"...
  
   (born 1946)
• Burch Sisters
  Burch Sisters
  Burch Sisters was an American country music trio composed of sisters Cathy, Charlene and Cindy Burch. Their debut single, "Everytime You Go Outside I Hope It Rains," was their only song to reach the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, peaking at #23 in 1988...
  
  
• Ed Burleson
  Ed Burleson
  Ed Burleson is a Texas Country singer/songwriter from Denison, Texas.Ed Burleson is a baby-faced, sixth-generation Texan who works construction by day and crafts traditionally minded honky tonk by night. He has counted among his supporters the late Texas legend Doug Sahm, who served as Burleson's...
  
  
• Smiley Burnette
  Smiley Burnette
  Lester Alvin Burnett , better known as Smiley Burnette, was a popular American country music performer and a comedic actor in Western films and on radio and TV, playing sidekick to Gene Autry and other B-movie cowboys. He was also a prolific singer-songwriter who could play as many as 100 musical...
  
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• Burnin' Daylight
  Burnin' Daylight
  Burnin' Daylight was an American country music band composed of Marc Beeson , Kurt Howell , and Sonny LeMaire . Howell was formerly a member of Southern Pacific, and LeMaire a former member of Exile...
  
  
• Kristian Bush
  Kristian Bush
  Kristian Merrill Bush is an American folk rock and country musician. From 1990 to 2001, Kristian was a member of the folk rock duo Billy Pilgrim along with Andrew Hyra...
  
   (born 1970)
• Hillous Butrum
  Hillous Butrum
  Hillous Buel "Bew" Butrum was an American country music guitar player and a record and video producer best known as a member of Hank Williams Drifting Cowboys....
  
   (1928-2002)
• Sarah Buxton
  Sarah Buxton (Singer)
  Sarah Buxton is an American country music artist, formerly signed to the independent Lyric Street Records...
  
   (born 1980)
• Tracy Byrd (born 1966)

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• Chris Cagle
  Chris Cagle
  Chris Cagle is an American country music artist. Signed with Virgin Records Nashville in 2000, Cagle made his debut on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts with the single "My Love Goes On and On", the first single from his debut album Play It Loud...
  
   (born 1968)
• Glen Campbell
  Glen Campbell
  Glen Travis Campbell is an American country music singer, guitarist, television host and occasional actor. He is best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as for hosting a variety show called The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television.During his 50 years in show...
  
   (born 1936)
• Stacy Dean Campbell
  Stacy Dean Campbell
  Stacy Dean Campbell is an American country singer-songwriter, author and TV host.Campbell's father was a gospel singer, though he was raised by his grandparents. Campbell moved to Nashville after his brother, Spencer, launched a professional career there. He became a songwriter for Tree Music, and...
  
   (born 1967)
• Laura Cantrell
  Laura Cantrell
  Laura Cantrell is a country singer-songwriter and DJ from Nashville, Tennessee. She used to present a weekly country and old-time music radio show on WFMU in New Jersey called The Radio Thrift Shop...
  
   (born 1967 or 1968)
• George Canyon
  George Canyon
  George Canyon is a Canadian country music singer. He was runner up Nashville Star 2 in 2004. He grew up in Fox Brook, Pictou County, Nova Scotia and later lived in Hopewell, Nova Scotia before he moved west. He currently lives in High River, Alberta...
  
   (born 1970)
• Canyon
  Canyon (country music band)
  Canyon was an American country music group composed of Steve Cooper , Johnny Boatright , Jay Brown , Randy Rigney and Keech Rainwater . Between 1988 and 1989, the band released two studio albums on 16th Avenue...
  
  
• Michael Carey
  Michael Carey
  Michael Carey is a Canadian country music singer. Carey's eponymous debut album, produced by Randy Bachman, was released in January 2005.-Studio albums:-Singles:-External links:...
  
   (born 1987)
• Mary Chapin Carpenter
  Mary Chapin Carpenter
  Mary Chapin Carpenter is an American folk and country music artist. Carpenter spent several years singing in Washington, D.C. clubs before signing in the late 1980s with Columbia Records, who marketed her as a country singer...
  
   (born 1958)
• Jason Michael Carroll
  Jason Michael Carroll
  Jason Michael Carroll is an American country music artist. After being discovered at a local talent competition in 2004, Carroll was signed to the Arista Nashville label in 2006, releasing his debut album Waitin' in the Country that year...
  
   (born 1978)
• Jenny Lou Carson
  Jenny Lou Carson
  Jenny Lou Carson, , born Virginia Lucille Overstake, was an American country music singer-songwriter and the first woman to write a No. 1 country music hit...
  
   (1915-1978)
• Carter Family, The
• Anita Carter
  Anita Carter
  Ina Anita Carter , the youngest daughter of Ezra and Mother Maybelle Carter, was a versatile American singer who experimented with several different types of music and played stand-up bass with her sisters Helen Carter and June Carter Cash as The Carter Sisters...
  
   (1933-1999)
• A.P. Carter (1891-1960)
• Carlene Carter
  Carlene Carter
  Carlene Carter is an American country singer and songwriter. She is the daughter of June Carter and her first husband, Carl Smith....
  
   (born 1955)
• Wilf Carter
  Wilf Carter
  Wilf Carter , also known as Montana Slim, was a Canadian country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and yodeller...
  
   (1904-1996)
• Deana Carter
  Deana Carter
  Deana Carter is a country music artist who broke through in 1996 with the release of debut album Did I Shave My Legs for This?, which was certified 5× Multi-Platinum in the United States for sales of over five million...
  
   (born 1966)
• Maybelle Carter
  Maybelle Carter
  "Mother" Maybelle Carter was an American country musician. She is best known as a member of the historic Carter Family act in the 1920s and 1930s and also as a member of Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters.-Biography:...
  
   (1909-1978)
• Sara Carter
  Sara Carter
  Sara Carter was an American Country music musician. Known for her deep and distinctive singing voice, she was the lead singer on most of the recordings of the historic Carter Family act in the 1920s and 1930s....
  
   (1898-1979)
• Carter's Chord
  Carter's Chord
  Carter's Chord is an American country music group composed of sisters Becky Robertson, Emily Fortney and Joanna Robertson, all of whom are singer-songwriters and vocalists...
  
  
• John Carter Cash
  John Carter Cash
  John Carter Cash is an American Country music-singer, author, songwriter and producer. He is the only son of Johnny and June Carter Cash.-Biography:...
  
   (born 1970)
• Johnny Cash
  Johnny Cash
  John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...
  
   (1932-2003)
• June Carter Cash
  June Carter Cash
  Valerie June Carter Cash was an American singer, dancer, songwriter, actress, comedienne and author who was a member of the Carter Family and the second wife of singer Johnny Cash...
  
   (1929-2003)
• Rosanne Cash
  Rosanne Cash
  Rosanne Cash is an American singer-songwriter and author. She is the eldest daughter of the late country music singer Johnny Cash and his first wife, Vivian Liberto Cash Distin....
  
   (born 1955)
• Tommy Cash
  Tommy Cash
  Tommy Cash, , is a singer-songwriter and younger brother of Johnny Cash.-Biography:Cash was born in Dyess, Arkansas, youngest of four sons and three daughters of Ray and Carrie Cash, and eight years after his brother, Johnny Cash. He formed his first band in high school. After high school...
  
   (born 1940)
• Kasey Chambers
  Kasey Chambers
  Kasey Chambers is an Australian country singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of steel guitar player Bill Chambers, and the sister of musician and producer Nash Chambers.-Solo success:...
  
   (born 1976)
• Chance
  Chance (band)
  Chance was an American country music group composed of Jeff Barosh , Mick Barosh , John Buckley , Jon Mulligan and Billy Hafer...
  
  
• Donovan Chapman
  Donovan Chapman
  Donovan Chapman is an American country music artist. he has recorded two studio albums: one on Curb Records, and one on Category 5 Records...
  
   (born 1975)
• Ray Charles
  Ray Charles
  Ray Charles Robinson , known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records...
  
   (1930-2004)
• Kenny Chesney
  Kenny Chesney
  Kenneth "Kenny" Arnold Chesney is an American country music singer and songwriter. Chesney has recorded 15 albums, 14 of which have been certified gold or higher by the RIAA. He has also produced more than 30 Top Ten singles on the U.S...
  
   (born 1968)
• Mark Chesnutt
  Mark Chesnutt
  Mark Nelson Chesnutt is an American country music singer. Chesnutt recorded and released his first album, Doing My Country Thing, in the late-1980s on private independent record label, Axbar Records, with the vinyl album version now a collector's item...
  
   (born 1963)
• Claudia Church
  Claudia Church
  Claudia Church is an American country singer whose hits include "What's the Matter With You Baby" and "Home in My Heart ".-Biography:...
  
  
• Eric Church
  Eric Church
  Kenneth Eric Church is an American country music singer and songwriter. Signed to Capitol Records in 2006, Church released his debut album Sinners Like Me that year...
  
   (born 1977)
• Guy Clark
  Guy Clark
  Guy Clark is an American Texas Country artist. In his career, he has released more than twenty albums, primarily on major labels. He has also written singles for other artists, including Ricky Skaggs, Steve Wariner and Rodney Crowell....
  
   (born 1941)
• Roy Clark
  Roy Clark
  Roy Linwood Clark is an American country music musician and performer. He is best known for hosting Hee Haw, a nationally televised country variety show, from 1969–1992. Clark has been an important and influential figure in country music, both as a performer and helping to popularize the genre...
  
   (born 1933)
• Terri Clark
  Terri Clark
  Terri Lynn Sauson , known professionally as Terri Clark, is a Canadian country music artist who has had success in both Canada and the United States. Signed to Mercury Records in 1995, she released her self-titled debut that year...
  
   (born 1968)
• The Clark Brothers
  The Clark Brothers
  Sons of Sylvia is an American country pop trio composed of three brothers with the surname Clark: Adam , Ashley and Austin . All three, along with their three other brothers Aaron, Andrew, and Alan, originally comprised a sextet called The Clark Family Experience...
  
  
• The Clark Family Experience
  The Clark Family Experience
  -Track listing:#"Going Away" - 3:51#"Because" - 3:45#"It'll Always Be You" - 3:21#"Standin' Still" - 3:23...
  
  
• Philip Claypool
  Philip Claypool
  Philip Claypool is an American country music artist. Between 1995 and 1999, he recorded two studio albums for the Curb Records label , in addition to charting four singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts...
  
  
• Patsy Cline
  Patsy Cline
  Patsy Cline , born Virginia Patterson Hensley in Gore, Virginia, was an American country music singer who enjoyed pop music crossover success during the era of the Nashville sound in the early 1960s...
  
   (1932-1963)
• Hank Cochran
  Hank Cochran
  Garland Perry "Hank" Cochran was an American country music singer and songwriter. Starting during the 1960s, Cochran was a prolific songwriter in the genre, including major hits by Patsy Cline, Ray Price, Eddy Arnold and others...
  
   (born 1935-2010)
• Stephen Cochran
  Stephen Cochran
  Stephen Cochran is an American Country music singer and songwriter. In 2009 Stephen was named as a spokesman for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs Research and Development...
  
   (born 1979)
• Tammy Cochran
  Tammy Cochran
  Tammy Cochran is an American country music artist. Signed to Epic Records Nashville in 2000, she released her self titled debut album that year, followed a year later by Life Happened...
  
   (born 1972)
• David Allan Coe
  David Allan Coe
  David Allan Coe is an American outlaw country music singer who achieved popularity in the 1970s and 1980s. He has written and performed over 280 original songs throughout his career...
  
   (born 1939)
• Kellie Coffey
  Kellie Coffey
  Kellie Coffey is an American country music artist. She made her debut in 2002 with the release of her single "When You Lie Next to Me", a Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts...
  
   (born 1971)
• Mark Collie
  Mark Collie
  George Mark Collie is an American country music artist and occasional actor. He has released eight albums, and has charted 16 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. His highest peaking singles are "Even the Man in the Moon Is Cryin'" at #5, and "Born to Love You" at #6, from 1992 and...
  
   (born 1956)
• Shirley Collie
  Shirley Collie
  Shirley Collie Nelson , born Shirley Angelina Simpson, was an American country music and rockabilly singer, yodeler, guitarist and songwriter...
  
   (born 1931)
• Brian Collins
  Brian Collins (singer)
  Brian Collins is an American country music artist. Between 1973 and 1974, he recorded two albums for Dot Records. In that same time span, he charted three Top 40 singles on the Billboard country charts. His highest-charting single was a #10 cover of Jack Greene's "Statue of a...
  
   (born 1950)
• Jim Collins
  Jim Collins (singer)
  Jim Collins is an American country music singer-songwriter. Between 1985 and 1998, Collins released three studio albums. He also charted seven singles on Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart...
  
   (born 1959)
• Jessi Colter
  Jessi Colter
  Jessi Colter is an American country music artist who is best known for her collaboration with her husband, country singer and songwriter Waylon Jennings and for her 1975 country-pop crossover hit "I'm Not Lisa"....
  
   (born 1947)
• John Conlee
  John Conlee
  John Conlee is an American country music singer. Between 1978 and 2004, Conlee charted a total of thirty-two singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts and recorded eleven studio albums...
  
   (born 1946)
• The Cook Family Singers
  The Cook Family Singers
  The Cook Family Singers were originally formed in 1885, by David J Cook and his wife, Martha. The family hailed from Lucedale, Mississippi. Cook and his wife had six children and on Sunday afternoons after church, they would pass the time by perfecting their singing of harmonies and old gospel blends...
  
  
• David L Cook (born 1968)
• Kristy Lee Cook
  Kristy Lee Cook
  Kristy Lee Cook is an American country singer who was born in Seattle, Washington and was the seventh place finalist on the seventh season of American Idol. In 2005 Cook released her debut album called Devoted. In June 2008, Cook signed to 19 Recordings and Arista Nashville. She released her...
  
   (born 1984)
• Spade Cooley
  Spade Cooley
  Donnell Clyde Cooley , better known as Spade Cooley, was an American Western swing musician, big band leader, actor, and television personality...
  
   (1910-1969)
• Rita Coolidge
  Rita Coolidge
  Rita Coolidge is a multiple Grammy Award-winning American vocalist. During the 1970s and 1980s, she charted hits on Billboard's Pop, Country, Adult Contemporary and Jazz charts.-Career:...
  
   (born 1945)
• Stoney Cooper
  Stoney Cooper
  Dale Troy Cooper , known professionally as Stoney Cooper, was an American country star and member of the Grand Ole Opry. He was a master of the fiddle and the guitar.-Biography:...
  
   (1918-1977)
• Cowboy Copas
  Cowboy Copas
  Lloyd Estel Copas , known by his stage name Cowboy Copas, was an American country music singer popular from the 1940s until his death in the 1963 plane crash that also killed country stars Patsy Cline and Hawkshaw Hawkins. He was a member of the Grand Ole Opry.-Biography:Copas was born in 1913 in...
  
   (1913-1963)
• Corbin/Hanner
  Corbin/Hanner
  Corbin/Hanner is an American country music group founded by Bob Corbin and David Hanner. They began as a five-piece band called the Corbin/Hanner Band in 1979. Corbin and Hanner served as lead vocalists and guitarists, with Al Snyder , Kip Paxton and Dave Freeland completing the lineup...
  
  
• Kevin Costner
  Kevin Costner
  Kevin Michael Costner is an American actor, singer, musician, producer, director, and businessman. He has been nominated for three BAFTA Awards, won two Academy Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. Costner's roles include Lt. John J...
  
   (born 1955)
• Bucky Covington
  Bucky Covington
  William Joel "Bucky" Covington III is an American country music singer. He placed eighth on the 5th season of the Fox Network's talent competition series American Idol. In December 2006, he signed a recording contract with Lyric Street Records...
  
   (born 1977)
• Cowboy Junkies
  Cowboy Junkies
  Cowboy Junkies are a Canadian alternative country/blues/folk rock band. The group was formed in Toronto in 1985 by Margo Timmins , Michael Timmins , Peter Timmins and Alan Anton ....
  
  
• Cowboy Troy
  Cowboy Troy
  Troy Lee Coleman III is an American musician, better known by his stage name Cowboy Troy, who performs country rap. He is a member of the MuzikMafia, an aggregation of country music singer-songwriters whose membership also includes Big & Rich, Gretchen Wilson and James Otto...
  
   (born 1970)
• Billy "Crash" Craddock (born 1939)
• Floyd Cramer
  Floyd Cramer
  Floyd Cramer was an American Hall of Fame pianist who was one of the architects of the "Nashville sound." He popularized the "slip note" piano style where an out-of-tune note slides effortlessly into the correct note...
  
   (1933-1997)
• Crawford/West
  Crawford/West
  Crawford/West was an American country music duo consisting of Rick Crawford and Kenny West . Signed to Warner Bros. Records, they released their first single, "Summertime Girls," in May 1997. The song peaked at #75 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in the United States and #91 on...
  
  
• Melodie Crittenden
  Melodie Crittenden
  Melodie Crittenden is an American country and Christian music artist. She initially recorded a self-titled debut album for Asylum/Elektra Records in 1998, the same year that she charted with her rendition of "Bless the Broken Road" ; she would later record the song a second time as a member of the...
  
   (born 1969)
• Cross Canadian Ragweed
  Cross Canadian Ragweed
  Cross Canadian Ragweed was an American Red Dirt/Texas Country/Country rock band. The name of the band came from the combination of three band members' names, Grady Cross , Cody Canada , and Randy Ragsdale . Jeremy Plato's name was not involved in the band naming...
  
  
• Crossin Dixon
  Crossin Dixon
  Crossin Dixon is an American country music and Southern rock group signed to the independent Stoney Creek Records label. Its members comprise Jason Miller , Rob Hovey , Brandon Hyde , Lane Curtis and Charlie Grantham...
  
  
• Sheryl Crow
  Sheryl Crow
  Sheryl Suzanne Crow is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, musician, and actress. Her music incorporates elements of rock, folk, hip hop, country and pop...
  
   (born 1962)
• Rodney Crowell
  Rodney Crowell
  Rodney Crowell is a Grammy Award-winning musician, known primarily for his work as a singer and songwriter in country music....
  
   (born 1950)
• Bobbie Cryner
  Bobbie Cryner
  Bobbie Cryner is a female country singer-songwriter born in Woodland, California on September 13, 1961. She released her debut album, the bluesy Bobbie Cryner, in 1993 on Epic Records...
  
   (born 1961)
• Dick Curless
  Dick Curless
  Richard William Curless was an American country-music singer, a pioneer of the trucking music genre, commonly known as the "Baron of Country Music." He was easily distinguished because of the patch he usually wore over his right eye.-Biography:Curless was born in Fort Fairfield, Maine, and moved...
  
   (1932-1995)
• Billy Currington
  Billy Currington
  William Matthew "Billy" Currington is an American country music artist. Signed to Mercury Nashville Records in 2003, he has released four studio albums for the label: 2003's Billy Currington, 2005's Doin' Somethin' Right, 2008's Little Bit of Everything, and 2010's Enjoy Yourself...
  
   (born 1973)
• Billy Ray Cyrus
  Billy Ray Cyrus
  William "Billy" Ray Cyrus is an American country music singer, songwriter, actor and philanthropist, who helped make country music a worldwide phenomenon...
  
   (born 1961)

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• Vernon Dalhart
  Vernon Dalhart
  Vernon Dalhart , born Marion Try Slaughter, was a popular American singer and songwriter of the early decades of the 20th century. He is a major influence in the field of country music.-Early life:...
  
   (1883-1948)
• Dale Daniel
  Dale Daniel
  Lisa Dale Daniel is an American country music artist. She has recorded one studio album, Luck of Our Own. Daniel is the daughter of songwriter Naomi Martin, whose credits include the Grammy nominated "Let's Take the Long Way Around the World" by Ronnie Milsap and "My Eyes Can Only See as Far as...
  
  
• Davis Daniel
  Davis Daniel
  Robert Andrykowski is an American country music artist who records under the name Davis Daniel. Between 1991 and 1996, he recorded three studio albums on various divisions of Mercury Records: 1991's Fighting Fire with Fire, 1994's Davis Daniel, and 1995's I Know a Place...
  
   (born 1961)
• Charlie Daniels
  Charlie Daniels
  Charles Edward "Charlie" Daniels is an American musician known for his contributions to country and southern rock music. He is known primarily for his number one country hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", and multiple other songs he has performed and written. Daniels has been active as a singer...
  
   (born 1937)
• Clint Daniels
  Clint Daniels
  Clint Allen Daniels is an American country music artist. Signed to Arista Nashville in 1998, Daniels released his self-titled debut album that year and charted two singles for Daniels on the Hot Country Songs charts. In 2003, Daniels signed to Epic Records, releasing a third single but no album...
  
   (born 1974)
• Kikki Danielsson
  Kikki Danielsson
  Ann-Kristin "Kikki" Danielsson is a Swedish country, dansband and pop singer. Sometimes, she also plays the accordion and she has also written some lyrics. She is also famous for yodeling in some songs. Kikki Danielsson gained her largest popularity in the Nordic region from the late 1970s until...
  
   (born 1952)
• Helen Darling
  Helen Darling (singer)
  Helen Darling is an American country music artist. Darling has released one studio album on Decca Nashville...
  
   (born 1965)
• Skeeter Davis
  Skeeter Davis
  Mary Frances Penick , better known as Skeeter Davis, was an American country music singer best known for crossover pop music songs of the early 1960s. She started out as part of The Davis Sisters as a teenager in the late 1940s, eventually landing on RCA Records. In the late '50s, she became a solo...
  
   (1931-2004)
• Davisson Brothers Band
  Davisson Brothers Band
  Davisson Brothers Band is an American country music group composed of brothers Chris Davisson , and Donnie Davisson , cousin Sammy Davisson , and long time friend Aaron Regester...
  
  
• Jennifer Day
  Jennifer Day
  Jennifer Day Morrison is an American country music singer. Signed to BNA Records in late 1999, she has released one studio album and has charted two singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts...
  
   (born 1979)
• Eddie Dean
  Eddie Dean (singer)
  Eddie Dean was an American western singer and actor whom Roy Rogers and Gene Autry termed the best cowboy singer of all time. Dean was best known for "I Dreamed Of A Hill-Billy Heaven" , which became an even greater hit in 1961 for Tex Ritter....
  
   (1907-1999)
• Jimmy Dean
  Jimmy Dean
  Jimmy Ray Dean was an American country music singer, television host, actor and businessman. Although he may be best known today as the creator of the Jimmy Dean sausage brand, he became a national television personality starting in 1957, rising to fame for his 1961 country crossover hit "Big Bad...
  
   (born 1928-2010)
• Cole Deggs & The Lonesome
  Cole Deggs & The Lonesome
  - Track listing :#"Girl Next Door" – 3:38#"I Got More" – 3:29#"Out of Alabama" – 3:03#"Twelve Ounces Deep" – 4:18...
  
