The vaunted songwriter Harlan Howard is credited with first saying that country music is little more than “three chords and the truth.” Its “big bang” is widely considered to be the so ...

Written by June Carter just around the time she was falling in love with the Man in Black, Johnny Cash's version of "Ring of Fire" was a #1 hit upon its release in 1963. The two were married ...

In country music, there's no denying that some of the best songs are the saddest songs. Few genres are better at exploring themes of love, loss, and heartbreak than country music, and the decades ...

From Mod anthems to ballads for paranoid dictators, via the rummest cast-list in rock – transvestites, seaside idiots, invading armies – for almost 60 years Who songs have challenged the norms of ...

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