The 1980s were filled with striking debut albums. These four acts impressively came out of the gate with masterpieces.

Country singer-songwriter Helen Cornelius, best known as one-half of a duo with Jim Ed Brown, was born on Dec. 6, 1941.

Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Willie Nelson joined forces to record "Highwayman" on Dec. 6, 1984.

The half-funny, half-sad reason Ringo Starr refused to sing this lyric from "With a Little Help from My Friends".

If you can't stand these one-hit wonders from the 1990s, you're not alone. But listeners back in the day saw their appeal.

The second and final single from his platinum 1986 album #7, “It Ain’t Cool to Be Crazy About You” was yet another Dean ...

The Byrds almost covered another Bob Dylan track before settling on a folk standard Pete Seeger wrote in the late 1950s.

Rising country star Conner Smith is speaking out about the "darkness" and "trauma" resulting from his involvement in a fatal ...

On this day in 1976, Willie Nelson's 'The Troublemaker' reached No. 1 three years after the outlaw country legend recorded it ...

Joni Mitchell almost used a nude photograph for a 1972 album cover, but her manager, David Geffen, talked her out of it.

Don Chapel, country music singer-songwriter and second husband to Tammy Wynette, died Dec. 6, 2015, at age 84.

Roy Orbison had a complicated rollercoaster of a career, in which great success and immense tragedy seemed to go hand in hand ...