Don McLean Some songs are so huge they end up outshining the songwriter who wrote them. Here are some folk singer-songwriters from the 70s that you’ve likely heard of, even if you…
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These 3 Songs Were Everywhere in 1966—So Why Did We Stop Listening to Them?
American singer Bobby Hebb in 1966. (Photo by David Redfern/Redferns) These catchy songs from 1966 were once all the rage back in the day but have since slipped through the cracks. Nobody…
58 Years Ago Today, Country Music Lost the Rockabilly Pioneer Who Gave Johnny Cash His Signature Sound
Luther Perkins performing with Johnny Cash On this day (August 5) in 1968, Luther Perkins died in the intensive care unit at Vanderbilt University Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, after narrowly surviving a…
3 Songs From the 2000s That Could Have Been Country Standards in Another Lifetime
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – FEBRUARY 20: Kelly Clarkson attends SiriusXM’s Front Row Series with The Voice’s Kelly Clarkson & John Legend at SiriusXM Studios on February 20, 2026 in New York…
3 Hall of Fame Rockers From the 1980s Whose First Bands Never Got off the Ground
American Rock musician Tom Petty (1950 – 2017) plays guitar as he performs, with his band the Heartbreakers, onstage during the ‘Long After Dark’ tour at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York, March…