We believe that the traditions and practices embedded in these three folk songs have profoundly changed how we view lyrics.

On this day (January 14) in 2022, songwriter Dallas Frazier died from stroke-related complications in Gallatin, Tennessee, at the age of 82. His writing credits include some of the biggest country ...

The English language is full of words that seem overstuffed with unnecessary letters, feel like they should be spelled a different way, or just don't make sense. Here are some of our favorites, ...

To Walker, folk is “storytelling of communal and/or cultural struggle.” Or cultural experience. He looked back at Black ...

‘Sundar Mundriye, ho! Tera kon vichara, ho? Dulla Bhatti wala, ho…!’ Every winter, as bonfires crackle and peanuts, jaggery and popcorn are tossed into the flames, this chorus rises across Punjab and ...

In a year when Taylor Swift took up an atmosphere’s worth of media oxygen (sorry), artists large and small continued the long trudge uphill, attempting to stand out in an increasingly crowded field.

What makes up the country music genre? Answer: Country music is a musical genre originating from rural parts of the southern regions across the U.S. It is famous in cities like Nashville, Memphis, ...

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