To the country music community, the Marty Robbins' signature song, El Paso is a genre-busting classic that helped...
Does Bruce Springsteen ever stop working? Does his creativity ever stop flowing? When Western Stars came out, the...
Jackson Browne started writing Take It Easy for his own debut album, but couldn't quite get it right....
Tom T. Hall wrote The Year That Clayton Delany Died about a local guitar player, Lonnie Easterly, that...
There's a lot of fiddle playing in country, folk and Americana. You could easily draw up a list...
The tale of a one-armed Cajun alligator hunter may not be the most obvious subject for a song,...
Lots of songs are full of great advice, but The Gambler has country's most enduring nuggets of handy...
What does Madness's Night Boat To Cairo have to do with boats, Egypt or even night? By Suggs's...
4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) is the sound of a young Bruce gearing up for so many...
Outside of the country community, Jambalaya (On The Bayou) is a song by... (insert name of pretty much...
Which Hank Williams? Take your pick. Hank Williams Snr, Hank Williams Jnr or both? When Junior recorded his...
Charley Pride's nostalgic ode to a simpler time. A time when our Charley could walk hand in hand...
Like so many pioneering women blues singers such as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Memphis Minnie is all too often...
Over the years, the subject inspiration behind Wings' Jet seems to change with the regularity of Macca saying...
It's Five O'Clock Somewhere is a trope far from unique to country. From Scandinavian death metal fans to...
Think of sixties soul and you will be thinking of Wilson Pickett singing Mustang Sally before too long....
The Only Ones are usually lazily cast as one of punk's one-hit wonders, and while Another Girl Another...
As a kid, Cannonball Run was, along with The Posideon Adventure and Star Wars, my favourite movie in...
Be Bop A Lula is the track that the world knows Gene Vincent the best for - and...
Is Twenty Flight Rock the most important record in modern music? Well, it was because Paul McCartney knew...