The tale of a one-armed Cajun alligator hunter may not be the most obvious subject for a song,...
Like so many country, folk and blues songs, the origins of Streets of Laredo, or Cowboy's Lament as...
Crawlin' King Snake is, of course, another of the great Delta Blues standards whose origins are more than...
Instant Karma is tainted for many as the track that saw the official demise of The Beatles. But...
I used to think of country as right wing nut jobs in big hats and spangley shirts singing...
This T-shirt pays homage to one of American original Johnny Cash's greatest recordings - 'A Boy Named Sue'....
When you record something as culturally significant as "At Folsom Prison" then it takes serious balls to try...
Johnny Cash may have played in prison, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and Waylon Jennings certainly had their brushes...
Written by the Long Haired Redneck, David Allan Coe but it was Johnny Paycheck that made it a...
"They Paved Paradise & Put Up A Parking Lot". Joni Mitchell may have written it about Hawaii, but...
Lots of songs are full of great advice, but The Gambler has country's most enduring nuggets of handy...
The Animals' House Of The Rising of the earliest and finest examples of a bunch of white English...
Kris Kristofferson has had one hell of a career, a bona fide country legend and songwriter that turned...
While we will never know the true ground zero for the traditional folk song, The Maid Freed from...
Like so many songs from the early days of the blues, Salty Dog Blues doesn't really have an...
To the country music community, the Marty Robbins' signature song, El Paso is a genre-busting classic that helped...
Like so many pioneering women blues singers such as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Memphis Minnie is all too often...