How a 1962 Country Hit Broke Barriers and Became an All-Time Great Love Song

"I Can't Stop Loving You" hit the top of the Billboard music charts on June 2, 1962. The song remained on the charts for an ...

60 greatest rocksteady personalities (60 – 46)

While never revered as ska, roots-reggae or dancehall, rocksteady is arguably the most loved of the Jamaican music forms. The genre, which produced a series of top-flight vocalists, harmony groups and ...
American Songwriter

Born on This Day in 1920, One Half of the Husband and Wife Songwriting Duo Behind the Tennessee State Song and Hits From Country’s First Female Superstar

One hundred six years ago today, one-half of the husband and wife duo who became the first full-time songwriters in Nashville ...
High Country News

Learning to two-step at a queer country bar

Columnist Miles Griffis reflects on the history of queer country dance and its importance to the gay community at a two-step lesson.

1964 Classic Ranked ‘Most Memorable Breakup Song’ of All Time

Originally published back in February 2020 but updated last Tuesday, Yardbarker released what they think are the 25 most ...
American Songwriter

The Classic 1980s Country Track That Should Have Gone to Marty Robbins, if He Were Alive (And the Surprising Artist It Went to Instead)

With no Marty Robbins to cover "Seven Spanish Angels" Columbia's Billy Sherrill settled for a different star-studded feature.