Glen Campbell’s “Gentle On My Mind” has a polished production that was typically reserved for the easy-listening genre in this decade. Though his guitar playing and slight twang keep this hit in the ...
Cars pulled up to the parking lot in front of Mount Rushmore in the 1960s.A.C. Shelton/ClassicStock/Getty Images American families loaded up their station wagons and hit the road in the mid-20th ...
In the 1960s, country music was emerging solidly as its own genre, drawing from the earlier influences of gospel, bluegrass, traditional Mexican music, Appalachian sounds and more. As Nashville ...
Want to go back to the golden era of country music? Some might argue that the 1970s were the best time for country music, but there’s something to be said about the 1960s, too. Let’s take a look at a ...
He was falling apart. Brilliant and tortured, devout and driven, Johnny Cash had been discovered in the Memphis of Sun Records–the musical milieu that gave America Elvis Presley–and had built a career ...
PORT TOWNSEND — The 1960s musicians who still are touring often present nostalgia acts, playing a familiar selection of their hits that is designed to make the audience open its wallets. Country Joe ...
Country music is known for its icons, from Merle Haggard to Willie Nelson to Loretta Lynn and many more. As soon as you hear their names, you can “hear” their one-of-a-kind voices, individual styles ...
Noorat is small town 3km north of my home town of Terang in Western Victoria. And its annual show had everything! Crowds on a scale we’d never seen elsewhere, wood-chopping competitions, equestrian ...
Before the MGM Grand occupied the space just north of the Tropicana, it was a golf course played by high-rollers and celebrities performing at the resort and other showrooms on the Strip. The course’s ...
A 1960s pop song, a must-have soft toy and a global anime hit are among the leaders on YouTube's year-end trends list.