From New York City to Chicago to Portland, bars are riding a country boom, drawing everyone from outlaw singers to finance ...

“There’s a band playing in my head all the time,” Ellis Bullard says. “The real magic is trying to capture what they’re playing and trying to emote it and get it out.” Bullard hails from Austin, where ...

Where can you find a honky tonk in Iowa? Katie Sires, the lead singer and chief songwriter of the Cedar Valley country band that bears her name, asks that question on the closing track of the band’s ...