You might think hair metal and country music have very little in common, but these ballads from 1988 show a connection between the two.

FARGO — David Holweger isn’t a man of excess words. He lets his music do the talking. With his acoustic guitar in tow, the singer-songwriter from Hatton, N.D., often performs his signature ballads in ...

Though not all school dances feature country music, several songs are so universal that even those who hate the genre acknowledge them. In the 1990s, there was no shortage of country songs that seemed ...