  
• Ilse DeLange
  Ilse DeLange
  Ilse Annoeska de Lange is a Dutch country and pop singer, better known as Ilse DeLange .-Biography:...
  
   (born 1977)
• Martin Delray
  Martin Delray
  Michael Ray Martin is an American country music artist, known professionally as Martin Delray. He worked as a songwriter in the 1980s, with his writing credits including "Old Fashioned Love" by The Kendalls...
  
   (born 1949)
• Iris DeMent
  Iris DeMent
  Iris DeMent is an American singer and songwriter. DeMent's musical style encompasses the genres country and folk music.-Early life:...
  
   (born 1961)
• Kevin Denney
  Kevin Denney
  Kevin Denney is an American country music artist. Signed to Lyric Street Records in 2001, he made his debut on the country music scene with the release of his self-titled album , which produced three chart singles, including "That's Just Jessie", a Top 20 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles &...
  
   (born 1976)
• Wesley Dennis
  Wesley Dennis
  Wesley Dennis is an American country music artist. A native of Alabama, Dennis previously held a job installing car windshields before he took to singing in bars. In 1995, he signed to Mercury Nashville Records, releasing a self-titled debut album, and charting three singles on the Billboard Hot...
  
   (born 1963)
• John Denver
  John Denver
  Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. , known professionally as John Denver, was an American singer/songwriter, activist, and humanitarian. After growing up in numerous locations with his military family, Denver began his music career in folk music groups in the late 1960s. His greatest commercial success...
  
   (1947-1997)
• The Derailers
  The Derailers
  The Derailers are an American country music band based in Austin, Texas. They were founded by Portland, Oregon natives Tony Villanueva and Brian Hofeldt in 1994.-History:...
  
  
• Daisy Dern
  Daisy Dern
  Daisy Dern is an American country music artist. Signed to Mercury Records in 2002, Dern released one single, "Gettin' Back to You", which charted on the Hot Country Songs charts. An album for Mercury was never released on the label, although she later released it independently...
  
   (born ca. 1967}
• Diamond Rio
  Diamond Rio
  Diamond Rio is an American Country music/Christian music band formed in 1984 in Nashville, Tennessee. Since its foundation, the group has comprised the same six members: Gene Johnson , Jimmy Olander , Brian Prout , Marty Roe , Dan Truman , and Dana Williams...
  
  
• Little Jimmy Dickens
  Little Jimmy Dickens
  James Cecil Dickens , better known as Little Jimmy Dickens, is an American country music singer famous for his humorous novelty songs, his small size, 4'11" , and his rhinestone-studded outfits...
  
   (born 1920)
• Tyler Dickerson
  Tyler Dickerson
  Tyler Dickerson is an American country music artist signed to Lyric Street Records. He released his debut single, "Tell Your Sister I'm Single," to radio in early 2010.-Biography:...
  
   (born 1993)
• Joe Diffie
  Joe Diffie
  Joe Logan Diffie is an American country music singer known for his ballads and novelty songs. Between 1990 and 2004, Diffie charted 35 cuts on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, including five number one singles: his debut release "Home", "If the Devil Danced ", "Third Rock from the Sun",...
  
   (born 1958)
• Dixiana
  Dixiana (band)
  Dixiana was an American country music band. Founded in 1986, the band was composed of five members: brothers Mark and Phil Lister , Randall Griffith , Colonel Shuford , and Cindy Murphy . Signed to Epic Records in 1992, they released their self-titled debut album that year...
  
  
• Dixie Chicks
  Dixie Chicks
  The Dixie Chicks are an American country band which has also successfully crossed over into other genres. The band is composed of founding members Martie Erwin Maguire and Emily Erwin Robison, and lead singer Natalie Maines...
  
  
• Doc Walker
  Doc Walker
  Doc Walker is a country music group from Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, Canada. They have won Canadian Country Music Awards and had radio hits with the songs "I Am Ready" and "The Show is Free" from the 2003 album Everyone Aboard. In 2001 they released the album Curve...
  
  
• Deryl Dodd
  Deryl Dodd
  Deryl Dwaine Dodd is an American Texas Country artist. Originally a regular on the Texas club circuit, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, soon finding work as a background vocalist and songwriter...
  
   (born 1964)
• Amber Dotson
  Amber Dotson
  Amber Dotson is an American country music artist. Initially a songwriter for Sony/Tree Publishing, Dotson soon began singing demos as well. She also made an appearance on Travis Tritt's 2004 album My Honky Tonk History as a background vocalist...
  
  
• Ray Downs
  Ray Downs
  Raymond W. Downs is an American author as well as a former country music singer.Ray was most notably known for his appearances on the syndicated Porter Wagoner television show. Downs also played for a couple of years with Country Music legend Marty Robbins opening shows on the road...
  
   (born 1944)
• Drew Davis Band
  Drew Davis Band
  The Drew Davis Band is an American country music group established in 2001 by Drew Davis , Mike Drake , Loren Ellis , Jay Hawks , Mo Levone , and Roger Malinkowski .In 2004, the band competed in and won the Colgate Country Showdown; shortly...
  
  
• Roy Drusky
  Roy Drusky
  Roy Frank Drusky Jr., was an American country music singer popular from the 1960s through the early 1970s. Known for his baritone voice, he was known for incorporating the Nashville sound. His highest-charting single was the No. 1 "Yes Mr. Peters", a duet with Priscilla Mitchell.-Early life and...
  
   (1930-2004)
• Dave Dudley
  Dave Dudley
  Dave Dudley , born David Darwin Pedruska, was an American country music singer best-known for his truck-driving country anthems of the 1960s and 1970s and his semi-slurred baritone. His signature song was "Six Days on the Road," and he is also remembered for "Vietnam Blues," "Truck Drivin'...
  
   (1928-2003)
• Due West
  Due West
  Due West is an American country music group composed of Matt Lopez, Tim Gates and Brad Hull. Due West was founded in Nashville, Tennessee in 2004, and was almost signed to a contract with RCA Records Nashville in 2006, but lost the deal due to the merger of Sony Music and BMG...
  
  
• Whitney Duncan
  Whitney Duncan
  Whitney Duncan is an American country music artist, who was the fifth place finalist on the fifth season of Nashville Star. She has released one studio album and has charted on the U.S...
  
   (born 1986)
• Holly Dunn
  Holly Dunn
  Holly Dunn is a country music artist who first found fame with her 1986 Top-10 hit "Daddy's Hands" from her self-titled début album. Dunn has charted more than a dozen country singles, two of which reaching the #1 spot.Dunn is the daughter of a minister father...
  
   (born 1957)

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• Eagles
• Steve Earle
  Steve Earle
  Stephen Fain "Steve" Earle is an American singer-songwriter known for his rock and Texas Country as well as his political views. He is also a producer, author, a political activist, and an actor, and has written and directed a play....
  
   (born 1955)
• Mundo Earwood
  Mundo Earwood
  Raymond "Mundo" Earwood is an American country music singer-songwriter. Earwood's eponymous debut album was released by Excelsior Records in 1981...
  
   (born 1952)
• Edens Edge
  Edens Edge
  Edens Edge is an American country music band composed of Hannah Blaylock , Dean Berner and Cherrill Green . The band is signed to Big Machine Records, on which Edens Edge released its debut single "Amen" in April 2011.-History:All three members of Edens Edge are natives of Arkansas...
  
  
• Meredith Edwards
  Meredith Edwards (country music singer)
  Meredith Edwards is an American singer. She recorded an album, Reach, for Mercury Records Nashville in 2001...
  
   (born 1984)
• Katrina Elam
  Katrina Elam
  Katrina Ruth Elam is an American country music singer and songwriter. Signed to Universal South Records in 2004, she released her self-titled debut album that year, charting in the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks with the #29 "No End in Sight" and the #59 "I Want a Cowboy"...
  
   (born 1983)
• Brett Eldredge
  Brett Eldredge
  Brett Eldredge is an American country music singer signed to Atlantic Records Nashville. He is the cousin of Terry Eldredge of The Grascals.-Early life:He was born in 1986 in Paris, Illinois...
  
  
• Eleven Hundred Springs
  Eleven Hundred Springs
  Eleven Hundred Springs is a Texas Country rock band from Texas. Their influences include Willie Nelson, Buck Owens and Doug Sahm. They are known as one of the few remaining outlaw country bands....
  
  
• Ramblin' Jack Elliott
  Ramblin' Jack Elliott
  Ramblin' Jack Elliott is an American folk singer and performer.-Life and career:Elliot Charles Adnopoz was born in Brooklyn, New York to Jewish parents in 1931. Elliott grew up inspired by the rodeos at Madison Square Garden, and wanted to be a cowboy...
  
   (born 1931)
• Scotty Emerick
  Scotty Emerick
  Walter Scott "Scotty" Emerick is an American country music artist, known primarily for his work with Toby Keith. In addition to penning several of Keith's singles, Emerick has also written for Sawyer Brown, George Strait and several other artists...
  
   (born 1973)
• Emerson Drive
  Emerson Drive
  Emerson Drive is a country music band founded in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada in 1995. The band is Brad Mates , Danick Dupelle , Mike Melancon , Dale Wallace , and David Pichette .Early on, the band found minor success in Canada, releasing two albums under the name of 12 Gauge, the first Open...
  
  
• Dale Evans
  Dale Evans
  Dale Evans, was an American writer, movie star, and singer-songwriter. She was the third wife of singing cowboy Roy Rogers.-Early life:...
  
   (1912-2001)
• Sara Evans
  Sara Evans
  Sara Lynn Evans is an American country singer and songwriter.Evans was one of the few traditional-styled singers to emerge from Nashville in the late 1990s, according to Allmusic. Since emerging in the late 1990s, Evans has made five No. 1 Country hits and Gold and Platinum-certified albums by...
  
   (born 1971)
• Jace Everett
  Jace Everett
  Jace Everett is an American recording artist. Signed to Epic Records in 2005, he released his debut single "That's the Kind of Love I'm In" in 2005, which peaked at No. 51 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, and was the first single from his self-titled debut album. He also co-wrote Josh...
  
   (born 1972)
• Leon Everette
  Leon Everette
  Leon Everette is an American country music artist. While in the Navy during the Vietnam War, Everette won a singing contest and decided to pursue a career in country music....
  
   (born 1948)
• Evangeline
  Evangeline (band)
  Evangeline was an American country music band initially composed of Kathleen Stieffel , Sharon Leger , Beth McKee , Rhonda Lohmeyer , Nancy Buchan , and Dudley Fruge...
  
  
• Everly Brothers
• Exile
  Exile (American band)
  Exile, originally known as The Exiles, is an American band founded in Richmond, Kentucky by J.P. Pennington. They started by playing local clubs which led to touring with Dick Clark’s Caravan of Stars opening shows and providing backup for major rock artists of the period.Their name was shortened...
  
  

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• Barbara Fairchild
  Barbara Fairchild
  Barbara Fairchild is an American Country Music/Gospel Music Singer, who is best known for her 1973 Country chart-topper "The Teddy Bear Song". After the success of the song, she continued to have success on the Country charts....
  
   (born 1950)
• Shelly Fairchild
  Shelly Fairchild
  Shelly Fairchild is an American music recording artist. Signed to Columbia Records in 2004, she released her debut album Ride in early 2005...
  
   (born 1977)
• Donna Fargo
  Donna Fargo
  Donna Fargo is an American country music singer-songwriter, who is best-known for a series of Top 10 country hits in the 1970s...
  
   (born 1945)
• Jay Farrar
  Jay Farrar
  Jay Farrar is an American songwriter and musician currently based in St. Louis, Missouri. A veteran of two critically acclaimed music groups, Uncle Tupelo and Son Volt, he began his solo music career in 2001...
  
   (born 1966)
• Fast Ryde
  Fast Ryde
  Fast Ryde is an American country music duo composed of singer-songwriters James Harrison and Jody Stevens, both of whom sing and play guitar. The duo was signed to Republic Records Nashville and has released three singles: "That Thang," "Make It Rain," and "Top Down," That Thang reached #38 on the...
  
  
• Freddy Fender
  Freddy Fender
  Freddy Fender , born Baldemar Garza Huerta in San Benito, Texas, United States, was a Mexican-American Tejano, country and rock and roll musician, known for his work as a solo artist and in the groups Los Super Seven and the Texas Tornados...
  
   (1935-2007)
• Maury Finney
  Maury Finney
  Maury Finney is an American country music saxophonist. Between 1976 and 1980, he recorded for the Soundwaves record label. Finney charted twelve times on the Billboard country singles charts...
  
  
• Flatt & Scruggs
• Flying Burrito Brothers
• Flynnville Train
  Flynnville Train
  Flynnville Train is an American country rock band. Their self-titled debut album was released on September 11, 2007, and it produced two singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs charts...
  
  
• Red Foley
  Red Foley
  Clyde Julian Foley , better known as Red Foley, was an American singer, musician, and radio and TV personality who made a major contribution to the growth of country music after World War II....
  
   (1910-1968)
• Tennessee Ernie Ford
  Tennessee Ernie Ford
  Ernest Jennings Ford , better known as Tennessee Ernie Ford, was an American recording artist and television host who enjoyed success in the country and Western, pop, and gospel musical genres...
  
   (1919-1991)
• The Forester Sisters
  The Forester Sisters
  The Forester Sisters are an American country music vocal group consisting of sisters Kathy, June, Kim and Christy Forester. The quartet had commercial success in the 1980s, charting fifteen Top Tens on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, including the Number Ones "I Fell in Love Again Last...
  
  
• Radney Foster
  Radney Foster
  Radney Foster is an American Texas Country artist. Initially a songwriter in Nashville, Tennessee, Foster made his debut in 1986 alongside Bill Lloyd in the duo Foster & Lloyd...
  
   (born 1959)
• Foster & Lloyd
  Foster & Lloyd
  Foster & Lloyd is an American country music duo consisting of singer-songwriters Radney Foster and Bill Lloyd . Founded in 1986, the duo recorded three albums for RCA Records, in addition to charting nine singles on the Billboard country charts. The highest-peaking of these was their debut single...
  
  
• Kevin Fowler
  Kevin Fowler
  Kevin Fowler is an American Texas Country artist. He has released five studio albums, and has charted three singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including the top 40 hit "Pound Sign "...
  
  
• Cleve Francis
  Cleve Francis
  Cleveland Francis is an American country music singer, and one of relatively few African Americans in that genre. Before beginning his career, he was a cardiologist; he switched his focus to country music in the late 1980s, signing first to Playback Records and later to Liberty Records...
  
   (born 1945)
• Glenn Frey
  Glenn Frey
  Glenn Lewis Frey is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and actor, best known as a founding member of the Eagles. Frey formed the Eagles after he met drummer Don Henley in 1970 and the two eventually joined Linda Ronstadt's backup band for her summer tour. The Eagles formed in 1971 and...
  
   (born 1948)
• Kinky Friedman
  Kinky Friedman
  Richard S. "Kinky" Friedman is an American Texas Country singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician and former columnist for Texas Monthly who styles himself in the mold of popular American satirists Will Rogers and Mark Twain. He was one of two independent candidates in the 2006 election...
  
   (born 1944)
• David Frizzell
  David Frizzell
  David Frizzell is an American country music singer. He is the younger brother of country music legend Lefty Frizzell. His career first started in the late 1950s, but his biggest success came in the '80s, 30 years into his career....
  
   (born 1941)
• Lefty Frizzell
  Lefty Frizzell
  Lefty Frizzell , born William Orville Frizzell, was an American country music singer and songwriter of the 1950s, and a proponent of honky tonk music. His relaxed style of singing was an influence on later stars Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, George Jones and John Fogerty...
  
   (1928-1975)

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• Larry Gatlin
  Larry Gatlin
  Larry Wayne Gatlin is an American country music singer/songwriter. He is perhaps best known for teaming up with his brothers Steve and Rudy in the late 1970s, becoming one of country music's most successful acts of the 1970s and 1980s. Gatlin has had a total of 33 Top 40 singles...
  
   (born 1948)
• Keith Gattis
  Keith Gattis
  Keith Gattis is an American country music artist. Gattis has released two studio albums. He also charted one single on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart: "Little Drops of My Heart", which peaked at #53 in 1996...
  
   (born 1971)
• Crystal Gayle
  Crystal Gayle
  Crystal Gayle is an American country music singer best known for her 1977 country-pop hit, "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue". An award-winning singer, she accumulated 18 number one country hits during the 1970s and 1980s...
  
   (born 1951)
• Bobbie Gentry
  Bobbie Gentry
  Roberta Lee Streeter , professionally known as Bobbie Gentry, is a former American singer-songwriter notable as one of the first female country artists to compose and produce her own material...
  
   (born 1944)
• Don Gibson
  Don Gibson
  Donald Eugene "Don" Gibson was an American songwriter and country musician. A Country Music Hall of Fame inductee, Gibson penned such country standards as "Sweet Dreams" and "I Can't Stop Loving You", and enjoyed a string of country hits from 1957 into the early 1970s.-Biography:Don Gibson was...
  
   (1928-2003)
• Gibson/Miller Band
  Gibson/Miller Band
  The Gibson/Miller Band was an American country music band founded in 1990 by Dave Gibson and Bill "Blue" Miller, the latter of whom was a former guest musician in rock musician Bob Seger's Silver Bullet Band...
  
  
• Vince Gill
  Vince Gill
  Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill is an American neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a...
  
   (born 1957)
• Mickey Gilley
  Mickey Gilley
  Mickey Leroy Gilley is an American country music singer and musician. Although he started out singing straight-up country and western material in the 1970s, he moved towards a more pop-friendly sound in the 1980s, bringing him further success on not just the country charts, but the pop charts as...
  
   (born 1936)
• Jimmie Dale Gilmore
  Jimmie Dale Gilmore
  Jimmie Dale Gilmore is a country singer, songwriter, actor, recording artist and producer, currently living in Austin, Texas.-Biography:...
  
   (born 1945)
• Girls Next Door
  Girls Next Door (band)
  Girls Next Door is an American country music group formed in Nashville, Tennessee in 1982 and disbanded in 1991. The group consisted of Doris King, Cindy Nixon, Diane Williams, and Tammy Stephens. They were previously known as Belle and Wildflower. Girls Next Door recorded two albums for MTM...
  
  
• Jim Glaser
  Jim Glaser
  Jim Glaser is an American country music artist. The brother of country singers Chuck and Tompall Glaser, he has performed as both a solo artist and alongside his two brothers in the group Tompall and the Glaser Brothers...
  
   (born 1937)
• Tompall Glaser
  Tompall Glaser
  Tompall Glaser is an American country music artist. Active since the 1950s, he has recorded both as a solo artist and with his brothers Chuck and Jim in the trio Tompall & the Glaser Brothers...
  
   (born 1933)
• Gloriana
  Gloriana (band)
  Gloriana is an American country music group founded in 2008. It is composed of brothers Tom Gossin and Mike Gossin , as well as Rachel Reinert and, until July 2011, Cheyenne Kimball . Before the band's foundation, Kimball was the 2002 winner of the competition America's Most Talented Kid and a...
  
  
• Danny Gokey
  Danny Gokey
  Daniel Jay "Danny" Gokey is an American country music singer and church music director from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was the third place finalist on the eighth season of American Idol...
  
   (born 1980)
• Vern Gosdin
  Vern Gosdin
  Vern Gosdin was an American country music singer. He idolized The Louvin Brothers and The Blue Sky Boys as a young man and sang in a gospel quartet called The Gosdin Brothers. An inheritor of the soulful honky tonk style of Lefty Frizzell and Merle Haggard, Gosdin was nicknamed "The Voice" by his...
  
   (born 1934)
• Tammy Graham
  Tammy Graham
  -Track listing:#"I Stopped Looking" – 3:07#"Tell Me Again" – 3:23#"When the Blues and My Baby Collide" – 3:17#"More About Love" – 3:28...
  
   (born 1968)
• Billy Grammer
  Billy Grammer
  Billy Wayne Grammer was an American country music singer and noted guitar player. He was known for the million-selling "Gotta Travel On", which made it onto both the country and pop music charts in 1959.-Biography:...
  
   (born 1925)
• Claude Gray
  Claude Gray
  Claude Gray is an American country music singer-songwriter and guitar picker best known for his 1960 hit "Family Bible," which has been covered by many different artists.-Early life:...
  
   (born 1932)
• Pat Green
  Pat Green
  Patrick Craven "Pat" Green is an American Texas Country artist. Active since 1995, he has recorded a total of ten studio albums, including several independent works, three for Republic Records and two for BNA...
  
   (born 1972)
• Jack Greene
  Jack Greene
  Jack Greene is an American country musician nicknamed the "Jolly Green Giant" and well known for his 1966 hit "There Goes My Everything."-Early career:...
  
   (born 1930)
• Lee Greenwood
  Lee Greenwood
  Melvin Lee Greenwood is an American country music artist. Active since the early 1980s, he has released more than twenty major-label albums and has charted more than 35 singles on the Billboard country music charts....
  
   (born 1942)
• Ricky Lynn Gregg
  Ricky Lynn Gregg
  Ricky Lynn Gregg is a country music artist of Native American descent. Active between the years of 1993 and 2001, he has recorded three studio albums: two on Liberty Records and one on Row Music Group...
  
   (born 1961)
• Adam Gregory
  Adam Gregory
  Adam Gregory is a country music singer and actor. Active since 2000, he has recorded three studio albums, including 2000's The Way I'm Made and 2002's Workin' On It, both on Epic Records, as well as a self-titled album in 2006 on Mensa Records...
  
   (born 1985)
• Clinton Gregory
  Clinton Gregory
  Clinton Gregory is an American country and bluegrass singer, songwriter, and fiddler. He has recorded seven studio albums, primarily on independent labels, and has charted eleven singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts...
  
   (born 1966)
• Terry Gregory
  Terry Gregory
  Terry Gregory is an American country music singer-songwriter. Gregory's debut album, Just Like Me, was released in 1981 by Handshake Records. Its first single, the title track, reached the Top 20 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart.-Albums:-Singles:-External links:*[ Terry Gregory] at...
  
   (born 1956)
• Ray Griff
  Ray Griff
  Ray Griff is a Canadian country music singer and songwriter from Vancouver, British Columbia. Griff began songwriting in the early 1960s and had early cuts by Johnny Horton, Jim Reeves, and others. Griff moved to Nashville in 1964 to pursue his music career full-time...
  
   (born 1940)
• Nanci Griffith
  Nanci Griffith
  Nanci Griffith, is an American singer, guitarist and songwriter from Austin, Texas.-Biography:...
  
   (born 1953)
• Andy Griggs
  Andy Griggs
  Andrew Tyler "Andy" Griggs is an American country music artist. He has released three albums for RCA Records Nashville and a fourth for Montage Music Group...
  
