God Bless the Child.” “I’ll Be Seeing You.” And of course, “Strange Fruit.” Ten writers and musicians share what they love ...

Guitarists Doug Lancio and Bob Britt were given fewer — and barely any — solo opportunities. Lancio unleashed his blues fury ...

The new track is a banger with pounding hip-hop drums and her trademark country twang, while the lyrics take a look at the ...

Celebrate “Musical Nationalism – Sharing Our Musical Identities” with the Orlando Concert Band. Featuring the music of Franz Strauss, Jean Sibelius, Gioachino Rossini, Morton Gould, and others. 7 p.m.

Its sweet lyrics, “He ain’t from where we’re from ... spent hours teaching her chords. Not long after, she injured her knee while doing cheer and was forced to recover in a wheelchair ...

Two gin and tonics arrive, and I recite the lyrics from “Pure Love,” sung ... one that requires many listens before it will reveal its beautiful secrets to you. Koze named it after a belief ...

Smokey Robinson was as beautiful as his voice ... That’s what gave his social-protest lyrics such a personal dimension. When you listen to “Freddie’s Dead,” off “Super Fly,” he ...

Perhaps one of the most political songs to feature in a mainstream musical, at first glance ‘America’ might have been a fun flamenco-inspired party song, but the lyrics are much deeper ...

In the US, Taylor was known for interviewing musicians on television, and coining the phrase “jazz is America’s classical ... about strings and different chords.” He hired in the arranger ...

The Damned were the first UK punk band to release a record, the first UK punk band to tour America, the first to split up (in ... Follow-up album Strawberries was even better: concise pop songs with ...

Ever since I was a young boy (many, many years ago, about 60) I would get a proud tear in my eye whenever we sang “America, the Beautiful” in school, church or wherever. The words hold power for me to ...