Sissy Spacek: ‘Weinstein did some unsavoury things. He could never look at me after that’

The star of Carrie, Badlands and Coal Miner’s Daughter on her decades-long career

CMAT: If My Wife New I’d Be Dead review – one of the best albums of 2022

CMAT has a real skill for presenting living and breathing issues on a silver platter

Nanci Griffith’s Irish hit, cancer history and ‘really dysfunctional’ family

Teacher turned Grammy winner was shrewd song picker with substantial body of work

CMAT: ‘I had a full mental breakdown – it was better just to get it out of the way’

The singer on mental health, hyperfemininity and using humour as a shield

Daniel O’Donnell: On My Culture Radar

The singer on the mural art of Kevin Gallagher, the comedy of Conal Gallen, and why he’s still enchanted by The Sound of Music

Maureen Dowd: For the White House parasite, all restraint has gone

An unfettered Trump, playing out his own movie script, setting a torch to Washington

TV View: Weather warning fails to dampen camogie excitement

Just when you think you’ve it figured, Kerry and Westmeath go and win camogie titles

Margo Price: midwest farmer’s daughter’s rocky road to success

The US country singer’s story reads like a tragic country song, but a deal with Jack White’s Third Man Records and an acclaimed debut album has opened up a new chapter

Grammy nominations: Beyoncé and Adele shine while rock suffers

Beyoncé’s nine dominating nods, along with strong showings for Rihanna, Kanye West, Drake and Chance the Rapper, reflect a stellar year for black artists

Death of BBC broadcaster Paddy O’Flaherty aged 73

Politicians and colleagues pay tribute to popular journalist noted for ‘great voice’

Nashville: from country mecca to music industry powerhouse

The town has long been a place of pilgrimage for country musicians. Now the Tennessee city is booming, thanks in part to its own TV show, and the rest of the music industry is turning up in the honky tonk bars of Nashville

Lucinda Williams: ‘My stuff is so much more than country’

Recognition came late for the Americana musician, but when the accolades came they were big ones: Grammys and having a strand of marijuana named after her

Country Soul Sisters Volume 2

Obituary: George Jones

Peerless and hard-living country music legend