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…
Josh Kiszka is an American musician. Generally speaking, he is known for being the lead singer of Greta Van Fleet. However, it is interesting to note that Kiszka has an interest in film-making, which might explain how he winded up contributing to the soundtrack of Aquaman. 1. Comes from Frankenmuth, MI Kiszka comes from the…
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…
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 possibilities available for “ColdPlay.” The British rock band boasts nine studio albums, six live albums, and four DVDs. They also…
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, outlaw country musicians disregarded profit-maximizing rules and restrictions, spurred on by the counter-culture sentiments that were so common in those…
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 same way we do more than 530,000 years ago, though that isn’t the same as actually doing so. The idea…
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, some have hundreds. Unsurprisingly, these songs tend to be well-known, even if interested individuals don’t know their names off-hand. Here…