'Some people just don't understand what the song is about at all.' ...

When Martina McBride's "Independence Day" was released to country radio in April 1994, it was easy to mistake the country song for a U-S-A! U-S-A! anthem. It was titled after America's most patriotic ...

“This was another one of those songs that took a long time to tell me how it wanted to end, how it was going to end,” songwriter Gretchen Peters once said. “The chorus’s idea is what happened for me ...

Listen to songs by Martina McBride, Destiny’s Child, Kelly Clarkson and more. By Caryn Ganz Hello again from your guest playlister — Lindsay’s editor, Caryn — in this lead-up to the Fourth of July.

From beloved classics to new releases, here are the all-American songs by Nashville artists that you want on your holiday playlist.