guess. In the meantime, “Texas Hold ’Em” went to number one on theBillboardcountry chart, marking the first time in history that a Black woman had topped that chart. It was not her firstforayinto country music; in 2016 she performed her song “Daddy Lessons” with theDixie Chicks(now...
James Taylor wrote the beautiful folk song, “Fire & Rain,” back in 1970 and its fires of popularity still burn strong today. Of course, “Light My Fire” by The Doors made our list of the best songs about fire, as did the Johnny cash hit, “Ring of Fire.” Some of the fire so...
During the 1930s a number of “singing cowboy”filmstars, of whomGene Autrywas the best known, took country music and with suitably altered lyrics made it into asyntheticand adventitious “western” music. A second and moresubstantivevariant of country music arose in the 1930s in the Texas-...
his most intimate song. “What A Wonderful World” was a reflective, hopeful number that yearned for optimism in an increasingly fragile world. Armstrong, suffering from a heart condition, pleaded for his audience to find the simple pleasures in life, and celebrate them with him one last time...
An elderly couple from Texas, their case made headlines when they went missing after a fiddling festival in 1997. Fastball lead singer Tony Scalzo remembered, Right away this story sort of struck me. I just started getting these ideas: maybe they don’t want to be found, maybe they’re...
i'll be picking and singing these songs for you in high texas there's a dance on friday then we'll head out west on o two ninety saturday night you just just might find me as far as new mexico well it's safe to say we can get around bring country music to your western town lor...
Our list of the 40 Songs With Titles Not in the Lyrics isn't conclusive; it couldn't be. There are plenty more songs that don't mention their titles in the lyrics, many of them by the same artists you'll see below. We picked some of our favorites to keep the list manageable."...
Beyoncé, ‘Texas Hold ‘Em’ 2024 Kevin Mazur/Getty Images Released in February 2024 but already a game changer, Beyoncé’s“Texas Hold ‘Em” became the first record by a Black woman ever to debut atop theBillboardHot Country Songs chart. Will it prove consequential in other ways, too,...
Yolanda Adams, who was born in Houston, Texas, in 1961, is one of the most influential gospel singers around – partly down to the 10 million record sales she has racked up around the world, but also because she hosts a nationally syndicated television show. In 1983, for the albumSave ...
Texas native Milligan teams with duo The Reklaws for this hard-charging, rousing track. The song centers on a guy questioning a potential lover’s country bona fides (“Was there dust on your driveway … did your daddy drive a tractor?”), before deciding that no matter her origin story...