Eighty-nine years ago today, a legendary country songwriter and multi-instrumentalist was born in North Carolina.

In an exclusive interview with American Songwriter, The Doobie Brothers’ John McFee shares the story behind the just-reissued sole album by his short-lived supergroup Jackdawg.

On the recording they made for their 1956 debut LP Tragic Songs of Life (later a country hit), Ira and Charlie Louvin ...

In 1977, Muscle Shoals Sound Studio cofounder and Swampers guitarist Jimmy Johnson offered a local band called Jackson Highway a song called “Old Time Rock and Roll.” The band, named after Muscle ...

Born in Jacksonville just over 50 years ago, 38 Special is still holding on loosely. The nonstop Southern rock band is celebrating its anniversary with its first studio album in more than twenty years ...

Lynyrd Skynyrd vocalist Johnny Van Zant said the Southern rock titans "will leave that door open" for a new studio album without late co-founding guitarist Gary Rossington, according to a new Classic ...

38 Special will release their first album in more than 20 years later this summer. Milestone arrives on Sept. 19 and marks the Jacksonville, Florida-based Southern rock band’s first studio LP since ...

Very few Americans would have trouble recognizing the opening notes of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s iconic anthem, “Sweet Home Alabama.” And when they do recognize it, they typically “turn it up,” as the singer ...