   (born 1973)
• The GrooveGrass Boyz
  The GrooveGrass Boyz
  The GrooveGrass Boyz was an American musical group that played a mix of bluegrass, funk, and freestyle music. The group was founded as a side project by record producer and session musician Scott Rouse in 1987, after he began experimenting with dance mixes of bluegrass and country songs, eventually...
  
  
• Bonnie Guitar
  Bonnie Guitar
  Bonnie Guitar is an American Country-Pop Singer. She is best remembered for her 1957 Country-Pop crossover hit "Dark Moon"...
  
   (born 1923)
• Woody Guthrie
  Woody Guthrie
  Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his...
  
   (1912-1967)

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• Merle Haggard
  Merle Haggard
  Merle Ronald Haggard is an American country music singer, guitarist, fiddler, instrumentalist, and songwriter. Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band The Strangers helped create the Bakersfield sound, which is characterized by the unique twang of Fender Telecaster guitars, vocal harmonies,...
  
   (born 1937)
• Noel Haggard
  Noel Haggard
  Noel Lee Haggard is an American country music artist.Haggard is the son of country music legend Merle Haggard. He was signed to a recording deal with Atlantic Records and released his debut album, One Lifetime, in 1997...
  
   (born 1963)
• Halfway to Hazard
  Halfway to Hazard
  Halfway to Hazard is an American country music duo composed of singer-songwriters David Tolliver and Chad Warrix. Though Tolliver and Warrix grew up in different towns in southeastern Kentucky, their band's origins are in Hazard, Kentucky, which was halfway between their hometowns.Their debut...
  
  
• Tom T. Hall
  Tom T. Hall
  Thomas "Tom T." Hall is an American country music singer-songwriter. He has written 11 #1 hit songs, with 26 more that reached the Top 10, including the pop crossover hit "I Love", which reached #12 on the Billboard Hot 100...
  
   (born 1936)
• George Hamilton IV
  George Hamilton IV
  George Hege Hamilton IV is an American country musician. He began performing in the late 1950s as a teen idol, later switching to country music in the early 1960s.-Biography:Hamilton was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina...
  
   (born 1937)
• Butch Hancock
  Butch Hancock
  Butch Hancock is a country/folk music recording artist and song writer. He was born July 12, 1945 in Lubbock, Texas. Hancock is a member of The Flatlanders along with Joe Ely and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, but he has principally performed a solo career....
  
   (born 1948)
• Hank Flamingo
  Hank Flamingo
  Hank Flamingo was an American country music band founded in the late 1980s. Its membership comprised Trent Summar , Philip Wallace , Eddie Grigg , Ben Northern , Stuart E. Stuart , and Roy Watts . The band recorded one major-label studio album in 1994, before disbanding not long afterward...
  
  
• Hanna-McEuen
  Hanna-McEuen
  -Track listing:#"Fool Around" - 3:22#"Blue Sunrise" - 3:34#"Read Between the Lies" - 3:30#"Something Like a Broken Heart" - 3:52...
  
  
• Michael Harding
  Michael Harding
  Michael Harding is an Irish short-story writer, novelist, and playwright, born in County Cavan. He lives in Westmeath. He has published three novels Priest and The Trouble With Sarah Gullion' and'Bird in the Snow' 2008 He became a member of Aosdana, the National Academy for Creative Artists, in...
  
   (born 1959)
• Keith Harling
  Keith Harling
  Keith Harling is an American country music artist. He made his debut in 1998 with the album Write It in Stone, issued on the MCA Nashville label. It produced four singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts...
  
   (born 1963)
• Joni Harms
  Joni Harms
  Joni Harms is an American country music singer-songwriter. Between 1990 and 2004, Harms released four studio albums. She also charted two singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart...
  
   (born 1959)
• Jessica Harp
  Jessica Harp
  Jessica Leigh Harp is an American songwriter and former country artist from Kansas City, Missouri. Between 2005 and 2007, Harp and Michelle Branch recorded and performed as The Wreckers, a duo that topped the country charts in 2006 with the Grammy-nominated "Leave the Pieces." After The Wreckers...
  
  
• Emmylou Harris
  Emmylou Harris
  Emmylou Harris is an American singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other artists including...
  
   (born 1947)
• J. Michael Harter
  J. Michael Harter
  James "J." Michael Harter is an American country music artist. Signed to the independent Broken Bow Records in 2002, Harter released his debut album Unexpected Change that year. It produced one single on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts in "Hard Call to Make", which peaked at #45...
  
   (born 1979)
• The Harters
  The Harters
  The Harters is a country music trio based in Arizona, United States. It is composed of lead singer Leslie Harter and her brothers, Michael and Scott...
  
  
• Kerry Harvick
  Kerry Harvick
  Kerry Harvick is an American country music artist. At age 19, she performed on a local radio show, where she was discovered by Don Light, who signed her to a publishing contract with Cal IV Entertainment. Her first cut as a songwriter was "'Til Nothing Comes Between Us", a Top 20 hit for John...
  
   (born 1974)
• Hawkshaw Hawkins
  Hawkshaw Hawkins
  Harold Franklin Hawkins , better known as Hawkshaw Hawkins, was an American country music singer popular from the 1950s into the early 60s known for his rich, smooth vocals and music drawn from blues, boogie and honky tonk...
  
   (1921-1963)
• Wade Hayes
  Wade Hayes
  Tony Wade Hayes is an American country music artist. Signed to Columbia Records in 1994, he made his debut that year with his gold-certified album Old Enough to Know Better...
  
   (born 1969)
• Walker Hayes
  Walker Hayes
  -Early life:Hayes was born on December 27, 1979 in Mobile, Alabama. His father, Charles Hayes is a realtor.-Musical career:Hayes and his wife moved to Nashville in 2005, hoping to get in the country music business. He landed a job writing songs for a Nashville publishing company and then signed a...
  
  
• Susan Haynes
  Susan Haynes
  Susan Haynes is an American country music artist. Signed to Epic Records Nashvillein 2005, she released two singles for the label, including "Drinkin' in My Sunday Dress", which peaked at #51 on the country singles charts late that year. A self-titled album was released only to digital...
  
  
• Lee Hazlewood
  Lee Hazlewood
  Lee Hazlewood , born Barton Lee Hazlewood was an American country and pop singer, songwriter, and record producer, most widely known for his work with guitarist Duane Eddy during the late 1950s and singer Nancy Sinatra in the 1960s.Hazlewood had a distinctive baritone voice that added an ominous...
  
   (1929-2007)
• Heartland
  Heartland (band)
  Heartland is an American country music band from Huntsville, Alabama. It is composed of Jason Albert , Craig Anderson , Todd Anderson , Chuck Crawford , Mike Myerson , and Keith West...
  
  
• Eric Heatherly
  Eric Heatherly
  Eric Heatherly is an American country music artist. In 2000, he debuted with a cover of The Statler Brothers' "Flowers on the Wall", the first of three singles from his debut album Swimming in Champagne, which was issued in 2000 on Mercury Nashville Records...
  
   (born 1970)
• Roy Heinrich
  Roy Heinrich
  Roy Heinrich, born Elroy Paul Heinrich, Jr., July 31, 1953, is a Country music singer and songwriter born in Houston, Texas. Heinrich began singing Country music in Los Angeles, CA in 1989. After moving to Austin, Texas in the fall of 1992, Heinrich has established himself as Roots/Honky Tonk...
  
   (born 1953)
• Don Henley
  Don Henley
  Donald Hugh "Don" Henley is an American singer, songwriter and drummer, best known as a founding member of the Eagles before launching a successful solo career. Henley was the drummer and lead vocalist for the Eagles from 1971–1980, when the band broke up...
  
   (born 1947)
• Ty Herndon
  Ty Herndon
  Boyd Tyrone "Ty" Herndon is an American country music and Christian singer. Signed to Epic Records in 1995, Herndon made his debut that year with the Number One single "What Mattered Most", followed by the release of his first album, also entitled What Mattered Most...
  
   (born 1962)
• Lisa Hewitt
  Lisa Hewitt
  Lisa Hewitt is a Canadian country music singer. Hewitt released her self-titled debut album on the independent Socan Records in 1999. Her second album, The Road I Chose, was released in 2004 by Royalty Records. Its first single, "One of Those Goodbyes," reached the Top 25 on the Radio & Records...
  
  
• Hey Romeo
  Hey Romeo
  Hey Romeo is a Canadian country music group from Edmonton, Alberta composed of Stacie Roper , Darren Gusnowsky and Rob Shapiro . Their 2007 single "Second Hand News," a cover of the 1977 Fleetwood Mac song, reached the Top 50 on the Radio & Records Canadian country singles chart...
  
  
• High Valley
  High Valley
  High Valley is a Canadian country music group from Blumenort, Alberta which is located close to the town of La Crete. The band is composed of brothers Brad, Bryan and Curtis Rempel...
  
  
• The Highwaymen
  The Highwaymen (country supergroup)
  The Highwaymen were an American supergroup comprising four country music artists well known for, among other things, their involvement and pioneering influence on the outlaw country subgenre: Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson...
  
  
• Faith Hill
  Faith Hill
  Faith Hill is an American country singer. She is known both for her commercial success and her marriage to fellow country star Tim McGraw. Hill has sold more than 40 million records worldwide and accumulated eight number-one singles and three number-one albums on the U.S...
  
   (born 1967)
• Goldie Hill
  Goldie Hill
  Goldie Hill , born Argolda Voncile Hill, was an American country music singer. She was one of the first women in country music, and became one of the first women to reach the top of the country music charts with her No. 1 1953 hit, "I Let the Stars Get In My Eyes"...
  
   (1933-2005)
• Becky Hobbs
  Becky Hobbs
  Becky Hobbs is an American country music singer, songwriter and pianist. She first attracted critical attention from rock journalist Stann Findelle, who also wrote the liner notes on her debut MCA album, "Becky Hobbs." She has recorded seven studio albums, and has charted multiple singles on the...
  
   (born 1950)
• JT Hodges
  JT Hodges
  JT Hodges is an American country music singer. In 2011, he signed to Show Dog-Universal Music and released his debut single "Hunt You Down", which has charted on Hot Country Songs.-Early life:...
  
  
• Greg Holland
  Greg Holland
  Greg Holland is an American country musician. Holland grew up in Douglas, Georgia, where he performed as a youngster in local play productions and on television. He recorded a demo before reaching his teens and opened in concert for Ronnie Milsap when he was 12 years old...
  
   (born 1967)
• Buddy Holly
  Buddy Holly
  Charles Hardin Holley , known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll...
  
   (1936-1959)
• Monty Holmes
  Monty Holmes
  Monty Holmes is an American country music singer-songwriter. Holmes signed to Bang II Records and released his debut album, All I Ever Wanted, in 1998. His highest charting single, "Why'd You Start Lookin' So Good," peaked at number 43 in 1998...
  
  
• Steve Holy
  Steve Holy
  Steve Holy is an American country music artist. Signed to Curb Records since 1999, he has released three studio albums: 2000's Blue Moon 2006's Brand New Girlfriend and 2011's Love Don't Run...
  
   (born 1972)
• Hometown News
  Hometown News
  Hometown News is an American country music duo composed of singer-songwriters Ron Kingery and Scott Whitehead. Both musicians alternate as lead and background vocalists, in addition to playing guitar, while Kingery also plays the mandolin. Hometown News has recorded two independently-released...
  
  
• Mallary Hope
  Mallary Hope
  Mallary Hope is an American country music singer signed to MCA Nashville. She released her debut single, "Love Lives On", in July 2009, followed by an EP of the same name on August 4, 2009...
  
  
• Taylor Horn
  Taylor Horn
  Taylor Ashley Horn is an American singer-songwriter and occasional actress from Kentwood, Louisiana. She now goes by the stage name of Princess Bambi Monroe....
  
   (born 1992)
• Johnny Horton
  Johnny Horton
  John Gale "Johnny" Horton was an American country music and rockabilly singer most famous for his semi-folk, so-called "saga songs" which began the "historical ballad" craze of the late 1950s and early 1960s...
  
   (1925-1960)
• Steven Wayne Horton
  Steven Wayne Horton
  Steven Wayne Horton was an American country music singer. Horton's eponymous debut album was released by Capitol Nashville in 1989. Its first single, "Roll Over", was his only song to enter the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, peaking at #68 in 1989...
  
  
• Rita Hosking
  Rita Hosking
  Rita Hosking is an American composer and musician based in Davis, California. She plays Americana and bluegrass styles of music with both standards and original songs. Since the release of Are You Ready?, she has been performing around the country at concerts, festivals, and other...
  
   (born 1969)
• Julianne Hough
  Julianne Hough
  Julianne Alexandra Hough is an American professional ballroom dancer, country music singer and actress. She is most widely known for being a two-time champion of ABC's Dancing with the Stars. She earned a Creative Arts Primetime Emmy nomination in 2007 for choreography...
  
   (born 1988)
• Kal Hourd
  Kal Hourd
  Kal Hourd is a Canadian country music singer. Hourd's debut album, Haven't Even Met Yet, was released in August 2009 by E1 Entertainment.-Albums:-Singles:-External links:* at CMT...
  
   (born 1975)
• James House
  James House (singer)
  James Andrew House is an American country music artist. Originally a member of a group called the House Band, James began his country music career in 1990 on MCA Records, recording two albums for that label. He later penned singles for Diamond Rio and Dwight Yoakam, before finding another record...
  
  
• Randy Houser
  Randy Houser
  Shawn Randolph "Randy" Houser is an American country music artist. Signed to the Universal South Records label in 2008, he charted the single "Anything Goes" that year...
  
   (born 1975)
• Jan Howard
  Jan Howard
  Lula Grace Johnson , known professionally as Jan Howard, is an American country music singer and Grand Ole Opry star. She attained moderate success as a country female vocalist during the 1960s and early 1970s...
  
   (born 1930)
• Rebecca Lynn Howard
  Rebecca Lynn Howard
  Rebecca Lynn Howard is an American country music artist. She has charted seven singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, and has released three studio albums...
  
   (born 1979)
• Jedd Hughes
  Jedd Hughes
  Jedd Hughes is a country musician born in Australia. Hughes grew up in Quorn, where he grew up listening to his father's country records. He won a local country music contest at the age of eight and began playing guitar from age nine, taking lessons from his father...
  
   (born 1982)
• Marcus Hummon
  Marcus Hummon
  Marcus Spencer Hummon is an American country music artist. After several years of playing in various bands, he eventually found his way to Nashville, Tennessee, where he was signed to a songwriting contract, and subsequently a record deal with Columbia Records, which released his debut album All...
  
   (born 1955)
• Jesse Hunter
  Jesse Hunter
  Jesse Hunter is an American country music artist.Hunter signed to BNA Records in 1994, the same year that he released his Barry Beckett-produced debut album A Man Like Me...
  
   (born 1959)
• Tommy Hunter
  Tommy Hunter
  Thomas James "Tommy" Hunter, CM, O.Ont is a Canadian country music performer, known as "Canada's Country Gentleman".-Career:...
  
   (born 1937)
• Ferlin Husky
  Ferlin Husky
  Ferlin Eugene Husky was an early American country music singer who was equally adept at the genres of traditional honky honk, ballads, spoken recitations, and rockabilly pop tunes...
  
   (1925-2011)

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• Jack Ingram
  Jack Ingram
  Jack Owen Ingram is an American Texas Country artist signed to Big Machine Records, an independent record label. He has released eight studio albums, one extended play, six live albums and eighteen singles. Although active since 1992, Ingram did not reach the U.S. country Top 40 until the late...
  
   (born 1970)
• Julienne Irwin
  Julienne Irwin
  Julienne Irwin is an American singer from Bel Air, Maryland. Irwin was a finalist on the second season of America's Got Talent.-Biography:...
  
   (born 1993)
• Sonya Isaacs
  Sonya Isaacs
  Sonya Melissa Isaacs is an American country and Christian music singer. Isaacs grew up near Morrow, Ohio, and graduated from Little Miami High School in 1992....
  
   (born 1974)
• Kira Isabella
  Kira Isabella
  Kira Isabella is a Canadian country music artist. Isabella was signed to Sony Music Canada in 2009. Her first single, "Love Me Like That," was released in 2011 and charted on the Canadian Hot 100.-Singles:*ACurrent single....
  
  
• Burl Ives
  Burl Ives
  Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives was an American actor, writer and folk music singer. As an actor, Ives's work included comedies, dramas, and voice work in theater, television, and motion pictures. Music critic John Rockwell said, "Ives's voice .....
  
   (1909-1995)

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• Alan Jackson
  Alan Jackson
  Alan Eugene Jackson is an American country music singer, known for blending traditional honky tonk and mainstream country sounds and penning many of his own hits. He has recorded 13 studio albums, 3 Greatest Hits albums, 2 Holiday albums, 1 Gospel album and several compilations, all on the Arista...
  
   (born 1958)
• Stonewall Jackson
  Stonewall Jackson (musician)
  Stonewall Jackson is an American country singer and musician who achieved his greatest fame during country's "golden" honky tonk era in the 1950s and early 1960s.-Early years:...
  
   (born 1932)
• Wanda Jackson
  Wanda Jackson
  Wanda Lavonne Jackson is an American singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist who had success in the mid-1950s and 60s as one of the first popular female rockabilly singers and a pioneering rock and roll artist...
  
   (born 1937)
• Brett James
  Brett James
  Brett James Cornelius is an American singer, songwriter and record producer. Signed to Career Records as a solo artist in 1995, James charted three singles and released a self-titled debut album that year...
  
   (born 1968)
• Sonny James
  Sonny James
  James Loden , known professionally as Sonny James, is an American country music singer and songwriter best known for his 1957 hit, "Young Love". Dubbed the Southern Gentleman, James had 72 country and pop chart hits from 1953 to 1983, including a five-year streak of 16 straight among his 23 No. 1...
  
   (born 1929)
• Joanna Janét
  Joanna Janét
  Joanna Janét is an American country music singer. Janét was signed to DreamWorks Nashville and recorded an album for the label, Destination Love, that was scheduled to be released in August 2002. The first single from the album, "Since I've Seen You Last," peaked at number 55 on the Billboard Hot...
  
  
• Norma Jean
  Norma Jean (singer)
  Norma Jean Beasler , better known as Norma Jean, is an American country music singer who was a member of The Porter Wagoner Show from 1961–1967. She had a number of country singles in the Top 10 and Top 20 between 1963 and 1967, including "Go Cat Go" and "The Game of Triangles", and was...
  
   (born 1938)
• Paul Jefferson
  Paul Jefferson
  Paul Jefferson is an American country music artist. Jefferson has released one studio album on Almo Sounds; he also charted three singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart...
  
   (born 1961)
• Herb Jeffreys (born 1913)
• The Jenkins
  The Jenkins
  The Jenkins was an American country music group comprising Nancy Jenkins and her daughters, Kacie and Brodie. The trio had two singles in the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs charts: "Blame It on Mama" at #34 and "Getaway Car" at #38. The latter was later a single for Hall & Oates...
  
  
• The Rev. Andrew Jenkins
  Andrew Jenkins
  The Rev. Andrew W. Jenkins was a leading composer of American country, folk and gospel songs. He is credited with more than 800 compositions, about a third of which were nonsacred...
  
   (1895-1957)
• Matt Jenkins
  Matt Jenkins
  Matt Jenkins is an American country music artist. Signed to Universal South Records in 2003, he released two singles in 2005, including "King of the Castle", a #51 on the Hot Country Songs charts, but did not release an album. He also appeared on the Fox Networks reality show Nashville, which was...
  
  
• Shooter Jennings
  Shooter Jennings
  Waylon Albright "Shooter" Jennings is an American singer-songwriter active in the country music and Southern rock genres as well as making his first foray into psychedelic rock in 2009...
  
   (born 1979)
• Waylon Jennings
  Waylon Jennings
  Waylon Arnold Jennings was an American country music singer, songwriter, and musician. Jennings began playing at eight. He began performing at twelve, on KVOW radio. Jennings formed a band The Texas Longhorns. Jennings worked as a D.J on KVOW, KDAV and KLLL...
  
   (1937-2002)
• Jewel (born 1974)
• Buddy Jewell
  Buddy Jewell
  Buddy Jewell Jr. is an American country music artist who was the first winner on the USA Network talent show Nashville Star. Signed to Columbia Records in 2003, Jewell made his debut on the American country music scene with the release of his self-titled album, which produced the singles "Help...
  
   (born 1961)
• Carolyn Dawn Johnson
  Carolyn Dawn Johnson
  Carolyn Dawn Johnson is a Canadian Juno Award winning country music singer-songwriter. Johnson first rose to fame by co-writing Chely Wright's 1999 Number One single, "Single White Female," which reached number one on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in September 1999...
  
   (born 1971)
• Jamey Johnson
  Jamey Johnson
  Jamey Johnson is an American Grammy Award nominated country music artist. Signed to BNA Records in 2005, Johnson made his debut with his single "The Dollar," the title track to his 2006 album The Dollar...
  
   (born 1975)
• Jill Johnson
  Jill Johnson
  Jill Anna Maria Johnson, , is a Swedish country- and pop-singer and songwriter. She performed the Melodifestivalen 1998 winning song Kärleken är, and represented Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest 1998 with that song, which finished 10th with 53 points. In 2003 she again entered Melodifestivalen...
  
   (born 1973)
• Jolie & The Wanted
  Jolie & The Wanted
  Jolie & the Wanted was an American country music band composed of Jolie Edwards , Phil Symonds , Jonathan Trebing , Steve King , Ethan Pilzer and Andy Hull...
  
  
• David Lynn Jones
  David Lynn Jones
  David Lynn Jones is an American country music singer-songwriter. Between 1987 and 1994, Jones released four studio albums. He also charted four singles on Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart...
  
   (born 1950)
• George Jones
  George Jones
  George Glenn Jones is an American country music singer known for his long list of hit records, his distinctive voice and phrasing, and his marriage to Tammy Wynette....
  
   (born 1931)
• Grandpa Jones
  Grandpa Jones
  Louis Marshall Jones , known professionally as Grandpa Jones, was an American banjo player and "old time" country and gospel music singer...
  
   (1913-1998)
• J. C. Jones
  J. C. Jones
  J. C. Jones is an American country music artist. Jones was signed to a recording deal with Rising Tide Records and released his debut album, One Night, in 1998...
  
   (born 1973)
• Cledus T. Judd
  Cledus T. Judd
  Barry Poole is an American country music artist who records under the name Cledus T. Judd. Known primarily for his parodies of popular country music songs, he has been called the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music, and his albums are usually an equal mix of original comedy songs and parodies...
  
   (born 1964)

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• Kieran Kane
  Kieran Kane
  Kieran Kane is an American country music artist, as well as the owner of Dead Reckoning Records, an independent record label. Between 1986 and 1990, he and Jamie O'Hara comprised The O'Kanes, a duo which charted seven singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles charts, including the Number...
  
