English music lost ground last year. Not to other English artists, but to singers Western audiences can’t even understand. Peso Pluma racked up 1.9 billion streams in 2023, singing Mexican corridos.

Were one to listen to today’s received intellectual opinion in music, one might very well think that the West was in the process of becoming a musical colony of the East. We have heard ad nauseam of ...

Steve Cormier is fond of saying he doesn’t write “ride into the sunset songs.” What Cormier, a veteran Western musician, means is that the cowboy songs he pens are rooted in the life of actual, ...