John Wesley Ryles, a prolific country music entertainer with tons of hits from the late 1960s through the 1980s, died Sunday, ...

Country singer Mark Willis also posted about Ryles’ death.

This 1968 one-hit wonder was working as a secretary in Nashville when she first heard (and was unimpressed by) a demo of her future hit.

Before country music became the cultural giant it is today, it was a genre with a limited geographic and demographic appeal that did not extend as far as it does now. However, while The Beatles, The ...