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Ten Hidden Gems: Kenny Rogers

Kenny Rogers has been all over the place lately, promoting his new disc You Can’t Make Old Friends, which will be released on Warner Brothers on October 8, 2013. Here, our writer and Kenny Rogers "historian" Chuck Dauphin digs into Kenny's vast catalog to highlight these 10 Gems, all album cuts.
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10 Modern Country Rock Favorites - Volume Two

With the first volume of "10 Modern Country Rock Favorites - Volume One" continuing to be read by hundreds of readers a week, the timing is ripe for us to debut our second volume of 10 Modern Country Rock Favorites. Take a look here to see and hear the 10 songs which made our new list!
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10 Modern Country Rock Favorites - Volume Two

With the first volume of "10 Modern Country Rock Favorites - Volume One" continuing to be read by hundreds of readers a week, the timing is ripe for us to debut our second volume of 10 Modern Country Rock Favorites. Take a look here to see and hear the 10 songs which made our new list!
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Roughstock's 10 Best: The 10 Best George Jones Singles

His career is loaded with hits from the 1950s all the way to the 2000s, so to compile this list of George Jones' 10 best Country songs was no easy feat. With the news that The Possum has passed away today, it seemed that the time was right for George Jones.
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Roughstock's 10 Best: Carrie Underwood Songs (From 2005-2012)

In this new feature on Roughstock we will list 10 of our favorite tracks from an artist over a given period. Carrie Underwood has been one of Country Music's top artists since arriving in 2005 so it make sense to start with her. Read on to see our Top 10 and watch videos/listen to the songs chosen!
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10 Most Surprising - Good or Bad - Radio Singles From 2011

Every year there seems to always be quite a few singles released to radio. Some are surprise hits, some are not and then there are others that are just downright surprising for a variety of reasons. We explore all of these things here in this end of the year list.
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Fun For Friday: An iTunes Country Song Playlist

Just for fun today, we've randomly put our iTunes on shuffle and wrote down and discussed the first 10 songs that played and came up with these 10 truly random country songs. Read on to see what songs made our list!
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Book Review: 10 Things We Learned From "Murder On Music Row"

We don't often get a chance to review novels (or books, even) at Roughstock so it was with great pleasure that we were sent the novel Murder on Music Row, a fascinating novel written around Nashville's Music Industry. Read on to see what we learned from reading t