These bands are essential listening for any fan of Red Dirt country music. They showcase the quality and variety of the sub-genre.

These country songs from the 1980s had everything they needed to top the charts except for love from the radio.

For musicians like Rhiannon Giddens and Rissi Palmer, trying to break down doors in the folk and country music scenes has been a long road. A festival in Durham this weekend aims to remedy that.