In the mid-1990s, the honky tonk quintet BR549 emerged from Nashville's then-seedy Lower Broadway neighborhood to scale the heights of country music success. The band performed with Faith Hill, Tim ...

Certain country music so perfectly captures the dimly-lit lifestyle of a smoky dive bar that it shares its moniker with those establishments: honky-tonk. Both as a place and as a song, the honky-tonk ...

If BR549 were like most country bands, it would have busted up a long time ago. It would have splintered under the pressure of touring schedules that kept the roots-savvy ensemble on the road for as ...

In the alt-country sphere, BR549 has long been a standard-bearer for a kind of imaginary Nashville that never forgot the lessons imparted by the hardcore honky-tonk values of Bakersfield, and stood by ...