Stacker compiled a list of noteworthy milestones from each year of country music history, using a variety of news articles, historical resources, and more.

In the following exclusive excerpt, part of a chapter titled Jukin’, that relationship is on full display. The excerpt begins with a 1988 trip McDonough takes to Stewart’s home in Fort Pierce, Florida ...

K-pop titan BTS takes a golden moment to return with its first full album in five years, leading a new music releases week that also includes titles by Luke Combs, the Tedeschi Trucks Band, Alex Isley ...

Bob Dylan's demo from 1973 became the basis for the most overplayed country song of all time Wagon Wheel by Old Crow Medicine ...