Ferlin Husky, a pioneering country music entertainer in the 1950s and early '60s known for hits like "Wings of a Dove" and "Gone," died Thursday. He was 85.

But it wasn’t just at Sun where country combined with rock. Buddy Holly, like Orbison, grew up on country music and made the switch to rock after opening up for Presley a couple of times in 1955 ...

Okay, we all have some skeletons in our closet, shit we dig -- be it music, movies or television shows -- that we'd just as soon nobody else knew about. "Guilty pleasures" is what most people term ...

If it weren't for these three Nashville Sound country songs the genre as we know it, would be entirely different.

Chuck Mead and his band, including members of the city’s original A-Team of session players, revive the loose, genial vibe of the Quonset Hut’s ’50s and ’60s heyday.

Bob Harris selects his favourite country tracks from the 50s, a decade when country music was dominated ... The season launches in April with a look at the decade of music from the mid-50s to mid-60s.

“I worked at a local honky-tonk bar, playing ’50s and ’60s country music six or seven nights a week,” he remembers. “I played with guys in their 50s.