Charlie Daniels On this day (July 6) in 2020, Charlie Daniels died of a hemorrhagic stroke in Hermitage, Tennessee, at the age of 83. Today, many remember him for “The Devil Went…
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3 Songs That Every Small-Town Radio Station Played Constantly in the 1970s
Unspecified – 1973: Jim Croce performing live on ‘In Concert’. (Photo by ABC via Getty Images) Remember listening to small-town AM radio in the 1970s when you were just a youngin’? Small-town…
This Whitney Houston No. 1 Might Be Tied to Her Affair With a Certain Jackson Brother
Every great song has a great backstory. I’d like to argue, though, that few are as interesting as the story that allegedly follows Whitney Houston‘s No. 1 hit, “Saving All My Love…
28 Years Ago Today, We Said Goodbye to the Man Who Went From Peach Picker to the “King of Cowboys”
NEW YORK, N.Y. — The Rodeo, starring Roy Rogers, singing cowboy star of republic pictures, held its dress rehersal at Madison Square Garden. Here, Roy Rogers is shown with his horse, “Trigger,”…
3 Songs From the 1980s That Could Have Been Country Standards in Another Lifetime
Tom Petty (Photo by Deanne Fitzmaurice/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images) These 1980s songs may not be country, per se. But they could be. With minimal changes, these songs could’ve belonged to…