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Willie Nelson is king when it comes to country music commercials during the Super Bowl, but there is a queen.

The music business is a high-stakes, high-risk venture, and it's not unusual for things to wind up in court.

When your head gives a song more spins than your local radio station, that song becomes what's called an "earworm."

Country music and Christmas songs have been walking together hand in hand through the drifting snow for decades.

A photo gallery of country stars' yearbook pictures.

Kenny Rogers' songs are iconic, but truth be told, the singer has seen success in just about every form of entertainment.

The '80s were a transitional decade for country music: a time when artists could try out different styles and approaches -- and, by extension, adopt new traditions that would come to reverberate in the '90s and beyond.

Many of our favorite country stars have been in the public eye for multiple decades, which means that some of them have changed a lot since when they first hit the stage.

Where there's smoke, there's bound to be fire, so the saying goes ... and where there's money, there's bound to be lawsuits, even between generally congenial country stars.

Not every artist finds country success when coming in from a different genre ... but these men and women did!