Growing up poor and raised by a single mother, Merle Haggard also connected to the song, and months before Parton released her version, he featured the song first on his 1968 album Mama Tried.

When The Knack started, I wrote songs about girls,” the late frontman told me in 2008. “I think girls is really what rock’n’roll is about.” Indeed, every song on the band’s 1979 debut album Get The ...

During a sit down with students at the Berklee College of Music in 2008, Taylor revealed how he wrote songs, which wasn’t a very uniform process. “I play guitar and musical things come out ...

Flack won two Grammys for "Killing Me Softly with His Song": record of the year and best pop vocal performance, female in ...

In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, Lucy Dacus admits the "most revealing" song on 'Forever Is a Feeling' is about Julien ...

The ACLU warned "we’re getting very close to" a "constitutional crisis" after Trump carried out deportations despite a ...

A list of 20 of the best songs from studio albums released by Bob Dylan from the year 2000 onward, ranked by UCR.

Swift began writing songs as a teenager and often drew inspiration from her real life. She said she wrote the song “Picture to Burn” about a boy she knew. “The guy I wrote this song about ...

Inside the lyrics of Dolly Parton's new song, "If You Hadn't Been There," is a sweet message to her late husband Carl Dean.

Dolly Parton, who announced the death of her husband Carl Dean March 3, detailed how she is dealing with the loss of her ...

Semisonic has spoken out against the White House for using its 1998 hit 'Closing Time' in a deportation video posted to ...

Paul McCartney and John Lennon wrote the vast majority of The Beatles' songs and were the driving creative force behind the band's success. Their contrasting styles, moods and approaches often met ...