   (born 1949)
• Gay Kayler
  Gay Kayler
  Gay Kayler is an Australian country music entertainer and recording artist. Gay used her maiden name in her professional career until 1978, when she changed the spelling to Kayler to maintain a consistency of pronunciation.- A blossoming career :Gay comes from a musical family...
  
   (born 1941)
• Toby Keith
  Toby Keith
  Toby Keith Covel , best known as Toby Keith, is an American country music singer-songwriter, record producer and actor. Keith released his first four studio albums — 1993's Toby Keith, 1994's Boomtown, 1996's Blue Moon and 1997's Dream Walkin, plus a Greatest Hits package for various divisions of...
  
   (born 1961)
• The Kendalls
  The Kendalls
  The Kendalls was an American country music duo, consisting of Royce Kendall and his daughter Jeannie Kendall . Between the 1960s and 1990s, they released sixteen albums on various labels, including five on Mercury Records...
  
  
• Joan Kennedy
  Joan Kennedy (musician)
  Joan Kennedy is a female country music singer. She came to fame after winning the Canadian National Talent Contest in 1983 and issued her first album, I'm a Big Girl Now, the following year in 1984...
  
  
• The Kentucky Headhunters
  The Kentucky Headhunters
  The Kentucky Headhunters are an American country rock band. They were founded in 1968 as Itchy Brother, which comprised brothers Richard Young and Fred Young along with Greg Martin and Anthony Kenney...
  
  
• Lee Kernaghan
  Lee Kernaghan
  Lee Kernaghan OAM is an Australian country music singer and songwriter. He was the 2008 Australian of the Year.-Honours:Kernaghan received the Order of Australia Medal in 2004....
  
   (born 1964)
• Tania Kernaghan
  Tania Kernaghan
  Tania Maree Kernaghan is an Australian country music singer.She is the sister of Lee Kernaghan and daughter of Ray Kernaghan-Career:In 1992 Kernaghan released her first single, "I'll Be Gone"...
  
   (born 1968)
• David Kersh
  David Kersh
  David Kersh is an American country music singer who made his debut in 1996. His first album, Goodnight Sweetheart, was released that year, producing four singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts. A second album, titled If I Never Stop Loving You, was released a year later,...
  
   (born 1970)
• Doug Kershaw
  Doug Kershaw
  Doug Kershaw, born January 24, 1936, is an American fiddle player, singer and songwriter from Louisiana. Active since 1949, Kershaw has recorded fifteen albums and charted on the Hot Country Songs charts.- Early life :...
  
   (born 1936)
• Sammy Kershaw
  Sammy Kershaw
  Samuel Paul "Sammy" Kershaw is an American country music artist. A third cousin of Cajun fiddler Doug Kershaw and ex-husband of Lorrie Morgan, he has been active in country music since 1991. He has released ten studio albums, with three RIAA platinum certifications and two gold certifications...
  
   (born 1958)
• Hal Ketchum
  Hal Ketchum
  Hal Michael Ketchum is an American country music artist. He has released ten studio albums since 1986, including nine for the Curb and Asylum-Curb labels. Ketchum's 1991 album Past the Point of Rescue is his most commercially successful, having been certified gold by the Recording Industry...
  
   (born 1953)
• Jerry Kilgore
  Jerry Kilgore (singer)
  Jerry Kilgore is an American country music artist. He has recorded two studio albums: 1999's Love Trip on the Virgin Records label, and 2007's Loaded & Empty on his personal Nic-Nic-Neer label. The former album produced three chart singles on the Billboard country music charts, including a Top 40...
  
   (born 1964)
• Merle Kilgore
  Merle Kilgore
  Wyatt Merle Kilgore was an American singer, songwriter, and manager.-Early life:Although born in Chickasha, Oklahoma, Merle Kilgore was raised in Shreveport, Louisiana. He was the son of Wyatt and Gladys B. Kilgore...
  
   (1934-2005)
• Claude King
  Claude King
  Claude King is an American country music singer and songwriter, best known for his million selling 1962 hit, "Wolverton Mountain".-Biography:...
  
   (born 1923)
• Don King
  Don King (musician)
  Donald Alan "Don" King is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and trumpeter. In the 1970s and 1980s, he recorded a total of four major label albums, and charted more than fifteen hit singles on the Billboard country music charts.-Early career:His first job was at a Quality Inn Hotel club in...
  
   (born 1954)
• Jill King
  Jill King
  Jill Christine King is an American country music artist. A graduate of Vanderbilt University, she spent several years in Nashville, Tennessee, before being discovered at Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, a popular venue for singer-songwriters in Nashville.In 2003, she released her debut album, Jillbilly,...
  
   (born 1975)
• Matt King
  Matt King (singer)
  Matt King is an American country singer-songwriter. King was born and raised in Asheville, North Carolina. His mother, a real estate agent, played piano, and his father, who held jobs as an auctioneer, mason, and barber, played bluegrass guitar. Early in his career he was offered a position at...
  
   (born 1966)
• The Kinleys
  The Kinleys
  The Kinleys was an American country music duo composed of identical twin sisters Heather and Jennifer Kinley, born November 5, 1970 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Between 1997 and 2000, they recorded two albums for the Epic Records label , also charting eight singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot...
  
  
• Chad Klinger
  Chad Klinger
  Chad Klinger is a Canadian country music artist. Klinger recorded his self-titled debut CD in Nashville in 1998, produced by Dean Sams of Lonestar. Two singles released from the project, "Who Needs the Moon" and "Bring It On," reached the Top 30 of the RPM Country Tracks chart...
  
  
• Jeff Knight
  Jeff Knight
  -Track listing:#"Tearing Down Walls" – 3:43#"You Gotta Let Go – 3:02#"They've Been Talkin' About Me" – 3:15#"I Wish She Didn't Know Me" – 3:25...
  
  
• Steve Kolander
  Steve Kolander
  Steve Kolander is an American country music artist. He debuted in 1994 with the release of his self-titled album on A&M Records, which produced the single "Listen to Your Woman", a #63 hit on the Hot Country Songs charts...
  
   (born 1961)
• Mark Knopfler
  Mark Knopfler
  Mark Freuder Knopfler, OBE is a Scottish-born British guitarist, singer, songwriter, record producer and film score composer. He is best known as the lead guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter for the British rock band Dire Straits, which he co-founded in 1977...
  
   (born 1949)
• Alison Krauss
  Alison Krauss
  Alison Maria Krauss is an American bluegrass-country singer, songwriter and fiddler. She entered the music industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in...
  
   (born 1971)
• Kris Kristofferson
  Kris Kristofferson
  Kristoffer "Kris" Kristofferson is an American musician, actor, and writer. He is known for hits such as "Me and Bobby McGee", "For the Good Times", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night"...
  
   (born 1936)

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• Bill LaBounty
  Bill LaBounty
  Bill LaBounty is an American musician. He was initially a singer-songwriter in the soft rock genre, first as a member of the band Fat Chance, and later as a solo artist. As a solo artist, LaBounty recorded six studio albums, including four on Curb Records/Warner Bros. Records...
  
  
• Ladies of the Canyon
  Ladies of the Canyon (band)
  Ladies of the Canyon is a Canadian country music group from Montreal, Quebec composed of Senja Sargeant, Maia Davies, Jasmine Bleile and Anna Ruddick. Their first single, "Follow Me Down," debuted in the top 50 of the BDS Canadian Country Singles Chart in May 2010...
  
  
• Lady Antebellum
  Lady Antebellum
  Lady Antebellum is an American country pop music group formed in Nashville, Tennessee in 2006. The trio is composed of Charles Kelley , Dave Haywood and Hillary Scott .The group made its debut in 2007 as guest vocalists on Jim Brickman's single "Never Alone", before signing to Capitol...
  
  
• Holly Lamar
  Holly Lamar
  Holly Lamar is an American country music singer-songwriter. Lamar co-wrote "Breathe," a number one country and adult contemporary single by Faith Hill. Her songs have also been recorded by Sara Evans, Wynonna Judd, Lonestar, Tim McGraw, Jo Dee Messina and Jessica Simpson, among others.In 2002,...
  
  
• Miranda Lambert
  Miranda Lambert
  Miranda Lambert is an American country music artist who gained fame as a finalist on the 2003 season of Nashville Star, where she finished in third place and later signed to Epic Records. Lambert made her debut with the release of "Me and Charlie Talking", the first single from her 2005 debut...
  
   (born 1983)
• k.d. lang
  K.D. Lang
  Kathryn Dawn Lang, OC , known by her stage name k.d. lang, is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress...
  
   (born 1961)
• Blaine Larsen
  Blaine Larsen
  Blaine Larsen is an American country music artist. He was raised in Buckley, Washington. At age fifteen, he recorded his debut album In My High School on Giantslayer Records, an independent record label. The album was re-issued in 2005 as Off to Join the World by BNA Records...
  
   (born 1986)
• Tracy Lawrence
  Tracy Lawrence
  Tracy Lawrence is an American country music artist. He started at a country music restaurant called "Live At Libby's" where owner Libby Knight would help local talent find their way into country music...
  
   (born 1968)
• Shannon Lawson
  Shannon Lawson (singer)
  Shannon Lawson is an American country music artist. He is also a member of the MuzikMafia, a collection of country musicians known for their "music without prejudice"....
  
   (born 1973)
• Bernie Leadon
  Bernie Leadon
  Bernard Mathew "Bernie" Leadon, III is an American musician and songwriter, best known as a founding member of the Eagles. Prior to the Eagles, he was a member of two pioneering and highly influential country rock bands, Dillard & Clark and the Flying Burrito Brothers...
  
   (born 1947)
• Chris LeDoux
  Chris LeDoux
  Chris Ledoux was an American country music singer-songwriter, bronze sculptor and rodeo champion.During his career LeDoux recorded 36 albums which have sold more than six million units in the United States as of January 2007...
  
   (1948-2005)
• Zella Lehr
  Zella Lehr
  Zella Lehr is an American singer and entertainer. She had hit records on RCA Records and Columbia Records, most notably Dolly Parton's "Two Doors Down"...
  
   (born 1951)
• Brenda Lee
  Brenda Lee
  Brenda Mae Tarpley , known as Brenda Lee, is an American performer who sang rockabilly, pop and country music, and had 37 US chart hits during the 1960s, a number surpassed only by Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Ray Charles and Connie Francis...
  
   (born 1944)
• Jesse Lee
  Jesse Lee (singer)
  Jesse Lee is an American country music singer. Signed to Atlantic Nashville in 2007, she released her debut single "It's a Girl Thing" in 2009, which debuted on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart dated for June 6, 2009. A second single, "Like My Mother Does," was released in 2010, which failed...
  
   (born ca. 1987)
• Robin Lee
  Robin Lee (singer)
  Robin Lee Irwin is an American country music artist, known professionally as Robin Lee or Robin Lee Bruce. After several years on an independent label, Lee broke through on the country music scene in 1990 with her cover of Alannah Myles' Number One pop single "Black Velvet"...
  
   (born 1970)
• Woody Lee
  Woody Lee
  Woody Lee is an American country music singer and songwriter. Signed to Atlantic Records in 1995, he released his debut album Get Over It that year...
  
   (born 1968)
• Danni Leigh
  Danni Leigh
  Danni Leigh is an American honky tonk-style country music singer. At age 19, she relocated to Orlando, Florida, intending to audition as a singer at Disney World but ended up moving to Nashville in 1994....
  
   (born 1970)
• Bobby Lewis
  Bobby Lewis (country singer)
  Bobby Lewis is an American country music singer-songwriter. Between 1963 and 1985, Lewis released ten albums and charted more than twenty-five songs on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. His biggest hit, "How Long Has It Been," peaked at Number 6 in 1966.-Albums:-Singles:-External links:*[...
  
   (born 1942)
• Jerry Lee Lewis
  Jerry Lee Lewis
  Jerry Lee Lewis is an American rock and roll and country music singer-songwriter and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis's career faltered after he married his young cousin, and he afterwards made a career extension to country and western music. He is known by the nickname 'The...
  
   (born 1935)
• Aaron Lines
  Aaron Lines
  Anthony Aaron Lines is a Canadian country musician. Active since 2001, he has recorded for RCA, BNA and On Ramp Records, and has charted three singles on the Hot Country Songs charts in the United States.-Love Changes Everything:...
  
   (born 1977)
• Little Texas
  Little Texas
  Little Texas is an American country music band founded in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1988 by Tim Rushlow , Brady Seals , Del Gray , Porter Howell , Dwayne O'Brien , and Duane Propes . Signed to Warner Bros...
  
  
• Little Big Town
  Little Big Town
  Little Big Town is an American country music vocal group. Founded in 1998, the group has comprised the same four members since its inception: Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Jimi Westbrook, and Phillip Sweet. The quartet's musical style relies heavily on four-part vocal harmonies, with all...
  
  
• LoCash Cowboys
  LoCash Cowboys
  LoCash Cowboys is an American country music duo composed of Chris Lucas and Preston Brust, natives of Baltimore, Maryland and Kokomo, Indiana, respectively. The duo is signed to R&J Records , for which they have released three singles...
  
  
• Hank Locklin
  Hank Locklin
  Lawrence Hankins Locklin , better known as Hank Locklin, was an American country music singer-songwriter...
  
   (1918-2009)
• Josh Logan
  Josh Logan (country singer)
  Josh Logan is an American country music artist. He has recorded three albums, including one for the Curb Records label in 1988...
  
  
• Lonestar
  Lonestar
  Lonestar is an American country music group consisting of Richie McDonald , Michael Britt , Keech Rainwater , Dean Sams , and Michael Hill . McDonald left the band in November 2007 for a solo career before returning in 2011...
  
  
• Lonzo and Oscar
  Lonzo and Oscar
  Lonzo and Oscar were an American country music duo originally consisting of Lloyd Leslie George and Rollin Lillian Sullivan , best known for being the first to perform the 1948 song "I'm My Own Grandpa". Lonzo was later portrayed by Johnny Sullivan from 1950–1967 and by David Hooten from...
  
  
• The Lost Trailers
  The Lost Trailers
  The Lost Trailers is an American country music band. Established in 2000, the band originally comprised Ryder Lee , Manny Medina , Andrew Nielson , Stokes Nielson , and Jeff Potter...
  
  
• John D. Loudermilk
  John D. Loudermilk
  John D. Loudermilk is an American singer and songwriter.-Biography:Born in Durham, North Carolina, Loudermilk grew up in a family who were members of the Salvation Army faith and was influenced by the church singing. His cousins Ira and Charlie Loudermilk were known professionally as the Louvin...
  
   (born 1934)
• Love and Theft
  Love and Theft (band)
  Love and Theft, an American country music duo, is composed of Stephen Barker Liles and Eric Gunderson, both of whom sing lead vocals and play guitar. Love and Theft originally formed as a trio, along with Brian Bandas , in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2006...
  
  
• The Louvin Brothers Ira (1924-1965) Charlie (1927-2011)
• Patty Loveless
  Patty Loveless
  Patty Loveless , is an American country music singer.Since her emergence on the country music scene in late 1986 with her first album, Loveless has been one of the most popular female singers of the Neotraditional country movement, although she has also recorded albums in the Country pop and...
  
   (born 1957)
• Lyle Lovett
  Lyle Lovett
  Lyle Pearce Lovett is an American singer-songwriter and actor. Active since 1980, he has recorded thirteen albums and released 21 singles to date, including his highest entry, the number 10 chart hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, "Cowboy Man"...
  
   (born 1957)
• Lauren Lucas
  Lauren Lucas
  Lauren Lucas is an American country music artist. In her career, she has been signed to a development deal at the age of sixteen by RCA Records and a recording contract in 2003 with Warner Bros. Records. A single was released in 2005, but no album...
  
  
• Corb Lund and the Hurtin' Albertans
  Corb Lund and the Hurtin' Albertans
  Corb Lund and the Hurtin' Albertans are a Canadian country music band, formerly known as the Corb Lund Band.-Corb Lund:Corb Lund, the lead singer, grew up in Southern Alberta living on his family's farm and ranches near Taber, Cardston and Rosemary. He is proud of being an Albertan...
  
  
• Jacob Lyda
  Jacob Lyda
  Jacob Lyda is an American country music singer. He is signed to Davis Music Group and is being promoted by Nine North Records. In early 2011, Lyda released his debut single "I'm Doin' Alright", which has charted on Hot Country Songs...
  
   (born 1975)
• Loretta Lynn
  Loretta Lynn
  Loretta Lynn is an American country music singer-songwriter, author and philanthropist. Born in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky to a coal miner father, Lynn married at 13 years old, was a mother soon after, and moved to Washington with her husband, Oliver Lynn. Their marriage was sometimes tumultuous; he...
  
   (born April 14, 1935)
• Rockie Lynne
  Rockie Lynne
  Rockie Lynn Rash is an American country music artist, known professionally as Rockie Lynne. He was signed to Universal South Records in late 2005, releasing his self-titled debut album in early 2006. This album produced three singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including the...
  
   (born 1964)
• Shelby Lynne
  Shelby Lynne
  Shelby Lynne is an American singer, songwriter and actress. The success of the 1999 album I Am Shelby Lynne led to her winning the Grammy Award for Best New Artist, even though she had been active in the music industry for some time...
  
   (born 1968)
• The Lynns
  The Lynns
  The Lynns is an American country music duo, consisting of Loretta Lynn's twin daughters, Peggy Lynn and Patsy Lynn. The Lynns have received CMA Award nominations for Vocal Duo of the Year in 1998 and 1999.-Albums:-Singles:-Music videos:...
  
  

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• Big Tom And The Mainliners
  Big Tom and The Mainliners
  Big Tom and The Mainliners are a Country and Irish Showband from the Castleblayney area of County Monaghan, Ireland.-1966-1975:Originally named as "The Mighty Mainliners Showband", the band achieved fame after appearing on RTÉ Television's Showband Show broadcast on 21 May 1966 performing Gentle...
  
  
• Warner Mack
  Warner Mack
  Warner MacPherson , known professionally as Warner Mack, is an American country music singer-songwriter. Mack had many hits on the country charts from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, some of which crossed over to the pop charts....
  
   (born 1938)
• Rita MacNeil
  Rita MacNeil
  Rita MacNeil, CM, ONS is a Canadian country and folk singer from the community of Big Pond on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island. Her biggest hit, "Flying On Your Own", was a crossover Top 40 hit in 1987 and was covered by Anne Murray the following year, although she has had hits on the country...
  
   (born 1944)
• Uncle Dave Macon
  Uncle Dave Macon
  Uncle Dave Macon , born David Harrison Macon—also known as "The Dixie Dewdrop"—was an American banjo player, singer, songwriter, and comedian...
  
   (1870-1952)
• Rose Maddox
  Rose Maddox
  Roselea Maddox , better known as Rose Maddox, was an American country singer-songwriter and fiddle player.Born in Boaz, Alabama, Maddox was the singer in the Maddox Brothers and Rose....
  
   (1925-1998)
• Lloyd Maines
  Lloyd Maines
  Lloyd Maines is an American Grammy Award-winning country music record producer, musician and songwriter. He was born and raised in Lubbock, Texas and is now based in Bulverde, Texas....
  
   (born 1951)
• Charlie Major
  Charlie Major
  Charlie Major is a Canadian country music artist. He has recorded six studio albums and released more than twenty singles....
  
   (born 1954)
• Tim Malchak
  Tim Malchak
  Tim Malchak is an American country music singer-songwriter. Malchak partnered with Dwight Rucker in 1982 to form the country music duo Malchak & Rucker...
  
   (born 1957)
• Barbara Mandrell
  Barbara Mandrell
  Barbara Ann Mandrell is an American country music singer best known for a 1970s–1980s series of Top 10 hits and TV shows that helped her become one of country's most successful female vocalists of the 1970s and 1980s...
  
   (born 1948)
• Sarah Marince
  Sarah Marince
  Sarah Marince is an American country music singer from Moon Township, Pennsylvania. Active as a singer since childhood, she self-released one album in 2008...
  
   (born ca. 1990)
• Chris Marion
  Chris Marion
  Chris Marion is an American musician best known as a member of Little River Band and for his contribution to the gospel music industry....
  
   (born 1962)
• Dean Martin
  Dean Martin
  Dean Martin was an American singer, film actor, television star and comedian. Martin's hit singles included "Memories Are Made of This", "That's Amore", "Everybody Loves Somebody", "You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You", "Sway", "Volare" and "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?"...
  
   (1917-1995)
• Krista Marie
  Krista Marie
  Krista Marie is an American country music artist, signed to Broken Bow Records subsidiary Holeshot Records. She has charted twice on the Billboard country singles charts. She plans to release an album via Broken Bow in the near future; the original release was planned for 2009 but has been...
  
  
• Marie Sisters
  Marie Sisters
  -Track listing:#"Real Bad Mood" – 4:00#"Oh Yeah" – 3:04#"Strong for You" – 3:24#"Bring It On Back" – 4:00#"You Were a Mountain" -Track listing:#"Real Bad Mood" (Don Poythress, Leslie Satcher) – 4:00#"Oh Yeah" (Jeremy Campbell, Noah Gordon) – 3:04#"Strong for You" (Max T. Barnes, T.W. Hale) –...
  
  
• Marshall Dyllon
  Marshall Dyllon
  Marshall Dyllon was an American country music group formed in 2000, comprising vocalists Daniel Cahoon, Jesse Littleton, Michael Martin, Paul Martin, and Todd Michael Sansom...
  
  
• Marshall Tucker Band
  Marshall Tucker Band
  The Marshall Tucker Band is an American Southern rock band originally from Spartanburg, South Carolina. The band's blend of rock, rhythm and blues, jazz, country, and gospel helped establish the Southern rock genre in the early 1970s...
  
  
• Leland Martin
  Leland Martin
  Leland Martin is an American country singer. Martin was one of nine children; his grandmother and father were both country singers. He held jobs as a truck driver, house painter, and in a sawmill before signing with Rival Records, who issued his debut album in 1998...
  
   (born 1957)
• Mila Mason
  Mila Mason
  Mila Mason is an American country music artist. She made her debut on the country music scene in 1996 with the release of her debut album That's Enough of That, which produced three hit singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts, including its title track...
  
   (born 1963)
• Mason Dixon
  Mason Dixon (band)
  Mason Dixon was an American country music trio, composed of Frank Gilligan , Jerry Dengler Rick Henderson . The band played frequently within the Texas nightclub scene for several years and went on to tour the U.S. and Canada for several more.-Career:The group's first single, released in 1983, was...
  
  
• Kathy Mattea
  Kathy Mattea
  Kathleen Alice "Kathy" Mattea is an American country music and bluegrass performer who often brings folk, Celtic and traditional country sounds to her music. Active since 1983 as a recording artist, she has recorded seventeen albums and has charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot...
  
