Flip through the slideshow for 20 essential country songs from the 1970s, and keep in mind: this decade was so packed with great music that it's almost impossible to narrow it down to the cream of ...

Kris Kristofferson was a true master of country songwriting, and these five incredible legacy songs prove that notion.

But changes were on the way. Signs of the '70s - from singer-songwriter introspection to down-and-dirty funk - began to surface here. And some artists so identifiable with the '60s, like the ...

There was no shortage of talent or personalities among the musicians in ‘70s Lynyrd Skynyrd. But unlike some other huge bands of that era, songs not ... Skynyrd’s most country-sounding classic ...