Marty Robbins wrote his iconic cowboy ballads with a wild imagination, but the story of "El Paso" takes place in a real ...
Rufus Wainwright has long expressed his admiration for “pop music with an operatic sensibility, the profane with the divine”, ...
Sixty-nine years ago today, Marty Robbins was at the top of the country chart with a song that was a massive hit for other artists as well.
Andrew Tibbs's debut was his only single to provoke racist backlash, but he had a string of regionally successful records through Aristocrat.
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It takes hours of planning, programming and assembly to deck these halls, but once they’re done, folks from far and wide ...
Alice Gerrard and Hazel Dickens bonded at parties in the early 1960s. They would go on to form a groundbreaking bluegrass ...
November marks the 91st birthday of legendary singer Fairuz, as Ahram Online celebrates her artistic achievements and ...
What Bengal needs desperately is to embrace its glorious past, exhume its heroes with warts and all, and not shy away from ...
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Today in Music History for Dec. 8: In 1865, Finnish composer Jan Sibelius was born. A romantic composer, his works express an intense, mystical love of nature. Sibelius is best known for his ...
If a whirlwind of a gambling, mission-saving, romantic play sounds like your cup of tea, Guys and Dolls is well worth seeing.