Chances are good that we will never be able to pinpoint a single moment when the blues came into existence. Sometimes, a genre is too broad to be summed up in such a way. Still,…

Coldplay is among the best performing rock bands of our time. The group were initially known as Pectoralz, then they became Starfish, and eventually settled on Coldplay after seeking legal counsel over the different spelling…

Outlaw country was a subgenre that thrived in the mid to late 1970s. It was a reaction against the Nashville Sound backed by Music Row executives at the head of the country establishment. As such,…

Chances are good that campfire songs predate civilization. After all, archaic humans were making campfires more than a million years before the emergence of modern humans. Furthermore, our ancestors gained the ability to sing the…

Most songs are recorded once. Often, they fail to make much of an impression, thus resulting in them sinking back into oblivion. A smaller number receive covers. Generally speaking, they receive one or two. However,…

Chickens don’t occupy the same spot as dogs in the popular consciousness. Even so, they have played an integral role in the human experience, which makes sense because they have been with us for such…

Jonny Lang is an American singer-songwriter who found success as a teenager. Since then, he has continued releasing new music, with the result that he now has seven studio albums. As such, interested individuals should…

Age is a universal part of the human experience. Even so, we don’t respond to it the same way. Some of us fear it and fight it. In contrast, others have been known to make…

Al Stewart is a Scottish musician who benefited much from the revival of British folk music in the 1960s and 1970s. He has had a long career. For proof, consider how he released his first…