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Food is a necessity. As a result, it has a vital role in human culture, as shown by the incredible number of songs that mention it in one way or another. Generally speaking, food isn’t being used in a literal sense. Instead, it stands in for a wide range of things, thus enabling more complex…

Nothing gets the soul pumping quite like songs for speed. It’s these types of pulsating tracks that gets us revved up to the point of no return. Throughout the decades, speed is usually represented with tracks about fast cars. The forceful beats of these tracks represent the thrust of these vehicular beasts as they hit…

Kiki Dee is the stage name of the English singer Pauline Matthews. Her music career started in 1960. However, she didn’t become well-known until she signed with Elton John’s record label a decade later. Eventually, that led to her performing “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” with the Rocket Man himself in 1976, which propelled her…

Dean Martin was a singer, actor, and comedian who began his career in entertainment in the mid-1940s. He became known as one of the most prominent, popular, and successful entertainers of the 20th century. In 1946, Dean Martin got his career breakthrough in partnership with Jerry Lewis, performing under the name ‘Martin & Lewis.’ After…

Darryl Worley is best known these days as the host of the Tennessee River Run charity foundation event that raises funds for St Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and the Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center. The country and western singer and songwriter hit the charts in the late 1990s and early 2000s…

Cat Stevens, whose real name is Steven Demetre Georgiou, is a British singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He began his career in 1965 and has performed and recorded under several other names, including Steve Adams and Yusuf Islam. Stevens is associated with various music genres, including folk, rock, and pop. Later in his career, he became…

Country music has earned a reputation for sadness. To an extent, that is because of country songs about death, which can be as heart-wrenching as they come. Some of these pack more of an emotional punch than others, thus making them that much more memorable. Here is our opinion of the 20 best sad country…

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, everyone agrees the blues started being documented in the early 20th century, though its roots reach much further back. The…