In the late ’50s, “Don Owens’s TV Jamboree” was a must-see every Saturday for country music fans across the Washington metro area. A promoter and DJ with a carnival-barker’s zeal, Owens was known to ...

In the early 1980s, among the gay community in Alberta, Canada, old-school female country singers were all the rage. “It became slightly fashionable to like Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn,” said Kathryn ...

k.d. lang is a stylistic chameleon whose career has veered from Patsy Cline-style honky-tonk to Cali-pop to smooth jazz takes on the Great American Songbook. The only consistent thing about the quirky ...