Sixty-five years ago today, the country music world lost a legend who recorded some of the genre's most memorable songs.

The Number Ones is a new column where I’ll review every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.

Tennessee Jet's "Johnny" channels two very different music legends: 1950s honky-tonk singer Johnny Horton and rock icon Kurt Cobain. The Nirvana-esque track is premiering exclusively on The Boot; ...

Sixty years ago this month, Johnny Horton’s song “The Battle of New Orleans” began its improbable trek to the top of the Billboard pop music charts. The opening lines — for which we apologize in ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) — A new book that details what country music star Johnny Horton was like before and after finding fame, and the author said she could not have written the book without the ...

On this date in 1959, Johnny Horton, who grew up in Rusk, had a hit with the history inspired “The Battle of New Orleans.” The song presents a version of the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812 ...

In the middle of the night on Nov. 5, 1960, Johnny “Battle of New Orleans” Horton’s premonition of dying at the hands of a ...