   (born 1959)
• Matthews, Wright & King
  Matthews, Wright & King
  Matthews, Wright & King was an American country music group formed in 1991. The band, Raymond Matthews , Woody Wright and Tony King , was put together by Columbia Records producer Larry Strickland after Shenandoah left the label, as an attempt to keep a viable country band on that label...
  
  
• The Mavericks
  The Mavericks
  The Mavericks is a country music band founded in 1989 in Miami, Florida, United States. Between 1991 and 2003 they recorded six studio albums, in addition to charting 14 singles on the Billboard country charts...
  
  
• McAlyster
  McAlyster
  McAlyster was an American country music group founded in Pensacola, Florida. Its members comprised Cody Collins, Josh Walther, Leigh Usilton and Valerie Gills. They were signed to MCA Nashville Records in 2000...
  
  
• Mac McAnally
  Mac McAnally
  Lyman Corbitt "Mac" McAnally, Jr. is an American country music singer-songwriter, session musician and record producer. In his career, he has recorded ten studio albums and eight singles. Two of his singles were hits on the Billboard Hot 100, and six more on the Hot Country Songs charts...
  
   (born 1957)
• Shane McAnally
  Shane McAnally
  Shane McAnally , is an American country music artist. He signed to Curb Records in 1999 and released a self-titled debut album the following year...
  
   (born 1974)
• Martina McBride
  Martina McBride
  Martina McBride is an American country music singer and songwriter. McBride has been called the "Céline Dion of Country Music" for her big-voiced ballads and soprano range....
  
   (born 1966)
• McBride & the Ride
  McBride & the Ride
  McBride & the Ride was an American country music band initially composed of Terry McBride , Ray Herndon and Billy Thomas . The group was founded in 1989 through the assistance of record producer Tony Brown...
  
  
• Darrell McCall
  Darrell McCall
  Darrell McCall is a country music performer, known for his honky tonk and traditional country musical style at the height of his career in the 1960s, and his return to popularity during the Outlaw country era in the late 1970s....
  
   (born 1940)
• Lila McCann
  Lila McCann
  Lila Elaine McCann is an American country music singer who made her debut at age sixteen with the single "Down Came a Blackbird." Reaching a peak of #28 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts, the song was the first release from her 1997 album Lila, which became the highest-selling...
  
   (born 1981)
• Harry McClintock
  Harry McClintock
  Harry Kirby McClintock , also known as "Haywire Mac," was an American singer and poet. Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, "the son of a railroad cabinetmaker and nephew of four boomer trainmen. His drifting began when he ran away from home as a boy to join a circus...
  
   (1882-1957)
• Delbert McClinton
  Delbert McClinton
  Delbert McClinton is an American blues rock and electric blues singer-songwriter, guitarist, harmonica player, and pianist....
  
   (born 1940)
• Brian McComas
  Brian McComas
  Brian McComas is an American country music artist. Originally signed to Mercury Nashville Records in 2001, McComas charted two minor singles in 2001 and 2002. A year later, he switched to Lyric Street Records, charting the Top Ten single "99.9% Sure " on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks...
  
   (born 1972)
• Jason McCoy
  Jason McCoy
  Jason McCoy is a Canadian singer/songwriter who performs country music.He was born in Barrie, Ontario and was raised for a time in Camrose, Alberta before his family settled in Anten Mills, Ontario.He has won many awards including the 2001 Male Vocalist of the Year at the Canadian Country Music...
  
   (born 1970)
• Neal McCoy
  Neal McCoy
  Hubert Neal McGaughey, Jr. is an American country music singer of mixed Irish and Filipino descent. Known professionally as Neal McCoy, he has released ten studio albums on various labels, and has released 34 singles to country radio...
  
   (born 1958)
• Mindy McCready
  Mindy McCready
  Melinda Gayle "Mindy" McCready is an American country music singer. Active since 1996, she has recorded a total of five studio albums. Her debut album, 1996's Ten Thousand Angels, was released on BNA Records and was certified 2× Multi-Platinum by the RIAA, while 1997's If I Don't Stay the...
  
   (born 1975)
• Rich McCready
  Rich McCready
  Rich McCready is an American country music singer-songwriter. McCready signed to Magnatone Records in 1995 and recorded two albums for the label. His highest charting single, "Thinkin' Strait," peaked at number 53 in 1996.-Albums:-Singles:-Music videos:-External links:...
  
   (born 1970)
• Scotty McCreery
  Scotty McCreery
  Scott Cooke "Scotty" McCreery is an American country singer from Garner, North Carolina . He also won the tenth season of American Idol on May 25, 2011. His debut studio album, Clear as Day was released in October 2011...
  
   (born 1993)
• Anne McCue
  Anne McCue
  Anne McCue is an alternative country singer-songwriter, guitarist & producer from Australia.- Early life and education :McCue grew up in Campbelltown, an area southwest of Sydney, Australia and graduated from the University of Technology, Sydney with a degree in Film Production and Film Studies...
  
  
• Pake McEntire
  Pake McEntire
  Del Stanley McEntire is an American country music artist. He is the oldest brother of Reba McEntire and Susie Luchsinger and a younger brother of Alice Foran. He's also a country music artist...
  
   (born 1953)
• Reba McEntire
  Reba McEntire
  Reba Nell McEntire is an American country music artist and actress. She began her career in the music industry as a high school student singing in the Kiowa High School band , on local radio shows with her siblings, and at rodeos. As a solo act, she was invited to perform at a rodeo in Oklahoma...
  
   (born 1955)
• Darren McGinnis
  Darren McGinnis
  Darren McGinnis is a Canadian country music singer. He debuted in 2009 with the single "More Than Me", a Top 40 hit on the Radio & Records Canadian country charts.-Studio albums:-Singles:-References:* at CMT.ca...
  
  
• Tim McGraw
  Tim McGraw
  Samuel Timothy "Tim" McGraw is an American country singer and actor. Many of McGraw's albums and singles have topped the country music charts with total album sales in excess of 40 million units in the US, making him the eighth best-selling artist, and the third best-selling country singer, in the...
  
   (born 1967)
• McGuffey Lane
  McGuffey Lane
  McGuffey Lane is an American country rock band from Columbus, Ohio. McGuffey Lane was formed in 1972 by Terry Efaw and Steve Reis, who played together under the name Scotch & Soda...
  
  
• McHayes
  McHayes
  McHayes was an American country music duo established in 2003 by Wade Hayes , along with musician Mark McClurg . Prior to the duo's foundation, Hayes was a solo artist, and McClurg was a member of Alan Jackson's road band, The Strayhorns...
  
  
• Scott McQuaig
  Scott McQuaig
  Scott McQuaig is an American country music singer-songwriter. In 1989, McQuaig charted two singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. A third single charted on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada in 1990.-Albums:-Singles:-References:...
  
   (born 1960)
• Jason Meadows
  Jason Meadows
  Jason Meadows is a country music artist signed to Baccerstick Records. He was raised in Calera, Oklahoma. Meadows was a second-place finalist on the third season of the USA Networks talent show Nashville Star...
  
  
• Tim Mensy
  Tim Mensy
  Timmie Menzies is an American country music artist known as Tim Mensy. Initially, he was a member of the band Bandana, in which he charted several singles on the Hot Country Songs charts in the 1980s...
  
   (born 1959)
• Jo Dee Messina
  Jo Dee Messina
  Jo Dee Marie Messina , known professionally as Jo Dee Messina, is an American country music artist. She has charted nine Number One singles on the Billboard country music charts. She has been honored by the Country Music Association, the Academy of Country Music and has been nominated for two...
  
   (born 1970)
• Georgia Middleman
  Georgia Middleman
  Georgia Leigh Middleman is an American country singer. Middleman sang from age ten at the Texas Star Inn in San Antonio, and began writing songs shortly thereafter. She sold recordings of her first song, There's a Rainbow in Everybody's Heart, on her elementary school playground...
  
   (born 1967)
• Buddy Miller
  Buddy Miller
  Buddy Miller is a country singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist and producer, currently living in Nashville, Tennessee...
  
   (born 1952)
• Dean Miller
  Dean Miller
  Roger Dean Miller, Jr. is an American country music artist, known professionally as Dean Miller. He is the son of Roger Miller, a country pop artist who had several hit singles between the 1960s and 1980s...
  
   (born 1966)
• Jody Miller
  Jody Miller
  Jody Brooks is an American country music singer. Born as Myrna Joy Miller, she was born in Phoenix, Arizona and raised in Oklahoma.-Career:...
  
   (born 1941)
• Julie Miller
  Julie Miller
  Julie Miller is a songwriter, singer, and recording artist currently living in Nashville, Tennessee. She married Buddy Miller in 1981...
  
   (born 1956)
• Ned Miller
  Ned Miller
  Henry Ned Miller is an American country music artist. Active as a recording artist from 1956 to 1970, he is known primarily for his hit single, "From a Jack to a King", a crossover hit in 1962 which reached Top 10 on the country music, adult contemporary, and Billboard Hot 100 charts...
  
   (born 1925)
• Roger Miller
  Roger Miller
  Roger Dean Miller was an American singer, songwriter, musician and actor, best known for his honky tonk-influenced novelty songs...
  
   (1936-1992)
• Ronnie Milsap
  Ronnie Milsap
  Ronnie Lee Milsap is an American country music singer and pianist. He was one of country’s most popular and influential performers of the 1970s and 1980s...
  
   (born 1944)
• Shane Minor
  Shane Minor
  Shane Allen Minor is an American country music artist. Signed to Mercury Nashville Records in 1999, Minor released his self-titled album that year, and it produced three hit singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts...
  
   (born 1968)
• Beverley Mitchell
  Beverley Mitchell
  Beverley Ann Mitchell is an American actress and country music singer. She is best known for her role as Lucy Camden-Kinkirk on the television series 7th Heaven and Laura Hunter in the film Saw II.-Career:...
  
   (born 1981)
• Robert Mizzell
  Robert Mizzell
  Robert Mizzell , has made his home in Ireland for almost a decade. He served his apprenticeship in country music since he first arrived here and is now one of the top country artists in Ireland, his popularity spreading with extensive airplay in Europe and such distant territories as Australia...
  
   (born 1971)
• Molly & the Heymakers
  Molly & the Heymakers
  Molly & the Heymakers was an American country music group formed in 1990. The band consisted of Martha "Molly" Scheer , Andy Dee , Jeff Nelson , Joe Lindzius and Chad "C.J." Udeen...
  
  
• Vern Monnett
  Vern Monnett
  Vern Monnett is an American country and rock musician as well as an actor, producer, and composer. He has recorded and toured with such artists as Freddy Fender, Randy Meisner, Billy Swan, and Charlie Rich, Jr. Monnett sings as well as plays the guitar, pedal steel guitar, mandolin and Dobro...
  
   (born 1959)
• Bill Monroe
  Bill Monroe
  William Smith Monroe was an American musician who created the style of music known as bluegrass, which takes its name from his band, the "Blue Grass Boys," named for Monroe's home state of Kentucky. Monroe's performing career spanned 60 years as a singer, instrumentalist, composer and bandleader...
  
   (1911-1996)
• Billy Montana
  Billy Montana
  Billy Montana is an American country music singer-songwriter. Between 1987 and 1995, Montana released one studio album and charted six singles on Billboards Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart...
  
   (born 1959)
• Montgomery Gentry
  Montgomery Gentry
  Montgomery Gentry is an American country music duo composed of vocalists Eddie Montgomery and Troy Gentry. The two began performing in the 1990s as part of a band which also included Eddie Montgomery's brother John Michael Montgomery, and founded the existing duo in 1999.Signed to Columbia Records,...
  
  
• John Michael Montgomery
  John Michael Montgomery
  John Michael Montgomery is an American country music artist. He has produced more than thirty singles on the Billboard country charts, including two of Billboard’s Number One country singles of the year: "I Swear" and "Sold "...
  
   (born 1965)
• Melba Montgomery
  Melba Montgomery
  Melba Montgomery is an American country music singer. She is best known for duet hit recordings in the 1960s with country music singer George Jones....
  
   (born 1938)
• Justin Moore
  Justin Moore (singer)
  Justin Cole Moore is an American country music singer and songwriter signed to Big Machine Records imprint Valory Music Group. He has released two albums for Big Machine Records: Justin Moore in 2009 and Outlaws Like Me in 2011...
  
   (born 1984)
• Allison Moorer
  Allison Moorer
  Allison Moorer is an American alternative country singer and the younger sister of Shelby Lynne. She signed to MCA Nashville in 1998 and made her debut on the U.S...
  
   (born 1972)
• Craig Morgan (born 1965)
• George Morgan
  George Morgan (singer)
  George Thomas Morgan was a mid-20th century American country music singer. He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and a former member of the Grand Ole Opry.-Biography:...
  
   (1925-1975)
• Lorrie Morgan
  Lorrie Morgan
  In 1996 Morgan married Jon Randall, a singer/songwriter now credited with writing the 2004 Brad Paisley/Alison Krauss hit "Whiskey Lullaby"; they divorced three years later in 1999....
  
   (born 1959)
• Whitey Morgan and the 78's
  Whitey Morgan and the 78's
  Whitey Morgan and the 78's are honky tonk country band based in Flint, MI. In 2010 they signed a recording contract with Chicago based Bloodshot Records.-Formation and Early History:...
  
  
• Dude Mowrey
  Dude Mowrey
  -Track listing:#"Honky Tonk Song" #"It Could've Been Me" #"Cowboys Don't Cry" #"Heartbreak Train" -Track listing:#"Honky Tonk Song" (Mel Tillis, Buck Peddy)#"It Could've Been Me" (Curt Ryle, Johnny Park)#"Cowboys Don't Cry" (Jim Allison, Bob Simon, Doug Gilmore, Jeff Raymond)#"Heartbreak Train"...
  
   (born 1972)
• Megan Mullins
  Megan Mullins
  Megan Mullins is an American country music singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. At age eighteen, she made her debut on the country music scene with the single "Ain't What It Used to Be," a Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts...
  
   (born 1987)
• David Lee Murphy
  David Lee Murphy
  David Lee Murphy is an American country music artist. Signed to MCA Nashville Records in 1994, Murphy made his first appearance on the Billboard country charts that year with "Just Once", a song from the soundtrack to the 1994 film 8 Seconds. A year later, Murphy's debut album Out with a Bang was...
  
   (born 1959)
• Anne Murray
  Anne Murray
  Morna Anne Murray CC, ONS is a Canadian singer in pop, country and adult contemporary styles whose albums have sold over 54 million copies....
  
   (born 1945)

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• David Nail
  David Nail
  David Brent Nail is an American country music artist. In 2002, he debuted the single "Memphis," a cut from an unreleased album for Mercury Records Nashville. Five years later, he signed to MCA Nashville , and released the album I'm About to Come Alive in August 2009...
  
   (born 1979)
• Willie Nelson
  Willie Nelson
  Willie Hugh Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie , combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger and Stardust , made Nelson one of the most recognized...
  
   (born 1933)
• Jennifer Nettles
  Jennifer Nettles
  Jennifer Nettles is an American country music artist. She is known primarily for her role as lead vocalist of the duo Sugarland alongside Kristian Bush. Before Sugarland's inception, she also fronted Atlanta, Georgia-based bands called Soul Miner's Daughter and Jennifer Nettles Band...
  
   (born 1974)
• Aaron Neville
  Aaron Neville
  Aaron Neville is an American soul and R&B singer and musician. He has had four top-20 hits in the United States along with four platinum-certified albums...
  
   (born 1941)
• Heidi Newfield
  Heidi Newfield
  Heidi Newfield is an American country music artist. She was lead singer, rhythm guitarist and harmonica player for the group Trick Pony, alongside Keith Burns and Ira Dean from 1996 until 2006, when she left in pursuit of a solo career...
  
   (born 1970)
• Juice Newton
  Juice Newton
  Judith Kay "Juice" Newton is an American Pop music and Country singer, songwriter and guitarist...
  
   (born 1952)
• Olivia Newton-John
  Olivia Newton-John
  Olivia Newton-John AO, OBE is a singer and actress. She is a four-time Grammy award winner who has amassed five No. 1 and ten other Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 singles and two No. 1 Billboard 200 solo albums. Eleven of her singles and 14 of her albums have been certified gold by the RIAA...
  
   (born 1948)
• Joe Nichols (born 1976)
• Nickel Creek
  Nickel Creek
  Nickel Creek was an American progressive acoustic music trio consisting of Chris Thile , Sara Watkins and Sean Watkins . The band was founded in 1989 and released 6 albums between 1993 and 2006...
  
  
• Jerrod Niemann
  Jerrod Niemann
  Jerrod Lee Niemann is an American country music artist. Active since 2001, he has recorded two independent albums. In 2006, he signed to Category 5 Records and charted with the single "I Love Women "...
  
   (born 1979)
• Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
  Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
  The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is an American country-folk-rock band that has existed in various forms since its founding in Long Beach, California in 1966. The group's membership has had at least a dozen changes over the years, including a period from 1976 to 1981 when the band performed and recorded...
  
  
• Bob Nolan
  Bob Nolan
  Bob Nolan was a Canadian-born American singer, songwriter, and actor. He was a founding member of the Sons of the Pioneers, and composer of numerous Country music and Western music songs, including the standards "Cool Water" and "Tumbling Tumbleweeds." He is generally regarded as one of the...
  
   (1908-1980)
• The Notorious Cherry Bombs
  The Notorious Cherry Bombs
  The Notorious Cherry Bombs, originally called The Cherry Bombs, was an American country music supergroup founded by singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell in 1980. A former member of Emmylou Harris's Hot Band, Crowell picked several former Hot Band members as his backing band, which he named The Cherry...
  
  

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• Jamie O'Hara
  Jamie O'Hara (singer)
  Jamie O'Hara is an American country music artist. Between 1986 and 1990, he and Kieran Kane comprised The O'Kanes, a duo which charted seven singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles charts, including the Number One single "Can't Stop My Heart from Loving You"...
  
   (born 1950)
• The O'Kanes
  The O'Kanes
  The O'Kanes was an American country music duo, composed of Jamie O'Hara and Kieran Kane. Active between 1986 and 1990, the duo recorded three albums for Columbia Records and charted seven singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles charts, including the Number One "Can't Stop My Heart from Loving...
  
  
• Jamie O'Neal
  Jamie O'Neal
  Jamie O'Neal is a contemporary country singer and songwriter who has had success in the United States. She was born Jamie Murphy in Sydney, Australia, to parents Jimmy and Julie Murphy, who were also professional musicians...
  
   (born 1968)
• The Oak Ridge Boys
  The Oak Ridge Boys
  The Oak Ridge Boys are an American country and gospel vocal quartet.The group was founded in the 1940s as the Oak Ridge Quartet. They became popular in southern gospel during the 1950s...
  
  
• Old Dogs
  Old Dogs
  Old Dogs was an American country music supergroup composed of singers Waylon Jennings, Mel Tillis, Bobby Bare, and Jerry Reed. Signed in 1998 to Atlantic Records, Old Dogs recorded a self-titled studio album for the label that year. The album's content was written primarily by author, poet, and...
  
  
• Steven Lee Olsen
  Steven Lee Olsen
  Steven Lee Olsen is a Canadian country music artist. He released his debut single "Now" in 2009 on RGK Records, taken from his 2009 debut album Introducing Steven Lee Olsen...
  
   (born 1985)
• One Flew South
  One Flew South
  One Flew South is an American country music group composed of Eddie Bush, Chris Roberts, and Royal Reed, all three of whom sing lead vocals and play acoustic guitar. The group's first recording was a song for the soundtrack to the 2006 Disney animated film The Fox and the Hound 2...
  
  
• One Horse Blue
  One Horse Blue
  One Horse Blue was a Canadian country music group recently composed of Gord Maxwell , Larry Pink , Michael Shellard One Horse Blue was a Canadian country music group recently composed of Gord Maxwell (lead vocals, bass guitar), Larry Pink (keyboards), Michael Shellard One Horse Blue was a Canadian...
  
  
• One More Girl
  One More Girl
  One More Girl is a Canadian country music duo composed of actor-singers Carly McKillip and Britt McKillip, who are sisters. The duo signed to EMI Canada in 2008 and released their debut album, Big Sky, in 2009. In 2010, they won the Rising Star award at the Canadian Country Music Association Awards...
  
  
• Roy Orbison
  Roy Orbison
  Roy Kelton Orbison was an American singer-songwriter, well known for his distinctive, powerful voice, complex compositions, and dark emotional ballads. Orbison grew up in Texas and began singing in a rockabilly/country & western band in high school until he was signed by Sun Records in Memphis...
  
   (1936-1988)
• Robert Ellis Orrall
  Robert Ellis Orrall
  Robert Ellis Orrall is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. Signed to RCA Records in 1980, Orrall debuted that year with the album "Fixation". His first Top 40 single was "I Couldn't Say No", a duet with Carlene Carter...
  
   (born 1955)
• Orrall & Wright
  Orrall & Wright
  -Track listing:#"She Loves Me Like She Means It" – 2:44#"The Last Time I Loved Like That" – 3:50#"I'm Outta Here" -Track listing:#"She Loves Me Like She Means It" (Angelo Petraglia, Robert Ellis Orrall, Billy Spencer) – 2:44#"The Last Time I Loved Like That" (Orrall, Curtis Wright) – 3:50#"I'm...
  
  
• K.T. Oslin (born 1941)
• Marie Osmond
  Marie Osmond
  Olive Marie Osmond is an American singer, actress, doll designer, and a member of the show business family The Osmonds. Although she was never part of her family's singing group, she gained success as a solo country music artist in the 1970s and 1980s...
  
   (born 1959)
• Paul Overstreet
  Paul Overstreet
  Paul Lester Overstreet is an American country music singer and songwriter. He recorded 10 studio albums between 1982 and 2005, and charted 16 singles on the Billboard country charts, including two #1 hits...
  
   (born 1956)
• Randy Owen
  Randy Owen
  Randy Owen is an American country music artist. He is known primarily for his role as the lead singer of Alabama, a country rock band which saw considerable mainstream success throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Although Alabama only records new albums on occasion, Owen himself has maintained a career...
  
   (born 1949)
• Buck Owens
  Buck Owens
  Alvis Edgar Owens, Jr. , better known as Buck Owens, was an American singer and guitarist who had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music charts with his band, the Buckaroos...
  
   (1929-2006)

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• Patti Page
  Patti Page
  Clara Ann Fowler , known by her professional name Patti Page, is an American singer, one of the best-known female artists in traditional pop music. She was the best-selling female artist of the 1950s, and has sold over 100 million records...
  
   (born 1927)
• Brad Paisley
  Brad Paisley
  Brad Douglas Paisley is an American singer-songwriter and musician. His style crosses between traditional country music and Southern rock, and his songs are frequently laced with humor and pop culture references....
  
