Today in Music History for March 1: ...

For the perfect Valentine’s Day, you’ll need the perfect soundtrack. Luckily, love songs are far from a rare commodity.

The famous Italian cantautore was born in 1950, in the province of Milan. After learning to play the violin in Genoa, where ...

In The Wire 493, George Rayner-Law argues that as interest in English folk song grows once again, practitioners, critics and listeners should consider carefully the ideological currents beneath the su ...

The Sly & the Family Stone leader is the subject of a new documentary directed by Questlove. Here’s what to know about his ...

Ellen Stekert, 89, is releasing her first independent album this year. Now if she could just find her treasured 1955 Martin ...

Bela “Bealy” Lam and His Greene County Singers was comprised of Lam, with banjo; his wife Rosa (Meadows); their son Alva, on ...

Lead Belly is another important figure in the early stages of folk. You might recognize one of his trademark songs " Where Did You Sleep Last Night ." The song dates back to the 1800s, but was sung by ...

The concert as a whole demonstrated the astonishing range of George Gershwin’s music—from the Broadway musical stage to the ...

Watching the film, “A Complete Unknown,” about Bob Dylan and his early days starting out on his road to fame, helped me realize how much this musician was such an ...

After almost six hours of FireAid, Lady Gaga ended the historic Los Angeles event by debuting her new song “All I Need Is Time” co-written with her fiance Michael Polansky, an upbeat number ...

That's why legendary performer and producer T Bone Burnett, who shares that energy, had nine country songs already written ... sounds culled from the early 1950s, when Nashville took the helm ...