Few songs capture the essence of despair. “Jolene” is one of them. Written by the incomparable Dolly Parton, the tune ...

Whenever Stevie Ray Vaughan stepped onto the stage to rock his guitar in front of cheering fans wherever he went, many people compared him to his heroes such as Jimi Hendrix, Muddy Waters, and Mick ...

Country music’s roots are in rural areas of the Southern and Western United States. Traditional Celtic and Scottish folk songs and ballads started evolving in the Appalachian Mountains. In 1923, ...

The biggest disappointment in the musical career of Mott the Hoople was that they disintegrated right at the moment when they found success. Overall, the English rock band created a legacy that would ...

Modern vampires can trace their roots to ancient stories. However, they owe most of their presentation to a small collection of seminal works. Bram Stoker’s Dracula is the most influential of these by ...

Eydie Gorme was active from the early 1950s to the late 2000s. She came from a Sephardic Jewish background. As such, she spoke fluent Spanish, thus enabling her to perform pop and Latin pop. Sometimes ...

The 2002 American film, Drumline is a great display of the joy, heart and passion of American marching bands. If you want a movie that can influence your kids to join the local school band, then ...

From the lead vocalist to the drummer, each member of a metal band adds to the sound. Almost all metal bands have talented guitarists, and there is usually one member of the band playing the bass ...

If you were born in the 90s, it’s hard wrapping your head around when you first heard a song and barely had the time to research the artist. All you did was hum or nod your head to the music, hoping ...

The Raspberries were formed in Mentor, Ohio, in the early 1970s. Eric Carmen and Jim Bonfanti enjoyed some success with their groups Cyrus Erie and the Choir. Another member, Wally Bryson and John ...

In an interview with Fatherly, Ryan Britt spoke with the person who accidentally coined the phrase “dad rock“. In 2007, journalist Rob Mitchum first heard the album Sky Blue Sky by Wilco. Since he ...

Brent Smith is a singer-songwriter who tends to be best-known because of his role as the leader of Shinedown, a famous rock band. In recent times, interested individuals might have seen his name in ...