Despite having more than 40 years behind them, these country songs from the 1980s still sound insanely fresh today.

Billboard's staff picks the greatest country songs of the past century that have made us love, cry, drink and dance. In many ways, country music tells the story of America. There is the celebration of ...

In March 1981, this updated version of “Guitar Man” spent one week atop the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, marking the final-number one country hit of Presley’s career.

Plenty of rock acts have drawn from country for their work, with the results ranging from near-satires to wild reimaginings to straightforward rerecordings.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Guitar music is a ubiquitous feature of popular music, ...