A new release of an 1891 song by Louis Vasnier deepens what we know about the genre’s origins.

Bob Dylan could totally take on these five classic country songs with ease; and he's technically covered one of them already.

Louis Vasnier sang “Thompson’s Old Gray Mule,” which is now labeled as the oldest country recording in existence.

Country music came tumbling out of the mountains along with the rise of radio. One hundred years ago, in the 1920s, Vernon ...