The Chicks' "Wide Open Spaces" comes to mind as one of thebest country songsabout girls leaving home and breaking out on their own to explore the world. In it, as the presumably college-age daughter is driving away, her mother recalls her own experiences, decades before, as this anthemic...
Malia Obama, oldest daughter of President Barack Obama, is in her senior year of high school, and she has been accepted to attend Harvard University as her college of choice. However, before the first daughter attends her very first college class, she will be taking a year off—otherwise kn...
In important family moments, Mom deserves the head of the table. A wedding celebration is no exception: See the best mother-son wedding dance songs.
chronicling a mother supporting her tiny daughter from when she finishes last in a race to the day she has to let her daughter fly free and chase her dreams. The chorus, "You can't lose me / Bet your life / I am here
The “Thinking ‘Bout You" duet singer talks for the first time about how she fell in love with country music growing up on her family’s ranch in rural Canada.
At first listen, "Independence Day" might sound like a good old fashioned patriotic country song, but listen closer: It's actually about a mother and daughter who get out from under the thumb of an abusive patriarch, in a pretty grisly way. ...
By this point, his daughter, Pam Tillis, had followed in his footsteps to forge her own successful country music career. In 1998, Tillis joined fellow veteran country performers Waylon Jennings, Jerry Reed and Bobby Bare to form the Old Dogs, which recorded a double album of Shel Silverstein...
Va., Brad Paisley took a date to see the film Father of the Bride and couldn't help but notice actress Kimberly Williams, who played the role of daughter Annie Banks. Back then, the possibility of marrying the young starlet seemed about as likely as going to the moon, but as the ...
The Judds, the mother-daughter duo comprised of Naomi and Wynonna Judd, released their debut full-length studio album,Why Not Me,on Oct. 15, 1984. In 1992, the disc was certified double platinum. In the late 1980s and early '90s, the Judds werethecountry music duo. That's when their...
Loretta Lynn, the “Coal Miner’s Daughter” whose gutsy lyrics and twangy, down-home vocals made her a queen of country music for seven decades, has died. She was 90. Lynn’s family said in a statement to CNN that she died Tuesday at her home in Tennessee. “Our precious mom, ...