Elements of the blues traveled to America with enslaved people from Africa, and reached full flower in the Mississippi Delta.

David Burtka is sober. His husband, Neil Patrick Harris, imbibes. Together, they love to throw parties. This elfin book, ...

The show's American songwriting duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul won an Oscar for the 2016 movie La La Land. Read more at ...

Amid a 24-hour news cycle and personalized algorithms, a wave of young artists are reviving bold, plainspoken protest music ...

Many of the meals made by American families during the Great Depression initially gained popularity because they were ...

Fleetwood Mac’s most memorable song came out in 1975 and it is not Dreams, here is the story behind Landslide and how it ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Inspired by a new book on the life and times of Wings, we pick ten gems from Sir Paul's still-somehow-underrated post-breakup ...

Squeeze dig deep into their songwriting archives for their upcoming album 'Trixies,' a collection of tracks the band wrote in their teenage years.

On his 80th birthday, we look at the songs that defined a folk hero, rock icon and one of Canada’s greatest songwriters.

These story songs from the 1960s have some really gut-wrenching lyrics that you might miss if you don't listen closely.

Led Zeppelin transformed the 1929 blues song by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie into the powerful rock anthem When the ...