   (born 1972)
• Keith Palmer
  Keith Palmer (singer)
  Keith Palmer was an American country music artist. In 1991, Palmer released an album for Epic Records which produced two singles: "Don't Throw Me in the Briarpatch" and "Forgotten but Not Gone," both of which entered the Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts...
  
   (1957-1996)
• Rissi Palmer
  Rissi Palmer
  Rissi Palmer is an American country music artist. Palmer debuted in 2007 with the single "Country Girl", which made her the first African-American woman to chart a country song since Dona Mason in 1987...
  
   (born 1981)
• Palomino Road
  Palomino Road
  -Track listing:All songs written by Keith Follesé, Ronnie Guilbeau and Thom McHugh except where noted.#"Why Baby Why" – 2:33#"It Works Both Ways" – 2:40#"That's Where I Draw the Line" – 3:06...
  
  
• Billy Parker
  Billy Parker (singer)
  Billy Parker is an American country music disc jockey and singer. Parker was named Disc Jockey of the Year by the Country Music Association in 1974 and by the Academy of Country Music in 1975, 1977, 1978 and 1984...
  
   (born 1939)
• Lee Roy Parnell
  Lee Roy Parnell
  Lee Roy Parnell is an American country music artist. Active since 1990, he has recorded eight studio albums, and has charted more than twenty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts...
  
   (born 1956)
• Gram Parsons
  Gram Parsons
  Gram Parsons was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist. Parsons is best known for his work within the country genre; he also mixed blues, folk, and rock to create what he called "Cosmic American Music"...
  
   (1946-1973)
• Dolly Parton
  Dolly Parton
  Dolly Rebecca Parton is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best known for her work in country music. Dolly Parton has appeared in movies like 9 to 5, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Steel Magnolias and Straight Talk...
  
   (born 1946)
• Stella Parton
  Stella Parton
  Stella Parton is an American Country Music singer and songwriter. She is a younger sister of country music icon Dolly Parton, and musician and businessman Randy Parton. Stella Parton became a mildly successful country singer in the 70s, and though having nowhere near the success of her elder...
  
   (born 1949)
• Johnny Paycheck
  Johnny Paycheck
  Johnny Paycheck was the legal name of Donald Eugene Lytle , a country music singer and Grand Ole Opry member most famous for recording the David Allan Coe song "Take This Job and Shove It"...
  
   (1941-2003)
• Minnie Pearl
  Minnie Pearl
  Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon , known professionally as Minnie Pearl, was an American country comedienne who appeared at the Grand Ole Opry for more than 50 years and on the television show Hee Haw from 1969 to 1991.-Early life:Sarah Colley was born in Centerville, in Hickman County, Tennessee,...
  
   (1912-1996)
• Perfect Stranger
  Perfect Stranger (band)
  -Track listing:#"Remember the Ride" – 3:18#"It's Up to You" – 2:36#"One More Repossession" – 2:30#"You Have the Right to Remain Silent" – 3:28...
  
  
• Carl Perkins
  Carl Perkins
  Carl Lee Perkins was an American rockabilly musician who recorded most notably at Sun Records Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, beginning during 1954...
  
   (1932-1998)
• Keith Perry
  Keith Perry
  Keith Perry is an American country music and Christian music artist. He has recorded three albums for the Curb Records label.Perry began playing mandolin and fiddle at an early age; by age 14, he toured with country music artist Mel Street, and later became a member of the Revival Spirits, a gospel...
  
  
• Kellie Pickler
  Kellie Pickler
  Kellie Dawn Pickler is an American country music artist and television personality. She gained fame as a contestant on the fifth season of the Fox reality show American Idol, eventually finishing in sixth place. In 2006, she signed to 19 Recordings and BNA Records as a recording artist, releasing...
  
   (born 1986)
• Webb Pierce
  Webb Pierce
  Webb Michael Pierce was one of the most popular American honky tonk vocalists of the 1950s, charting more number one hits than any other country artist during the decade. His biggest hit was "In The Jailhouse Now," which charted for 37 weeks in 1955, 21 of them at number one...
  
   (1921-1991)
• Pinmonkey
  Pinmonkey
  Pinmonkey is an American country music group formed in 1998 by Michael Reynolds , brothers Michael and Chad Jeffers , and former Pure Prairie League member Rick Shell . Their first album, Speak No Evil, was released independently in 2002...
  
  
• Pirates of the Mississippi
  Pirates of the Mississippi
  Pirates of the Mississippi was an American country music group. It was founded in 1987 by Rich Alves , Bill McCorvey Jimmy Lowe , Pat Severs , and Dean Townson...
  
  
• Charlie Poole
  Charlie Poole
  Charlie Poole was an American old time banjo player and country musician and the leader of the North Carolina Ramblers, an American old-time string band that recorded many popular songs between 1925 to 1930.-Biography:...
  
   (1892-1931)
• Povertyneck Hillbilles, The
• Prairie Oyster
  Prairie Oyster
  Prairie Oyster is an award-winning Canadian country music group from Ontario. They were named Country Group or Duo of the year six times by both the Canadian Country Music Association and the Juno Awards. The band also won the Bud Country Fans' Choice Award from the CCMA in 1994...
  
  
• Colt Prather
  Colt Prather
  Colt Prather is an American country music singer-songwriter. Prather was discovered playing with the house band at a Nashville restaurant and signed to Epic Records. His third single for the label, "I Won't Go On and On," peaked at number 48 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in...
  
   (born 1975)
• Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....
  
   (1935-1977)
• Codie Prevost
  Codie Prevost
  Codie Prevost is a Canadian country music singer. Prevost has released one album, 2005's The Road Ahead, and one EP, 2008's Spin 6-Pak Vol. 1. In 2009, "Spin" was named Song and Single of the Year at the Saskatchewan Country Music Association Awards...
  
   (born 1984)
• Ray Price
  Ray Price (musician)
  Ray Price is an American country music singer, songwriter and guitarist. His wide-ranging baritone has often been praised as among the best male voices of country music...
  
   (born 1926)
• Charley Pride
  Charley Pride
  Charley Frank Pride is an American country music singer. His smooth baritone voice was featured on thirty-nine number-one hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. His greatest success came in the early- to mid-1970s, when he became the best-selling performer for RCA Records since Elvis...
  
   (born 1938)
• Jeanne Pruett
  Jeanne Pruett
  Jeanne Pruett is an American Country Music Singer and Grand Ole Opry star, best-known for her 1973 chart-topping Country hit, "Satin Sheets", that spent three weeks at No. 1....
  
   (born 1937)
• Pure Prairie League
  Pure Prairie League
  Pure Prairie League, sometimes abbreviated PPL, is an American country-rock band whose roots began between 1964 and 1969 in Waverly, Ohio with Craig Fuller, George Powell, Tom McGrail, Jim Caughlan and John David Call. In 1970 McGrail named the band after a 19th century temperance union mentioned...
  
  
• Pussycat (Dutch band)
  Pussycat (Dutch band)
  Pussycat was a Dutch country and pop music group from Brunssum, driven by the three Kowalczyk sisters: Tonny, Betty and Marianne. Other members of the band were Lou Willé , Theo Wetzels, Theo Coumans and John Theunissen.-Career:...
  
  

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• Eddie Rabbitt
  Eddie Rabbitt
  Edward Thomas "Eddie" Rabbitt was an American singer-songwriter and musician. His career began as a songwriter in the late 1960s, springboarding to a recording career after composing hits such as "Kentucky Rain" for Elvis Presley in 1970 and "Pure Love" for Ronnie Milsap in 1974...
  
   (1941-1998)
• Marvin Rainwater
  Marvin Rainwater
  Marvin Karlton Rainwater , better known as Marvin Rainwater, is an American country and rockabilly singer and songwriter who had several hits during the late 1950s, including "Gonna Find Me a Bluebird" and "Whole Lotta Woman"...
  
   (born 1925)
• Bonnie Raitt
  Bonnie Raitt
  Bonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter and a renowned slide guitar player. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country, but she is perhaps best known for her more commercially...
  
   (born 1949)
• Randy Rogers Band
  Randy Rogers Band
  The Randy Rogers Band is an American Texas Country group from the state of Texas. The band is composed of Randy Rogers , Geoffrey Hill , Jon Richardson , Brady Black , and Les Lawless . They have recorded four studio albums and two live albums, and have charted six singles on the Billboard Hot...
  
  
• Rankin Family, The
  The Rankin Family
  The Rankin Family is a Canadian musical family group from Mabou, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. The group has won many Canadian music awards, including 15 East Coast Music Awards, six Juno Awards, four SOCAN Awards, three Canadian Country Music Awards and two Big Country Music Awards.- Career...
  
  
• Rascal Flatts
  Rascal Flatts
  Rascal Flatts is an American country music band that originated in Columbus, Ohio, United States of America. Since its inception, Rascal Flatts has been composed of three members: Gary LeVox , Jay DeMarcus and Joe Don Rooney...
  
  
• Rattlesnake Annie
  Rattlesnake Annie
  Rattlesnake Annie is a country singer and songwriter under the stage name Rattlesnake Annie. She earned her nickname as a child from her respect of snakes. McGowan began recording music in 1974 and achieved success in Europe...
  
   (born 1941)
• Eddy Raven
  Eddy Raven
  Edward Garvin Futch is an American country music artist known professionally as Eddy Raven. Known for his Cajun-influenced country music, Raven has been a recording artist since 1962...
  
   (born 1944)
• Marty Raybon
  Marty Raybon
  Marty Raybon Marty Raybon Marty Raybon (born December 8, 1959 is an Award Winning American country music artist. He is known primarily for his role as the lead singer of the band Shenandoah, a role which he held from 1985 to 1996. He recorded his first solo album, Marty Raybon, in 1995 on Sparrow...
  
   (born 1959)
• Raybon Brothers
• Collin Raye
  Collin Raye
  Floyd Collin Wray Floyd Collin Wray Floyd Collin Wray (born August 22, 1959 or 1960,Although multiple online sources all indicate Raye's date of birth as 1959, Raye's MySpace lists his date of birth as 1960. Furthermore, the 2004 Deseret News article cited in this article indicates the singer as...
  
   (born 1959)
• Susan Raye
  Susan Raye
  Susan Raye is an American country music singer. She enjoyed great popularity during the early and mid 1970's and chalked up seven top 10 and nineteen top 40 country hits Susan Raye discography, most notably the song "L.A...
  
   (born 1944)
• Jerry Reed
  Jerry Reed
  Jerry Reed Hubbard , known professionally as Jerry Reed, was an American country music singer, innovative guitarist, songwriter, and actor who appeared in more than a dozen films...
  
   (1937-2008)
• Jim Reeves
  Jim Reeves
  James Travis Reeves , better known as Jim Reeves, was an American country and popular music singer-songwriter. With records charting from the 1950s to the 1980s, he became well-known for being a practitioner of the Nashville sound...
  
   (1923-1964)
• Julie Reeves
  Julie Reeves
  Julie Reeves is an American country music artist. She released one studio album for Virgin Records in 1999, and charted three singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including two minor Top 40 hits. Reeves was once married to country music parodist Cledus T...
  
   (born 1974)
• Ronna Reeves
  Ronna Reeves
  Ronna Renee Reeves is a female country music singer. Between 1990 and 1998, she released five studio albums, including three on Mercury Records; she has also charted five singles on the Hot Country Songs charts...
  
   (born 1966)
• Remingtons, The
  The Remingtons
  The Remingtons was an American country music group founded by Jimmy Griffin, Richard Mainegra, and Rick Yancey, all of whom played guitar and sang. All three members were previously members of soft rock groups: Griffin was previously a member of Bread, while Mainegra and Yancey had previously been...
  
  
• Bobby G. Rice
  Bobby G. Rice
  Robert Gene Rice is an American country music singer-songwriter, known professionally as Bobby G. Rice. Between 1970 and 1988, Rice released nine albums and charted thirty songs on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart...
  
   (born 1944)
• Charlie Rich
  Charlie Rich
  Charles Rich was an American country music singer and musician. A Grammy Award winner, his eclectic-style of music was often hard to classify in a single genre, playing in the rockabilly, jazz, blues, country, and gospel genres.In the latter part of his life, Rich acquired the nickname The Silver...
  
   (1932-1995)
• John Rich
  John Rich (musician)
  John Rich is an American country music singer-songwriter. From 1992 to 1998, he was a member of the country music band Lonestar, in which he played bass guitar and alternated with Richie McDonald as lead vocalist...
  
   (born 1974)
• Ricochet
  Ricochet (band)
  Ricochet is an American country music band from Oklahoma. The band was founded in 1993 by brothers Jeff Bryant and Junior Bryant , along with Heath Wright , Greg Cook , Teddy Carr , and Eddie Kilgallon ,After several years of...
  
  
• Jeannie C. Riley
  Jeannie C. Riley
  Jeannie C. Riley is an American country music and gospel singer. She is best known for her 1968 country and pop hit "Harper Valley PTA" , which missed becoming the Billboard Country and Pop number one hit at the same time...
  
   (born 1945)
• Leann Rimes
  LeAnn Rimes
  LeAnn Rimes is an American country/pop singer. She is known for her rich vocals and her rise to fame as an eight-year-old champion on the original Ed McMahon version of Star Search, followed by the release of the Patsy Cline-intended single "Blue" when Rimes was only age 13, resulting in her...
  
   (born 1982)
• Cowboy Slim Rinehart
  Cowboy Slim Rinehart
  Cowboy Slim Rinehart was born Nolan Alfred Rinehart on March 11, 1911, in Comanche County, Texas. He died October 28, 1948 in Michigan ....
  
   (1911-1948)
• Rio Grand
  Rio Grand
  Rio Grand is an American Texas Country group. Tommy Rennick , Danny Rivera , and Fred Stallcup . All three members are natives of the state of Texas. In addition, Tommy Rennick was previously a member of 37 South and the Allison Paige band...
  
  
• Tex Ritter
  Tex Ritter
  Woodward Maurice Ritter , better known as Tex Ritter, was an American country music singer and movie actor popular from the mid-1930s into the 1960s, and the patriarch of the Ritter family in acting...
  
   (1907-1973)
• River Road
  River Road (band)
  -Track listing:#"Wishful Thinking" – 3:15#"Somebody Will" – 2:40#"She Gets to Me" – 3:32#"Nickajack" – 2:51...
  
  
• Dennis Robbins
  Dennis Robbins
  Dennis Robbins is an American musician who first made himself known as a guitarist in the band The Rockets. After his departure from The Rockets, he began a career in country music, recording two major-label albums and several singles of his own, in addition to writing hit singles for Shenandoah...
  
  
• Marty Robbins
  Marty Robbins
  Martin David Robinson , known professionally as Marty Robbins, was an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist...
  
   (1925-1982)
• Julie Roberts
  Julie Roberts
  Julie Roberts is an American country music singer. Signed to Mercury Nashville in 2004, Roberts made her debut that year with the single "Break Down Here", a Top 20 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts and the first track from her self-titled debut album...
  
   (born 1979)
• Eck Robertson
  Eck Robertson
  Alexander "Eck" Robertson was an American fiddle player, mostly known for commercially recording the first country music songs in 1922 with Henry Gilliland.-Early life:...
  
   (1886-1975)
• Charlie Robison
  Charlie Robison
  Charles Fitzgerald "Charlie" Robison is an Texas Country singer/songwriter, who was raised in Bandera, Texas. His brother is singer/songwriter Bruce Robison...
  
   (born 1964)
• Carson Robison
  Carson Robison
  Carson Jay Robison was an American country music singer and songwriter. Although his impact is generally forgotten today, he played a major role in promoting country music in its early years through numerous recordings and radio appearances. He was also known as Charles Robison and sometimes...
  
   (1890-1957)
• Rocket Club
  Rocket Club
  Rocket Club is an American country music band composed of Chris Hawkey , Luke Kramer , Brian Kroening , Joel Sayles , Don Smithmier , and Billy Thommes...
  
  
• Jimmie Rodgers
  Jimmie Rodgers (country singer)
  James Charles Rodgers , known as Jimmie Rodgers, was an American country singer in the early 20th century known most widely for his rhythmic yodeling...
  
   (1897-1933)
• Johnny Rodriguez
  Johnny Rodriguez
  Johnny Rodriguez is an American country music singer. He was the first famous Latin American country music singer, infusing his music with Latin sounds, and even singing verses of songs in Spanish....
  
   (born 1951)
• Kenny Rogers
  Kenny Rogers
  Kenneth Donald "Kenny" Rogers is an American singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur...
  
   (born 1938)
• Randy Rogers Band
  Randy Rogers Band
  The Randy Rogers Band is an American Texas Country group from the state of Texas. The band is composed of Randy Rogers , Geoffrey Hill , Jon Richardson , Brady Black , and Les Lawless . They have recorded four studio albums and two live albums, and have charted six singles on the Billboard Hot...
  
  
• Roy Rogers
  Roy Rogers
  Roy Rogers, born Leonard Franklin Slye , was an American singer and cowboy actor, one of the most heavily marketed and merchandised stars of his era, as well as being the namesake of the Roy Rogers Restaurants franchised chain...
  
   (1911-1998)
• Ronnie Dunn
  Ronnie Dunn
  Ronnie Gene Dunn is an American country music singer-songwriter, known for being one half of the duo Brooks & Dunn. In 2011, Dunn began working as a solo artist following the breakup of Brooks & Dunn...
  
  
• Linda Ronstadt
  Linda Ronstadt
  Linda Ronstadt is an American popular music recording artist. She has earned eleven Grammy Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, an ALMA Award, numerous United States and internationally certified gold, platinum and multiplatinum albums, in addition to Tony Award and Golden...
  
   (born 1946)
• Darius Rucker
  Darius Rucker
  Darius Rucker is an American musician. He first gained fame as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Hootie & the Blowfish, which he founded in 1986 at the University of South Carolina along with Mark Bryan, Jim "Soni" Sonefeld and Dean Felber...
  
   (born 1966)
• Run C&W
  Run C&W
  Run C&W was an American country music group composed of lead vocalist Russell Smith, formerly of the Amazing Rhythm Aces; banjoist Bernie Leadon, formerly of the Eagles and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band; along with Nashville songwriters Jim Photoglo and Vince Melamed, both of whom played various...
  
  
• Travis Rush
  Travis Rush
  Travis Benjamin Rush is a country music singer from Oregon.-Biography:Travis Rush was born in Orange, California, where he lived for 9 months and then moved to Gold Beach, Oregon. By the age of 10, Rush was singing in contests and playing the piano for local fans in his home town...
  
   (born 1971)
• Tim Rushlow
  Tim Rushlow
  Timothy Ray "Tim" Rushlow is an American country music artist. Between 1991 and 1997, Rushlow was co-lead vocalist of the country music band Little Texas, which recorded four albums and a Greatest Hits package, in addition to charting more than fifteen singles on the Billboard country singles...
  
  
• Rushlow
  Rushlow
  Rushlow was an American country music band founded in 2003 by Tim Rushlow, who was originally the lead vocalist of the country music band Little Texas until 1997, when he left for a solo career...
  
  
• Rushlow Harris
• Tim Ryan
  Tim Ryan (country musician)
  Tim Ryan Rouillier is an American country music artist, known professionally as Tim Ryan. Between 1990 and 1997, Ryan released four major-label studio albums. He also charted six singles on Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart...
  
   (born 1964)
• John Wesley Ryles
  John Wesley Ryles
  John Wesley Ryles is an American country music artist. He made his debut in 1968 with the single "Kay", a Top Ten hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles charts, and the title track to his debut album for Columbia Records.Ryles later recorded one album, Reconsider Me, for the Plantation label,...
  
   (born 1950)

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• Victor Sanz
  Victor Sanz
  Victor Sanz is an American country music artist. He has released two studio albums, both on independent labels: Destination Unknown in 2000 on Gramac, and Hey Country in 2005 on his own West Coast Independent Records. These albums have produced three chart singles on the Billboard country charts...
  
   (born 1973)
• Sawyer Brown
  Sawyer Brown
  Sawyer Brown is an American country music band founded in 1981 in Apopka, Florida, by five members of country pop singer Don King's road band: Bobby Randall and Jim Scholten , both from Midland, Michigan; Joe Smyth , Gregg "Hobie" Hubbard , and Mark Miller...
  
  
• Bobbejaan Schoepen
  Bobbejaan Schoepen
  Bobbejaan Schoepen is a pseudonym of Modest Schoepen was a Flemish pioneer in Belgian pop music, vaudeville, and European country music...
  
   (born 1925)
• Ray Scott
  Ray Scott (singer)
  Carlton Ray Scott, Jr. is an American country music artist. He started his first band at age 19, and later moved to Atlanta, Georgia, to attend the Music Business Institute. After receiving an associate's degree, he moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, where he started another band before moving...
  
  
• Brady Seals
  Brady Seals
  Brady Seals is an American country music artist. He is the cousin of Jim Seals and Dan Seals and Johnny Duncan, the nephew of Troy Seals, and the husband of former BNA Records recording artist Lisa Stewart...
  
   (born 1969)
• Dan Seals
  Dan Seals
  Danny Wayland "Dan" Seals was an American musician. The younger brother of Seals & Crofts member Jim Seals, he first gained fame as the "England Dan" half of the soft rock duo England Dan and John Ford Coley, which charted nine pop and adult contemporary singles between 1976 and 1980, including...
  
   (1950-2009)
• Troy Seals
  Troy Seals
  Troy Seals is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist.He is a member of the prominent Seals family of musicians that includes, Jim Seals and Dan Seals and Brady Seals...
  
   (born 1938)
• Dawn Sears
  Dawn Sears
  Dawn Sears is an American country music artist. In addition to her work as a backing vocalist in Vince Gill's band, Dawn has recorded three solo studio albums, of which two were released on major labels...
  
  
• Jeannie Seely
  Jeannie Seely
  Jeannie Seely is an American country music singer and Grand Ole Opry star. She is best-known for her 1966 Grammy award-winning Country hit, "Don't Touch Me", which peaked at No...
  
   (born 1940)
• Jason Sellers
  Jason Sellers
  Jason Sellers is an American country music artist. After several years of touring the United States in his family's band, Sellers joined the road band of Ricky Skaggs. By 1997, he was signed to a recording contract with BNA Records, for whom he recorded two studio albums: 1997's I'm Your Man and...
  
   (born 1971)
• Lisa Shaffer
  Lisa Shaffer
  Lisa Shaffer is an American country music singer. Formerly signed to Lyric Street Records, she released her debut single, "Just One," in May 2007. The song peaked at number 55 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. She is an alumna of Northern Kentucky University.-Singles:-References:...
  
  
• Billy Joe Shaver
  Billy Joe Shaver
  Billy Joe Shaver is a Texas country music singer and songwriter. Shaver's 1973 album Old Five and Dimers Like Me is a classic in the outlaw country genre.-Biography:...
  
