Country Music Features

Callista Clark takes a look back on all the influential music that's helped her carve her own path, selecting five of her life-long favourite songs for Cuts The Deepest.

“Guys like me, we're trying to carry on the tradition of Texas folk music. I can't say whether I'm doing the best job of it or not, but I'm here doing it," Vincent Neil Emerson says. "I'm telling my truth to the world.”

The roots-infused title track appears on his forthcoming tenth album, You Don't Really Know Me.

She might be best known as one half of superstar country duo Sugarland, but Jennifer Nettles is clearly having a splendid time chatting about all these solo projects. “I’m talking about music and me,” she says, tongue-in-cheek, “what’s not to love?”

More than any other music genre, country loves to tell a story. Eady’s new single 'French Summer Sun' elevates that form.

We take a look at the occasions non-country artists hit the mother lode and unexpectedly came up with some (fairly) solid country gold.