Marissa R. Moss

Morgan Wallen arrives at the CMT Music Awards in Nashville, Tenn. on June 5, 2019. Wallen has apologized after a video surfaced showed him shouting a racial slur. The video, which was first published by TMZ on Tuesday night, showed him outside a home in Nashville, Tennessee yelling profanities.

Analysis: Nashville has punished Morgan Wallen. But country music’s reckoning with racism awaits

February 5, 2021 at 8:40 a.m.

"To no consequences!" Morgan Wallen said during an appearance on "Saturday Night Live" back in December, raising a bottle of beer in a skit about taking a warning from his...

Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus perform at Stagecoach 2019 on April 28 in Indio.

Lil Nas X’s ‘Old Town Road’ sounds like country’s future. So why has Nashville snubbed it?

May 2, 2019 at 12:22 p.m.

The spirit of Johnny Cash — and of country music itself — is as thick as the pollen at the Cash Cabin in Hendersonville, Tenn. This is the place where...

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