   (born 1930)
• Kevin Sharp (born 1970)
• Rosemary Sharp
  Rosemary Sharp
  Rosemary Sharp is an American country music singer. Between 1987 and 1988, Sharp released four singles on Canyon Creek Records. While she never reached the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart, three of her songs reached the Top 20 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in...
  
  
• Victoria Shaw
  Victoria Shaw (singer)
  Victoria Lynn Shaw is an American country music artist. She has recorded four studio albums, and has charted five singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts...
  
   (born 1962)
• SHeDAISY
  SHeDAISY
  SHeDAISY is an American country music group founded in the late 1980s by sisters Kristyn Robyn Osborn , Kelsi Marie Osborn , and Kassidy Lorraine Osborn from Magna, Utah...
  
  
• Blake Shelton
  Blake Shelton
  Blake Tollison Shelton is an American country music artist. In 2001, he made his debut with the single "Austin". Released as the lead-off single from his self-titled debut album, "Austin" went on to spend five weeks at Number One on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts...
  
   (born 1976)
• Shenandoah
  Shenandoah (band)
  Shenandoah is an American country music group founded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama in 1984 by Marty Raybon , Ralph Ezell , Stan Thorn , Jim Seales , and Mike McGuire...
  
  
• Jean Shepard
  Jean Shepard
  Ollie Imogene Shepard , better known as Jean Shepard, is an American honky tonk singer-songwriter who was a pioneer for women in country music. Shepard released a total of 73 singles to the Hot Country Songs chart, one of which reached the #1 spot...
  
   (born 1933)
• Ashton Shepherd
  Ashton Shepherd
  Ashton Delilah Shepherd is an American country music singer-songwriter. She was first signed to Universal Music Group Nashville's MCA Nashville division in April 2007. Her 2008 debut album Sounds So Good produced two top 40 hits on the Hot Country Songs charts: "Takin' Off This Pain" and the title...
  
   (born 1986)
• The Shooters
  The Shooters
  The Shooters was a five-piece country music band founded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. It consisted of Walt Aldridge Gary Baker , Barry Billings , Chalmers Davis , and Michael Dillon . They charted several times on the Billboard country charts between 1986 and 1989...
  
  
• The Shoppe
  The Shoppe
  The Shoppe was an American country music group from Dallas, Texas, composed of Mark Cathey , Kevin Bailey , Roger Ferguson , Clarke Wilcox , Mike Caldwell , Jack Wilcox , and Lou Chavez ....
  
  
• Ryan Shupe & The RubberBand
  Ryan Shupe & The RubberBand
  Ryan Shupe & the RubberBand is an American bluegrass group founded in the mid-1990s in Ogden, UT. The band's lineup comprises Ryan Shupe , Roger Archibald , Ryan Tilby , Craig Miner , and Nate Smeding...
  
  
• Jessica Simpson
  Jessica Simpson
  Jessica Ann Simpson is an American recording artist, actress, television personality, and fashion designer whose rise to fame began in 1999. Since that time, Simpson has achieved many recording milestones, starred in several television shows, movies, and commercials, launched a line of hair and...
  
   (born 1980)
• Margie Singleton
  Margie Singleton
  Margaret Louis Ebey , known professionally as Margie Singleton, is an American country music singer and songwriter. In the 1960s, she was a popular duet and solo recording artist, working with country stars George Jones and Faron Young. Singleton had her biggest hit with Young called "Keeping Up...
  
   (born 1935)
• Sixwire
  Sixwire
  Sixwire is an American country music group from Nashville, Tennessee. The group is composed of Andy Childs , Robb Houston , John Howard , Steve Mandile , and Chuck Tilley . The band's name references the six strings on a guitar. Sixwire recorded one album for Warner Bros...
  
  
• Ricky Skaggs
  Ricky Skaggs
  Rickie Lee "Ricky" Skaggs is a country and bluegrass singer, musician, producer, and composer. He primarily plays mandolin; however, he also plays fiddle, guitar, and banjo.-Early career:...
  
   (born 1954)
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• The Sky Kings
  The Sky Kings
  The Sky Kings was an American country music supergroup formed in 1991 as Four Wheel Drive. The band consisted of John Cowan, Bill Lloyd, Patrick Simmons and Rusty Young. They were signed to a recording deal with RCA Nashville and completed an album which for the label was never released.Warner...
  
  
• Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith (born 1921)
• Carl Smith
  Carl Smith (country musician)
  Carl Milton Smith was an American country music singer. Known as "Mister Country," Smith was the husband of June Carter and Goldie Hill, the drinking companion of Johnny Cash, and the father of Carlene Carter...
  
   (1927-2010)
• Connie Smith
  Connie Smith
  Connie Smith is an American country music artist. She began her career in 1963 after winning a local talent contest near Columbus, Ohio, which attracted the attention of country songwriter Bill Anderson...
  
   (born 1941)
• Russell Smith
  Russell Smith (singer)
  Russell Smith is an American country music singer-songwriter. Formerly the lead singer of the Amazing Rhythm Aces, Smith launched a solo country music career in 1984. He was signed by Epic Records in 1988, who released his debut album, This Little Town, the following year...
  
   (born 1949)
• Hank Snow
  Hank Snow
  Clarence Eugene "Hank" Snow was a Canadian-American country music artist. He charted more than 70 singles on the Billboard country charts from 1950 until 1980...
  
   (1914-1999)
• Soggy Bottom Boys
• Sons of the Desert
  Sons of the Desert (band)
  Sons of the Desert was an American country music band founded in 1989 in Waco, Texas by brothers Drew Womack and Tim Womack , along with Scott Saunders , Doug Virden and Brian Westrum...
  
  
• Sons of the Pioneers
  Sons of the Pioneers
  The Sons of the Pioneers are one of America's earliest Western singing groups whose classic recordings set a new standard for performers of Western music. Known for the high quality of their vocal performances, musicianship, and songwriting, they produced finely-crafted and innovative recordings...
  
  
• South 65
  South 65
  -Track listing:#"Baby's Got My Number" – 3:00#"Climbing Up Mt. Everest" – 3:03#"I'm There" – 4:12#"Uncle Hickory's General Store" -Track listing:#"Baby's Got My Number" (Roger Cook, Anthony L. Smith) – 3:00#"Climbing Up Mt. Everest" (Tommy Lee James, Robin Lerner) – 3:03#"I'm There" (Kelly...
  
  
• Bobby Sowell
  Bobby Sowell
  Bobby Sowell is an American musician, pianist and composer. He spent much of his early years playing rockabilly piano in the late 1950s, playing organ in rock and roll bands in the 1960s and playing piano in numerous country music bands in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s...
  
   (born 1947)
• Roger Springer
  Roger Springer
  Roger Springer is an American country music artist. Springer's only single as a solo artist, "The Right One Left," was released in 1992 on MCA Nashville and peaked at #69 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.In 1998, Springer formed the country music trio Springer! with Shara...
  
   (born 1962)
• Joe Stampley
  Joe Stampley
  Joe Stampley is an American country music singer.-Biography:He was born to R.C. Stampley, Jr. , and Mary E. Stampley...
  
   (born 1943)
• Ralph Stanley
  Ralph Stanley
  Ralph Stanley , also known as Dr. Ralph Stanley, is an American bluegrass artist, known for his distinctive singing and banjo playing.-Biography:...
  
   (born 1927)
• Lucille Starr
  Lucille Starr
  Lucille Starr is a Franco-Manitoban / British Columbian singer, songwriter, and yodeler best known for her 1964 hit single, "Quand Le Soleil Dit Bonjour Aux Montagnes" .-Biography:...
  
   (born 1938)
• Statler Brothers
  Statler Brothers
  The Statler Brothers were an American country music vocal group founded in 1955 in Staunton, Virginia.Originally performing gospel music at local churches, the group billed themselves as The Four Star Quartet, and later The Kingsmen...
  
  
• Stealing Angels
  Stealing Angels
  Stealing Angels is an American country group composed of Caroline Cutbirth, Tayla Lynn, and Jennifer Wayne. Their debut single, "He Better Be Dead," was released to radio on July 12, 2010, and debuted at number 59 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart...
  
  
• Keith Stegall
  Keith Stegall
  Robert Keith Stegall is an American country music recording artist and record producer. Active since 1980, Stegall has recorded two-major label studio albums: 1985's Keith Stegall and 1996's Passages...
  
   (born 1955)
• Gary Stewart
  Gary Stewart (singer)
  Gary Stewart was a country musician and songwriter known for his distinctive vibrato voice and his southern rock influenced, outlaw country sound...
  
   (1945-2003)
• Larry Stewart
  Larry Stewart (singer)
  Larry Stewart is an American country music singer, best known for his role as lead singer of the country pop band Restless Heart...
  
   (born 1959)
• Lisa Stewart
  Lisa Stewart
  -Track listing:#"Somebody's in Love" – 3:31#"Drive Time" – 3:35#"Don't Touch Me" – 3:02#"Under the Light of the Texaco" – 3:42...
  
   (born 1968)
• Wynn Stewart
  Wynn Stewart
  Winford Lindsey Stewart , better known as Wynn Stewart, was an American country music performer. He was one of the progenitors of the Bakersfield sound...
  
   (1934-1985)
• Shane Stockton
  Shane Stockton
  -Track listing:All songs written by Shane Stockton; "I Didn't Know" co-written by Dave Stephenson and Mark Wright.#"Somewhere in the Ashes" - 3:52#"What If I'm Right" - 3:04#"I Didn't Know" - 3:26#"Don't Let the Fool Fool You" - 2:57#"Gonna Have to Fall" - 3:10...
  
   (born 1974)
• The Stonemans
• Sara Storer
  Sara Storer
  Sara Storer is an Australian country music singer. She won seven Golden Guitars in the Tamworth Country Music Festival 2004 awards in Tamworth, the most awards ever won in one year in the 32-year history of the awards. As of the 2010 Golden Guitar awards, Storer has won a total of eleven...
  
  
• George Strait
  George Strait
  George Harvey Strait is an American country music singer, actor, and music producer. Strait is referred to as the "King of Country," and critics call Strait a living legend. He is known for his unique style of western swing music, bar-room ballads, honky-tonk style, and fresh yet traditional...
  
   (born 1952)
• Doug Stone (born 1956)
• Stringbean (1915-1973)
• Marty Stuart
  Marty Stuart
  John Martin "Marty" Stuart is an American country music singer-songwriter, known for both his traditional style, and eclectic merging of rockabilly, honky tonk, and traditional country music...
  
   (born 1958)
• Nat Stuckey
  Nat Stuckey
  Nathan Stuckey was an American country singer. He recorded for various labels between 1966 and 1978, charting in the top 10 of Hot Country Songs with "Sweet Thang", "Plastic Saddle", "Sweet Thang and Cisco" and "Take Time to Love Her"-Biography:Raised in Atlanta, Texas, in Cass County, Nat Stuckey...
  
   (1934-1988)
• Sugarland
• Trent Summar & the New Row Mob
  Trent Summar & The New Row Mob
  Trent Summar & The New Row Mob is an American country music group from the state of Tennessee. Its members comprise Trent Summar , Ken McMahan , Dan Baird , Dave Kennedy , and Michael "Supe" Granda...
  
  
• Doug Supernaw
  Doug Supernaw
  Douglas Anderson "Doug" Supernaw is an American country music artist. After several years performing as a local musician throughout the state of Texas, he signed with BNA Records in 1993, releasing his debut album that year.Supernaw has released four studio albums: Red and Rio Grande , Deep...
  
  
• Sweethearts of the Rodeo
  Sweethearts of the Rodeo
  Sweethearts of the Rodeo is an American country music duo composed of sisters Janis Oliver and Kristine Oliver . The duo recorded for Columbia Records between 1986 and 1991, releasing four albums and twelve singles for the label. In the 1990s, they also recorded two albums for Sugar Hill Records...
  
  
• Taylor Swift
  Taylor Swift
  Taylor Alison Swift is an American country pop singer-songwriter, musician and actress.In 2006, she released her debut single "Tim McGraw", then her self-titled debut album, which was subsequently certified multi-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America...
  
   (born 1989)
• Sunny Sweeney
  Sunny Sweeney
  Sunny Michaela Sweeney is an American country music artist. She is signed to the Republic Nashville label. Her debut album, Heartbreaker's Hall of Fame, was issued in 2007. Although it produced three singles in "If I Could", "Ten Years Pass" and "East Texas Pines", none of these singles have charted...
  
  
• Sylvia
  Sylvia (singer)
  Sylvia Jane Kirby is an American country music and country pop singer and songwriter. More commonly known by the singular name Sylvia, she enjoyed crossover music success with the song "Nobody" in 1982....
  
   (born 1956)

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• Les Taylor
  Les Taylor (singer)
  Les Taylor is an American country music artist. Taylor has released two studio albums on Epic Records. His highest charting single, "I Gotta Mind to Go Crazy," peaked at #44 in 1991....
  
   (born 1948)
• Ty Taylor
  Ty Taylor (author)
  Ty Taylor is an American, Auctioneer, Author, Cowboy, and Musician.-Music Career:Ty Taylor is a Country singer, Songwriter and Record producer who has performed on the Grand Ole Opry and Austin City Limits while working for Loretta Lynn and Doug Stone.Taylor started singing and playing guitar...
  
  
• Karen Taylor-Good
  Karen Taylor-Good
  Karen Taylor-Good is an American singer-songwriter. Taylor-Good and her then-husband, Bill Taylor, started the Mesa Records label in 1982. Her first single, "Diamond in the Rough," reached the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart early that year...
  
  
• Tebey
  Tebey
  Tebey is a Canadian country music singer and multi-genre songwriter. His only chart hit to date is 2003's "We Shook Hands ", a #47 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts and a Top 5 single on the Canadian country music charts...
  
   (born ca. 1983)
• Chalee Tennison
  Chalee Tennison
  Chalee Tennison is an American country music artist from the state of Texas. She has released three major-label studio albums in addition to charting six singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts...
  
   (born 1969)
• Hank Thompson
  Hank Thompson (music)
  Henry William Thompson , known professionally as Hank Thompson, was an American country music entertainer whose career spanned seven decades...
  
   (1925-2007)
• Cyndi Thomson
  Cyndi Thomson
  Cyndi Thomson is an American country music artist. Thomson wrote songs with songwriter Tommy Lee James and in 2000, she signed with Capitol Records Nashville as a recording artist...
  
   (born 1976)
• Chris Thile
  Chris Thile
  Christopher Scott Thile is an American musician, best known as the mandolinist and a singer for the progressive acoustic trio Nickel Creek. His current band is Punch Brothers whose most recent album is Antifogmatic...
  
   (born 1981)
• The Thompson Brothers Band
  The Thompson Brothers Band
  The Thompson Brothers Band was an American country music group formed in 1996. The band consisted of Andy Thompson , Matt Thompson and Mike Whitty...
  
  
• Neil Thrasher
  Neil Thrasher
  Joe Neil Thrasher, Jr. is an American country music singer and songwriter. Between 1995 and 1997, he and Kelly Shiver comprised the duo Thrasher Shiver, which recorded a studio album for Asylum Records in 1996 and charted two singles on the Billboard country charts in early 1997...
  
   (born 1963)
• Thrasher Shiver
  Thrasher Shiver
  Thrasher Shiver was an American country music duo composed of Neil Thrasher and Kelly Shiver, both of whom sang lead vocals and played acoustic guitar. In late 1996, the duo released a self-titled album for Asylum Records, and charted two singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts...
  
  
• Marsha Thornton
  Marsha Thornton
  Marsha Thornton is a female country music singer. Between 1990 and 2003, she released three studio albums, with her first two released on MCA Records; she has also issued four singles on the Hot Country Songs charts...
  
   (born 1964)
• Mel Tillis
  Mel Tillis
  Lonnie Melvin Tillis , known professionally as Mel Tillis, is an American country music singer. Although he recorded songs since the late 1950s, his biggest success occurred in the 1970s, with a long list of Top 10 hits....
  
   (born 1932)
• Pam Tillis
  Pam Tillis
  Pamela Yvonne "Pam" Tillis is an American country music singer-songwriter and actress. She is the daughter of country music singer Mel Tillis....
  
   (born 1957)
• Johnny Tillotson
  Johnny Tillotson
  Johnny Tillotson is an American singer and songwriter. He enjoyed his greatest success in the early 1960s, when he scored 9 top-ten hits on the pop, country and adult contemporary billboard charts including "Poetry In Motion" and the self-penned "It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin'"...
  
   (born 1939)
• Aaron Tippin
  Aaron Tippin
  Aaron Dupree Tippin is an American country music artist and record producer. Initially a songwriter for Acuff-Rose Music, he gained a recording contract with RCA Records in 1990...
  
   (born 1958)
• Tompall & the Glaser Brothers
  Tompall & the Glaser Brothers
  Tompall & The Glaser Brothers was an American country music group composed of three brothers: Chuck, Jim, and Tompall Glaser, all of whom also had success in the 1970s as solo artists. Between 1960 and 1975, the trio recorded ten studio albums, and charted nine singles on the Billboard Hot Country...
  
  
• Trent Tomlinson
  Trent Tomlinson
  Trent Tomlinson is an American country music artist. After several failed attempts at finding a record deal, Tomlinson was signed to Lyric Street Records in 2005, with his debut album Country Is My Rock, released in early 2006. This album produced three Top 40 singles on the U.S...
  
   (born 1976)
• The Tractors
  The Tractors
  The Tractors is an American country rock band composed of a loosely associated group of musicians, headed by guitarist Steve Ripley. Under the band's original lineup, The Tractors was signed to Arista Records in 1994, releasing their self-titled debut album that year; the album went on to become...
  
  
• Trader-Price
  Trader-Price
  Trader-Price is an American country music group from Burns Flat, Oklahoma composed of brothers Dan, Chris and Erick Trader-Price and Don Bell. In 1989, Trader-Price charted two singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. Two of their singles also charted on the RPM Country Tracks...
  
  
• Trailer Choir
  Trailer Choir
  Trailer Choir is an American country music duo composed of vocalists Vinny Hickerson and Marc Fortney, known by their respective stage names Big Vinny and Butter. The group began as trio with Crystal Hoyt and was signed to Show Dog Nashville, a label owned by Toby Keith, in 2006...
  
  
• Merle Travis
  Merle Travis
  Merle Robert Travis was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and musician born in Rosewood, Kentucky. His lyrics often discussed the life and exploitation of coal miners. Among his many well-known songs are "Sixteen Tons", "Re-Enlistment Blues" and "Dark as a Dungeon"...
  
   (1917-1983)
• Randy Travis
  Randy Travis
  Randy Travis is an American country music singer and actor. Since 1985, he has recorded 20 studio albums and charted more than 30 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, 22 of which were number one hits...
  
   (born 1959)
• Rick Trevino
  Rick Trevino
  Ricardo Treviño, Jr. , known professionally as Rick Trevino, is a Mexican American country music artist. Signed to Columbia Records in 1993, Trevino began his career that year with the release of his debut single, "Just Enough Rope", the first mainstream country music single to feature separate...
  
   (born 1971)
• Trick Pony
  Trick Pony
  Trick Pony was an American country music group. It was formed in 1996 by Keith Burns , Ira Dean , and Heidi Newfield . The group recorded three studio albums: Trick Pony, On a Mission and R.I.D.E., released in 2001, 2002 and 2005, respectively...
  
  
• Travis Tritt
  Travis Tritt
  James Travis Tritt is an American country music singer from Marietta, Georgia. He signed to Warner Bros. Records in 1989, releasing seven studio albums and a greatest hits package for the label between then and 1999. In the 2000s, he released two albums on Columbia Records and one for the defunct...
  
   (born 1963)
• Ernest Tubb
  Ernest Tubb
  Ernest Dale Tubb , nicknamed the Texas Troubadour, was an American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest career hit song, "Walking the Floor Over You" , marked the rise of the honky tonk style of music...
  
   (1914-1984)
• Tanya Tucker
  Tanya Tucker
  Tanya Denise Tucker is a female American country music artist who had her first hit, "Delta Dawn", in 1972 at the age of 13...
  
   (born 1958)
• Dean Tuftin
  Dean Tuftin
  Dean Tuftin is a Canadian country music singer. His debut album was released in 2003, producing the singles "Talk Is Cheap," "I'm Not So Little Anymore," "You Can't" and "In Her Eyes." His 2004 single "Wide Open Highway" reached the Top 10 on the Radio & Records Canadian country singles chart and...
  
   (born 1970)
• Josh Turner
  Josh Turner
  Joshua Otis "Josh" Turner is a country music singer and actor signed to MCA Nashville Records in 2003, Turner has released four studio albums for the label. The first of these was 2003's Long Black Train, whose title track was his breakthrough single release...
  
   (born 1977)
• Lane Turner
  Lane Turner
  Michael Lane Turner is an American singer-songwriter. Signed to Warner Bros. Records since 2004, he released two singles for the label, including "Always Wanting More ", which reached #56 on the Hot Country Songs charts in 2004...
  
   (born 1967)
• Mary Lou Turner
  Mary Lou Turner
  Mary Lou Turner is an American country music artist. Between 1976 and 1977, she recorded two duet albums with Bill Anderson, and charted four duets with him. One of their duets, "Sometimes", reached #1 in 1976...
  
   (born 1947)
• Turner Nichols
  Turner Nichols
  -Track listing:All tracks co-written by Zack Turner and Tim Nichols; other co-writers in parentheses.#"Moonlight Drive-In" – 3:19#"Come Saturday Night" – 2:59#"She Loves to Hear Me Rock" – 2:39#"Stop Right There" – 3:22...
  
  
• Shania Twain
  Shania Twain
  Shania Twain, OC is a Canadian country pop singer-songwriter. Her album The Woman in Me , brought her fame and her 1997 album Come On Over, became the best-selling album of all time by a female musician in any genre, and the best-selling country album of all time. It has sold over 40 million...
  
   (born 1965)
• Jeff Tweedy
  Jeff Tweedy
  Jeffrey Scot "Jeff" Tweedy is an American songwriter, musician and leader of the band Wilco. Tweedy joined rockabilly band The Plebes with high school friend Jay Farrar in the early 1980s, but Tweedy's musical interests caused one of Farrar's brothers to quit...
  
   (born 1967)
• Twister Alley
  Twister Alley
  -Track listing:#"Let It Be Love" - 4:06#"Pretty Thing" - 4:02#"Nothing in Common But Love" - 3:10#"Dance" - 3:19...
  
  
• Conway Twitty
  Conway Twitty
  Conway Twitty , born Harold Lloyd Jenkins, was an American country music artist. He also had success in early rock and roll, R&B, and pop music. He held the record for the most number one singles of any act with 55 No. 1 Billboard country hits until George Strait broke the record in 2006...
  
