The Charlie Daniels Bandcertainly proved their storytelling credentials in 1979 when they put their own Southern country-fied spin on the old "deal with the devil" fable. Backed by some fast and furious fiddles, "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" tells the tale of a young musician named Johnn...
Yoko Ono, experimenting with harder and harder drugs. That might explain the lack of attention span displayed here and elsewhere. Unlike ‘Bungalow Bill,’‘Warm Gun’ at least has two halves of a great song in here. Shame they ended up mashed together. ...
“It wasn’t until a year after the surgery that I started getting really pissed,” she said in a 2020 interview with Women's Health. "Like, ‘Wait a minute, I lost a week of my life every month of every year since I was 13 because of this sh*t, and I could have had this oper...
Just seven years later, McEntire lost several of her band members in a plane crash, a tragedy that led her to create the award-winning albumFor My Broken Heartin dedication to the friends and loved ones she lost. The list of awards, singles, and albums is seemingly endless for this incre...
A five-time GRAMMY nominee, Bocelli has released over 15 albums, and is also known for his ability to record unforgettable collaborations with artists from across the globe. The intensity of his vision illuminates every single track of the recently releasedDuets, a two-disc co...
They felt like fix-ups, but without a framing narrative or much in the way of a link between the constituent parts. But The Rift is coherent whole, from start to finish. It has an interesting plot, which it not only fails to resolve but presents several possible mutually-exclusive endings...
Some people lose a lot of their accent when they sing, but not Bob Marley. His Jamaican cadence came through strongly in his music, and there might not be a better example of this than with 1978's "Stir It Up." Some listeners heard "stir it up, little darling, stir it up" as "...
It might be surprising to see the Rolling Stones' guitarist tied with the band's singer; however, Keith Richards is also a primary songwriter and earns a significant cut from thehundreds of millions of albums the Stones have soldin the past 60 years. Like Mick Jagger, Richards has also ben...
Some people lose a lot of their accent when they sing, but not Bob Marley. His Jamaican cadence came through strongly in his music, and there might not be a better example of this than with 1978's "Stir It Up." Some listeners heard "stir it up, little darling, stir it up" as "...
occasion – but Sting has never lost his ability to craft an engrossing tune. "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free,”“We’ll Be Together,” "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You" and “Desert Rose” are just some of his many solo hits, while seven of his albums have achieved platin...