These country hits from the 1970s are still popular among fans of classic country music, and they all belong on your next playlist.

Ivory Joe wrote and released “Empty Arms” in 1957. It reached No. 2 on the Billboard R&B chart. More than a decade later, country singer Sonny James took the song to No. 1 in the early 1970s. James ...

I spent my formative adolescent years in a decade that saw rock and roll hit a peak and then begin a long, slow decline. It ...