   (1933-1993)
• Kris Tyler
  Kris Tyler
  Kris Tyler is an American country music artist. Tyler has released one studio album; she also charted two singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. Her highest charting single, "What a Woman Knows," peaked at #45 in 1997.-Albums:-Singles:-Music videos:-External links:*[ allmusic ]...
  
  
• Ryan Tyler
  Ryan Tyler
  Ryan Tyler is an American country music artist. Signed to the Arista Nashville label, she made her debut with the single "Run, Run, Run" on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts. The song was followed by "The Last Thing She Said" in early 2004...
  
   (born 1973)

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• Union Station
• Carrie Underwood
  Carrie Underwood
  Carrie Marie Underwood is an American country singer-songwriter and actress who rose to fame as the winner of the fourth season of American Idol, in 2005...
  
   (born 1983)
• Keith Urban
  Keith Urban
  Keith Lionel Urban is a New Zealand-born Australian, country music singer, songwriter and guitarist whose commercial success has been mainly in the United States and Australia. Urban was born in New Zealand and began his career in Australia at an early age...
  
   (born 1967)

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• Leroy Van Dyke
  Leroy Van Dyke
  Leroy Frank Van Dyke is an American country music singer best known for his hits, "The Auctioneer" and "Walk On By" .-Biography:...
  
   (born 1929)
• Ricky Van Shelton
  Ricky Van Shelton
  Ricky Van Shelton is a currently retired American country music artist. Active between 1986 and 2006, he has charted more than twenty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts...
  
   (born 1952)
• Townes Van Zandt
  Townes Van Zandt
  John Townes Van Zandt , best known as Townes Van Zandt, was an American Texas Country-folk music singer-songwriter, performer, and poet...
  
   (1944-1997)
• Van Zant
  Van Zant
  Van Zant is an American musical duo composed of brothers Donnie Van Zant and Johnny Van Zant. Both are brothers of the late Ronnie Van Zant, former lead singer for the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd...
  
  
• Phil Vassar
  Phil Vassar
  Phil Vassar is an American country music artist. Vassar made his debut on the country music scene in the late 1990s, co-writing singles for several country artists, including Tim McGraw , Jo Dee Messina , Collin Raye , and Alan Jackson Phil Vassar (born May 28, 1964 in Lynchburg, Virginia) is an...
  
   (born 1964)
• Ray Vega
  Ray Vega (singer)
  Ray Vega is an American country and adult contemporary artist.In the 1980s, Vega performed with his brother, Robert, as The Vega Brothers...
  
   (born 1961)
• Rhonda Vincent
  Rhonda Vincent
  Rhonda Lea Vincent is a bluegrass singer, songwriter, mandolin player, guitarist, and fiddle player.Her musical career started as a child in her family's band, The Sally Mountain Show, and has spanned almost four decades...
  
   (born 1962)

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• Porter Wagoner
  Porter Wagoner
  Porter Wayne Wagoner was a popular American country music singer known for his flashy Nudie and Manuel suits and blond pompadour. He introduced the young Dolly Parton near the beginning of her career on his long-running television show, and they were a well-known duet throughout the late 1960s and...
  
   (1927-2007)
• Maci Wainwright
  Maci Wainwright
  Maci Nicole Wainwright is an American pop/rock singer-songwriter from Edmond, Oklahoma. She has opened for several country musicians, including Sammy Kershaw, Lorrie Morgan, Highway 101, Wade Hayes, Jim Ed Brown, Helen Cornelius, and Gene Watson. She has played at the Rodeo Opry...
  
   (born 1990)
• Jerry Jeff Walker
  Jerry Jeff Walker
  Jerry Jeff Walker is an American country music singer and songwriter. He is probably most famous for writing the song "Mr. Bojangles.-Biography:...
  
   (born 1942)
• Billy Walker
  Billy Walker (musician)
  William Marvin Walker , better known as Billy Walker, was an American country music singer and guitarist best-known for his 1962 hit, " Charlie's Shoes"...
  
   (1929-2006)
• Cindy Walker
  Cindy Walker
  Cindy Walker was a prolific American songwriter, as well as a country music singer and dancer. As a songwriter Walker was responsible for a large number of popular and enduring songs recorded by many different artists. She adopted a craftsman-like approach to her songwriting, often tailoring...
  
   (1918-2006)
• Clay Walker
  Clay Walker
  Ernest Clayton "Clay" Walker Jr. is an American country music artist. He made his debut in 1993 with the single "What's It to You," which reached Number One on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts, as did its follow-up, 1994's "Live Until I Die." Both singles were included on...
  
   (born 1969)
• Mike Walker
  Mike Walker (singer)
  -Track listing:#"Honey Do" – 3:11#"Stones in the Road" – 4:32#"This Is That" – 4:01#"Who's Your Daddy?" -Track listing:#"Honey Do" (Jeffrey Steele, Al Anderson, Kent Blazy) – 3:11#"Stones in the Road" (James House, Wally Wilson) – 4:32#"This Is That" (Anderson, Tom Shapiro) – 4:01#"Who's Your...
  
  
• Don Walser
  Don Walser
  Donald Ray Walser was an American country music singer. He was known as a unique, award-winning yodeling "Texas country music legend."- Music career :...
  
   (1934-2006)
• Jacky Ward
  Jacky Ward
  Jacky Ward is an American country music artist. Between 1972 and 1982, he recorded four albums for Mercury Records, and charted more than fifteen singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles Jacky Ward (born November 18, 1946 in Groveton, Texas) is an American country music artist. Between 1972...
  
   (born 1946)
• Steve Wariner
  Steve Wariner
  Steven Noel "Steve" Wariner is an American country music singer, songwriter and guitarist. He has released eighteen studio albums, including six on MCA Records, and three each on RCA Records, Arista Records and Capitol Records...
  
   (born 1954)
• Taylor Ware
  Taylor Ware
  Taylor Marie Ware is an American singer and yodeler from Franklin, Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville.Before Ware knew how to yodel, she performed at a county fair at age four. Her talent was singing and playing a violin. When she was six she decided to sing to seniors, so she started an...
  
   (born 1994)
• The Warren Brothers
• Sara Watkins
  Sara Watkins
  Sara Ullrika Watkins is an American singer-songwriter and fiddler. Watkins debuted in 1989 as the fiddler of the progressive bluegrass group Nickel Creek, which consisted of herself, her elder brother Sean, and mandolinist Chris Thile. As a band, they are notable for three wide-released albums:...
  
   (born 1981)
• Sean Watkins
  Sean Watkins
  Sean Charles Watkins is a guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. He is a member of the contemporary folk band Nickel Creek, the duo Fiction Family and the supergroup Works Progress Administration.-Nickel Creek:...
  
   (born 1977)
• Dale Watson
  Dale Watson (singer)
  Dale Watson is an American alternative country/Texas Country singer, guitarist and songwriter based in Austin, Texas. He's positioned himself as a tattooed, stubbornly independent outsider who is interested in recording authentic country music...
  
   (born 1962)
• Jimmy Wayne
  Jimmy Wayne
  Jimmy Wayne Barber is an American country music singer and songwriter. He released his self-titled debut album in 2003 on the DreamWorks Records label. Four singles were released from it, including "Stay Gone" and "I Love You This Much", which both reached Top Ten on the Billboard country charts...
  
   (born 1972)
• Kitty Wells
  Kitty Wells
  Ellen Muriel Deason , known professionally as Kitty Wells, is an American country music singer. Her 1952 hit recording, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels", made her the first female country singer to top the U.S. country charts, and turned her into the first female country star...
  
   (born 1919)
• James Wesley
  James Wesley
  James Wesley Prosser is an American country music singer. In 1999, Prosser released the album Life Goes On through Warner Bros. Records. Ten years later, he signed to Broken Bow Records under the name James Wesley...
  
  
• Dottie West
  Dottie West
  Dottie West was an American country music singer and songwriter. Along with her friends and co-recording artists Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn, she is considered one of the genre's most influential and groundbreaking female artists...
  
   (1932-1991)
• Elbert West
  Elbert West
  -Track listing:#"Crawlin' Time" – 3:22#"Side of the Road" – 3:46#"Diddley" – 2:52#"Neon Light" – 3:35...
  
   (born 1968)
• Emily West
  Emily West
  Emily Nemmers is an American country music artist who records under the name Emily West. Signed to Capitol Records Nashville, she debuted on Billboard Hot Country Songs charts in early 2008 with the single "Rocks in Your Shoes". This song peaked at #39 early in the year, and is the first single...
  
   (born 1981)
• Shelly West
  Shelly West
  Shelly West is an American country music singer. Her mother was the country music star Dottie West, whose career spanned three decades. Shelly West is best known for having hit duets with David Frizzell, and for their #1 hit "You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma"...
  
   (born 1958)
• Western Flyer
  Western Flyer
  -Track listing:#"Western Flyer" – 3:53#"She Should've Been Mine" – 3:41#"His Memory" – 3:20#"Cherokee Highway" – 4:45...
  
  
• Whiskey Falls
  Whiskey Falls
  Whiskey Falls is an American country music group composed of Seven Williams , Wally Brandt Damon Johnson , and Buck Johnson . Seven Williams & Wally Brandt were once members of Atlantic Records Recording Artist, Seven and the Sun...
  
  
• Bryan White
  Bryan White
  Bryan White is an American country music artist. Signed to Asylum Records in 1994 at age 20, White released his self-titled debut album that year. Both it and its follow-up, 1996's Between Now and Forever, were certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, and 1997's The...
  
   (born 1974)
• Lari White
  Lari White
  Lari Michele White is an American country music artist and actress. She first gained national attention in 1992 as a winner on You Can Be a Star, a talent competition which aired on The Nashville Network...
  
   (born 1965)
• Michael White
  Michael White (singer)
  Larry Michael White is an American country music artist. The son of songwriter L.E. White, who has written for Conway Twitty, Michael was signed to Reprise Records in 1992, releasing his debut album Familiar Ground that year...
  
  
• The Whites
  The Whites
  The Whites is an American country music vocal group consisting of lead singer Sharon White, her sister Cheryl , and their father Buck...
  
  
• Keith Whitley
  Keith Whitley
  Jackie Keith Whitley , known professionally as Keith Whitley, was an American country music singer. Whitley's brief career in mainstream country music lasted from 1984 until his death in 1989, but he continues to influence an entire generation of singers and songwriters...
  
   (1955-1989)
• Slim Whitman
  Slim Whitman
  Ottis Dewey Whitman, Jr. , known professionally as Slim Whitman, is an American country music singer and songwriter, known for his yodelling abilities. He has sold in excess of 120 million albums in unit sales and has had numerous successful recordings...
  
   (born 1924)
• Chuck Wicks
  Chuck Wicks
  Charles Elliott "Chuck" Wicks is an American country music artist. He was one of the participants on the American reality series Nashville, which aired on Fox Networks for two episodes before its cancellation in mid-2007...
  
   (born ca. 1979)
• John & Audrey Wiggins
  John & Audrey Wiggins
  -Track listing:#"Falling Out of Love" – 2:55#"She's in the Bedroom Crying" – 3:18#"Has Anybody Seen Amy" – 3:18#"Memory Making Night" – 3:46...
  
  
• The Wilburn Brothers
  The Wilburn Brothers
  The Wilburn Brothers were a popular American country music duo from the 1950s to the 1970s consisting of brothers Doyle Wilburn and Teddy Wilburn .-Biography:...
  
  
• Wilco
  Wilco
  Wilco is an American alternative rock band based in Chicago, Illinois. The band was formed in 1994 by the remaining members of alternative country group Uncle Tupelo following singer Jay Farrar's departure. Wilco's lineup has changed frequently, with only singer Jeff Tweedy and bassist John...
  
  
• Wild Horses
  Wild Horses (American country band)
  Wild Horses is an American country music band composed of Lon Holland , Steve Kellough , Michael Blake Mahler , Ralph McCauley , Angela Rae , and Chris Sigmon...
  
  
• Wild Rose
  Wild Rose (band)
  Wild Rose was an American country music band founded in 1988 by five women: Pamela Gadd , Kathy Mac , Pam Perry , Nancy Given Prout , and Wanda Vick...
  
  
• Amanda Wilkinson
  Amanda Wilkinson
  Amanda Nichole Wilkinson was born January 17, 1982, in Belleville, Ontario, Canada and was raised in nearby Trenton, Ontario. She is a Canadian country music singer. She is also a member of country group The Wilkinsons, which includes her father Steve and brother Tyler. She began singing early. Her...
  
   (born 1982)
• The Wilkinsons
  The Wilkinsons
  The Wilkinsons is a country music trio from Trenton, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1997, the group comprises lead singer Amanda Wilkinson, her brother Tyler Wilkinson, and their father, Steve Wilkinson. The Wilkinsons achieved success late in 1998 with the hit single "26 Cents", a Number One on the...
  
  
• Williams Riley
  Williams Riley
  Williams Riley is an American country music band composed of Steve Williams , Derek George , Charlie Hutto , Joe Rogers , Dave Guidry , Travis Thibodaux and Nick Buda...
  
  
• Don Williams
  Don Williams
  Don Williams , is an American country singer, songwriter and a 2010 inductee to the Country Music Hall of Fame. He grew up in Portland, Texas, and graduated in 1958 from Gregory-Portland High School. After seven years with the folk-pop group Pozo-Seco Singers, he began his solo career in 1971,...
  
   (born 1939)
• Hank Williams (1923-1953)
• Hank Williams, Jr.
  Hank Williams, Jr.
  Randall Hank Williams , better known as Hank Williams, Jr. and Bocephus, is an American country singer-songwriter and musician. His musical style is often considered a blend of Southern rock, blues, and traditional country...
  
   (born 1949)
• Hank Williams III
  Hank Williams III
  Shelton Hank Williams, known as Hank 3 , is a neotraditional country and punk metal singer, drummer, bassist, and guitarist. In addition to his honky tonk recordings, Williams' style alternates among country, punk and metal...
  
   (born 1972)
• Holly Williams
  Holly Williams
  Holly Williams is an American country music artist. She is the daughter of Hank Williams, Jr. and half-sister of country singer Hank Williams III. Williams has released two studio albums: The Ones We Never Knew and Here with Me, in 2004 and 2009 respectively...
  
   (born 1981)
• Lucinda Williams
  Lucinda Williams
  Lucinda Williams is an American rock, folk, blues and country music singer and songwriter. She recorded her first albums in 1978 and 1980 in a traditional country and blues style and received very little attention from radio, the media, or the public. In 1988, she released her self-titled album,...
  
   (born 1953)
• Tex Williams
  Tex Williams
  Sollie Paul Williams , known professionally as Tex Williams, was an American Western swing musician from Ramsey, Illinois....
  
   (1917-1985)
• John Williamson
  John Williamson (singer)
  John Robert Williamson AM is an Australian country music singer-songwriter. Williamson has released over thirty-two albums, ten videos, five DVDs, and two lyric books...
  
   (born 1945)
• Boxcar Willie
  Boxcar Willie
  Boxcar Willie, born as Lecil Travis Martin was an American country music singer, who sang in the "old-time hobo" music style, complete with dirty face, overalls, and a floppy hat...
  
   (1931-1999)
• Kelly Willis
  Kelly Willis
  Kelly Willis is an American country music singer-songwriter, whose music has been described as contemporary country, alternative country and new traditionalist.-Early life:...
  
   (born 1968)
• Trent Willmon
  Trent Willmon
  Trent Willmon is an American country music artist. Active since 1998 as a songwriter in Nashville, Tennessee, Willmon was signed to Columbia Records in 2004. He released two albums for the label and charted six singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs charts before exiting Columbia in 2006...
  
   (born 1973)
• Larry Willoughby
  Larry Willoughby
  Larry Willoughby is an American country music singer-songwriter and the vice president of A&R at Capitol Records.Willoughby's debut album, Building Bridges, was released in 1984 by Atlantic America...
  
   (born 1947)
• Bob Wills
  Bob Wills
  James Robert Wills , better known as Bob Wills, was an American Western Swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader, considered by music authorities as the co-founder of Western Swing and universally known as the pioneering King of Western Swing.Bob Wills' name will forever be associated with...
  
   (1905-1975)
• David Wills
  David Wills (singer)
  David Wills is an American country music singer-songwriter. Wills released three studio albums and charted more than twenty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart between 1975 and 1988...
  
   (born 1951)
• Mark Wills
  Mark Wills
  Daryl Mark Williams is an American country music artist, best known professionally as Mark Wills. Signed to Mercury Records between 1996 and 2003, he released five studio albums for the label — Mark Wills, Wish You Were Here, Permanently, Loving Every Minute and And the Crowd Goes Wild — as well...
  
   (born 1973)
• Gretchen Wilson
  Gretchen Wilson
  Gretchen Frances Wilson is an American country music artist. She made her debut in 2004 with the Grammy Award-winning single "Redneck Woman," a number-one hit on the Billboard country charts. The song served as the lead-off single of her debut album, Here for the Party...
  
   (born 1973)
• Slim Wilson
  Slim Wilson
  Clyde Carol Wilson , better known as Slim Wilson, was an American singer, songwriter, bandleader, and radio and TV personality who was a cornerstone of country music in the Ozarks for more than 50 years beginning in the 1930s; both in his own right, and as a member of The Goodwill Family and The...
  
   (1910-1990)
• The Warren Brothers
• Tim Wilson (born 1961)
• The Wilsons
  The Wilsons (country duo)
  The Wilsons is a Canadian country music duo composed of Dave and Kortney Wilson. Both Dave and Kortney had solo deals with Lyric Street Records. While neither artist released an album for Lyric Street, Kortney charted two singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in the United...
  
  
• Jeff Wood
  Jeff Wood (singer)
  -Track listing:#"You Call That a Mountain" - 3:26#"Too Late to Turn It Around" - 3:52#"There's No Place Like You" - 4:11...
  
   (born 1968)
• Darryl Worley
  Darryl Worley
  Darryl Wade Worley is an American country music artist. Signed to DreamWorks Records Nashville in 2000, Worley released four albums for the label: Hard Rain Don't Last , I Miss My Friend , Have You Forgotten? , and Darryl Worley in 2004...
  
   (born 1964)
• Lee Ann Womack
  Lee Ann Womack
  Lee Ann Womack is an American country music singer and songwriter, who is best known for her old fashioned-styled country music songs that often discuss subjects such as cheating and lost love....
  
   (born 1966)
• The Wrays
  The Wrays
  The Wrays, also known as The Wray Brothers Band, were an American country music group from Oregon composed of Bubba Wray, Jim Covert, Lynn Phillips and Joe Dale Cleghorn. Following two independent singles, The Wrays released a pair of singles on Mercury Records in the 1980s...
  
  
• The Wreckers
  The Wreckers
  -Studio albums:-Live albums:-Singles:-Featured singles:^ Song was credited as Santana with Michelle Branch and The Wreckers.-Music videos:-Awards and nominations:-External links:***...
  
  
• Chely Wright
  Chely Wright
  Richell Rene "Chely" Wright is an American country music artist and, starting in 2010, gay rights activist. On the strength of her debut album in 1994, the Academy of Country Music named her Top New Female Vocalist in 1995. Wright's first Top 40 country hit came in 1997 with "Shut Up and Drive"...
  
   (born 1970)
• Curtis Wright
  Curtis Wright
  Curtis Blaine Wright is an American country music artist. He made his debut in 1989 with the single "She's Got a Man on her Mind" on a branch of MCA Records, before recording a solo album in 1992 on Liberty Records...
  
   (born 1955)
• Ruby Wright
  Ruby Wright (country singer)
  Ruby Wright was an American country music singer-songwriter. Wright was the daughter of country singers Kitty Wells and Johnnie Wright. Her most successful single was "Dern Ya", an answer to Roger Miller's "Dang Me."...
  
   (1939-2009)
• Wright Brothers Band
  Wright Brothers Band
  The Wright Brothers Band, formerly known as the Wright Brothers Overland Stage Company, formed in 1972, is an Indiana based music group. They perform songs from the 1920s to the present day, and can cover bluegrass, pop standards, country, gospel, and even Aerosmith rock standards...
  
  
• Wrights, The
  The Wrights (country duo)
  The Wrights is an American country music duo composed of husband and wife Adam Wright and Shannon Wright. Adam Wright is also the nephew of country music artist Alan Jackson....
  
  
• Wright Brothers Band
  Wright Brothers Band
  The Wright Brothers Band, formerly known as the Wright Brothers Overland Stage Company, formed in 1972, is an Indiana based music group. They perform songs from the 1920s to the present day, and can cover bluegrass, pop standards, country, gospel, and even Aerosmith rock standards...
  
  
• Wyatt
  Wyatt (band)
  Wyatt is a Canadian country music group from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan composed of Scott Patrick , Daniel Fortier , Bray Hudson and Cam Ewart . Following the release of a Christmas album, Snowed In, in 2005, Wyatt released their debut album, Hard Road, in 2007...
  
  
• Tammy Wynette
  Tammy Wynette
  Virginia Wynette Pugh, known professionally as Tammy Wynette , was an American country music singer-songwriter and one of the genre's best-known artists and biggest-selling female vocalists....
  
   (1942-1998)
• Wynonna (born 1964)

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• Yankee Grey
  Yankee Grey
  Yankee Grey was an American country music group originally composed of six members: David Buchanan , Matthew Basford , Joe Caverlee , Kevin Griffin , Jerry Hughes , and Tim Hunt , all of whom met in Cincinnati, Ohio.Founded in 1986, the band toured throughout the state of Ohio before being signed...
  
  
• Trisha Yearwood
  Trisha Yearwood
  Patricia Lynn Yearwood, professionally known as Trisha Yearwood , is an American country music artist. She is best known for her ballads about vulnerable young women from a female perspective that have been described by some music critics as "strong" and "confident."Trisha Yearwood signed with MCA...
  
   (born 1964)
• Shane Yellowbird
  Shane Yellowbird
  Shane Yellowbird is a Cree-Canadian country music singer/songwriter from Hobbema, Alberta. In 2007, Yellowbird was named the Aboriginal Entertainer of the Year at the Aboriginal People's Choice Music Awards, Chevy Trucks Rising Star of the Year at the Canadian Country Music Awards, and had one of...
  
   (born 1979)
• Dwight Yoakam
  Dwight Yoakam
  Dwight David Yoakam is an American singer-songwriter, actor and film director, most famous for his pioneering country music...
  
   (born 1956)
• Chris Young (born 1985)
• Faron Young
  Faron Young
  Faron Young was an American country music singer and songwriter from the early 1950s into the mid-1980s and one of its most successful and colorful stars...
  
   (1932-1996)
• James & Michael Younger
  James & Michael Younger
  James & Michael Younger, also known as The Younger Brothers, were an American country music group from Edinburg, Texas composed of brothers James and Michael Williams. Their eponymous debut album was released in 1983 by MCA Records...