Need some country songs from the 1980s do soothe your soul and give you a dose of nostalgia? We're fond of these four tracks.

In the 1970s and 1980s, country music was shifting rapidly. As artists like Glen Campbell and Crystal Gayle brought more of a pop influence to the genre, a cadre of artists who didn't like the ...

Kathy Mattea is among the most commercially successful and respected female country artists of her era, infusing 1980s country with ... I just wanted to play music with people.

Using YouGov, you can see exactly which artists people born between 1965 and 1980 as part of Gen X think are the most popular country music artists. Given that Gen Xers are often the parents of ...

Dwight Yoakam has country music cred. The pioneering artist ... Like most of the “new traditionalist” artists of the 1980s, Dwight had grown up listening to the The Band and other Top 40 ...