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Metallica faced a difficult challenge in 1987. With their stopgap EP, The $5.98 EP: Garage Days Re-Revisited, they found that in order to move forward...

Etta James was a mere 17 when she had her first R&B success, in 1955, with “The Wallflower.” Her chart record immediately thereafter was up...

You may struggle to believe it, but at the height of the Summer Of Love, the haunting title track to Bobbie Gentry’s debut album, Ode To...

Over the more than 60 years that Kenny Rogers wrote songs, his trajectory defied any straightforward narrative. Yes, he’s a Country Music Hall of Famer;...

It would have been hard to imagine Kacey Musgraves becoming a crossover country star based on the sharp, understated songs she came on the scene...