Rejected by other artists, “I Cross My Heart” found its perfect match in George Strait and went on to become a classic.

The Star-Spangled Banner' became the country's official national anthem 95 years ago on March 3, and some of the interpretations have been particularly memorable.

Country artists like Chris Stapleton and Midland talk about drinking songs in country music and how a decline in consumption may affect new songs.

Whistlers aren’t born. They’re made.

One thousand songs. By all accounts, Lightnin’ Wells knows more than 1,000 songs by heart — thigh-slapping, heart-thumping, crying, can’t-help-but-grin-and-sing-along music. His bread and butter is ...

Spotify is stacking the most-beloved pop songs against one another in a new playlist.

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

When people talk about the greatest female rock singers of all time, the same names inevitably come up, year after year: Janis Joplin, Stevie Nicks, Joan Jett, Pat Benatar, Debbie Harry, Patti Smith, ...

Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson declared a vintage folk song "the greatest ever," and it's a pick that stops music fans in their tracks. Beloved 70s shock rocker Alice Cooper recalled that Wilson ...

It’s always a shocker when famous rock songs that are still enjoyed today didn’t actually have much luck on the charts decades earlier. That was the case for the following classic rock songs that we ...