Rock and roll doesn't always prioritise itself on its lyrical content, but Robert Plant felt that there were giants that traced back to the rock's early days.

James McMurtry reminds me, line by line, that music can still do more than decorate our playlists. It can hold our hands ...

Before streaming services, black music was pressed onto 78-rpm records, even before vinyl. As we wrap up our Black Music ...

The lively songs and performances of Clifton Chenier, who would have turned 100 today, brought fans—including the Rolling ...

Texas author unearths the most complete story of the elusive early Texas bluesman and preacher "Blind" Willie Johnson yet.

Ray Charles, John Lee Hooker (with Pinetop Perkins ), Cab Calloway, and James Brown all get memorable musical moments, but ...

Johnson City blues gem Lightnin’ Charlie delivered a lesson in music immortality circa 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s at the annual ...

NASHVILLE - As a kid growing up in a small town in Kentucky, Ashley Gorley was obsessed not just with songs but with the way listeners reacted to them. He studied the weekly radio countdowns to try to ...

When Chuck Berry didn’t show up to court on the 1958 peeping Tom charge, Judge Norman R. Moore ordered the rock’n roll star’s bond of $156.25 forfeited and sentenced him to 60 days in jail.

The 2015 dramatization of his life, Love & Mercy, directed by Bill Pohlad and starring Paul Dano and John Cusack as Wilson in ...

Worldwide there are 20 Elvis Presley Enterprises sanctioned events where Elvis tribute artists can qualify to compete in the ...

It's easy to tell when a child sees one of Chuck Graham’s photographs of island foxes, now on exhibit at the Santa Barbara ...