From 16th-century playwrights to 1960s girl groups: the many influences behind Dire Straits’ under-appreciated 1980 track, “Romeo and Juliet”. The post How Shakespeare, (Probably) Bob Dylan, and an Ex-Girlfriend Inspired This Underappreciated…
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Born on This Day in 1951, the Blue-Eyed Singing Sister of Loretta Lynn With Hair So Long She’d Make Rapunzel Jealous
Born on this day in 1951 was country great Crystal Gayle. Revisit the country icon’s career on her birthday. The post Born on This Day in 1951, the Blue-Eyed Singing Sister of…
Pop Megastar Says She’s Done Performing in the United States “For Extremely Sensitive Reasons”
Pop star Britney Spears, who last performed live in 2018, has vowed never to return to the stage in the U.S. The post Pop Megastar Says She’s Done Performing in the United…
The Sweetly Innocent Letter a Teenage Emmylou Harris Sent to Pete Seeger When She Was Starting out Playing Music
Emmylou Harris wrote a six-page letter to Pete Seeger as a teen, and he responded to her sweetly innocent questions with sincerity. The post The Sweetly Innocent Letter a Teenage Emmylou Harris…
Cody Johnson Shares Surprising Connections From His Prison Guard Past and the Piece of Advice He Gives Every Inmate
Thanks to his country music stardom, Cody Johnson revealed that former inmates he once guarded have reached out to him. The post Cody Johnson Shares Surprising Connections From His Prison Guard Past…