The Recording Academy announced on June 12, 2025, that the 68th Grammy Awards, scheduled for February 1, 2026, will feature two new categories in country music: Best Traditional Country Album and Best ...

The Black Country Living Museum has been acclaimed for the rich heritage, warmth and authenticity it brings to guests after winning a major tourism award.

(From left to right) Ward councillors Karl Denning, Steve Edwards, Karen Westwood, Peter Drake, Pete Lowe, Matt Cook will now sit as Black Country Party councillors A new "community-led" political ...

With the Black Country facing a slightly higher-than-average regional dementia diagnosis rate, the local NHS mental health trust is playing a key role in national research, focusing on compassion ...

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According to her website, this made her the highest-charting Black female country artist at the time, a record she held until Beyoncé’s “TEXAS HOLD ‘EM” debuted at #1 on Feb. 21, 2024.

At the start of the year, Black Country, New Road announced their third album, Forever Howlong, and shared a lead single, “Besties.” Now, the sextet have shared a follow-up track to preview ...

Black Country, New Road has been with me since the small apocalypse — or my freshman year of COVID-19-induced online high school. Isolation gave me permission to spend hours hunched over my laptop in ...

Despite country music's roots, Black artists have faced a relentless struggle to obtain mainstream success in the genre. Beyoncé's album "Cowboy Carter" highlighted Black country artists past and ...

The 2024 edition of the nation's largest Country festival saw one of its most diverse lineups to date, and ESSENCE was boots-on-the-ground ...

We've always been "country," but viewed the term as an insult and the musical genre as unwelcoming. In a year Beyonce ignited a sea-change and Black artists in Birmingham are riding the wave.

To recap the past seven years: Black Country, New Road began in 2018, and their debut album, For the First Time, arrived in February 2021 as the culmination of an “18-month journey” where they ...