Rock & roll was born in the 1950s, a more raucous, electrified form of the blues. In the 1960s, the genre was given more life. Still rudimentary in some ways, it grew over the era and then found its ...

John Lennon didn't have the big-bang decade-opening album like his former bandmate George Harrison. He didn't turn to more homespun music like Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. Instead, he simply bared ...

Decades later, country icon Willie Nelson recorded a cover of the Grateful Dead classic for his ... Blues” for their 1970 album Workingman’s Dead. The song about a pair of coal miners sees ...

One of the saddest classic rock songs was written by The Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and recorded by another star.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Opening this weekend at the JCC, it’s the show called “Hitmakers,” which is back for its 10th edition. The musical explores the vast and varied artists that defined the ...

The members of Horsebath may all be born and bred Canadians, but their record collection is clearly crammed with musicians well south of the border. Their ...

From rock to soul and funk to country, we go across the globe to bring you some of the finest songs from the decade. The best 70s songs? It’s an impossible task, surely. There was simply too ...

THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT COUNTRY SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA BY ONLINE MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MEASURED BY ...

Elton John disclosed his rare habit of listening to his classic songs, often avoiding them, but found himself astounded by a live album from 1977. Working on a documentary fostered nostalgia, ...

Of course, the original was a solo write by Kris, and included on his 1970 album Kristofferson ... traditional stylings of country music that laid the foundation of what made the genre so special and ...