Johnny Cash was born on February 26, 1932, in Kingsland, Arkansas, into a poor farming family during the Great Depression. He worked in the U.S. Air Force, where he started writing songs, and later ...

Robert Mann, author of "You Are My Sunshine," recently spoke at the Rotary Club of Alexandria about the iconic song's history. Ray Charles's rendition of "You Are My Sunshine" helped disassociate it ...

One-hit wonders are meant to get stuck in time, to become confined to the year the artist and song hit their peaks. Occasionally, a rare gem transcends those borders; a track that finds legs outside ...

When I was a kid, I loved Paul McCartney to distraction. He was my first crush, my doe-eyed androgynous masculine ideal — goofy in Beatles movies, unabashedly feelingful in their songs, sexy in that ...

One of Hunter Hayes‘s earliest steady gigs was playing at a small theater in his hometown of Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, and one of his go-to crowd pleasers was the cheerful sing-a-long “You Are My ...

The commendably fired-up young New York band Charly Bliss released Guppy, their excellent debut album, a few weeks ago. But when they played the Brooklyn venue Baby’s All Right last night, it was ...

More than 600,000 people have died in the U.S. from COVID-19 since the pandemic hit this country and the world just over a year ago. NPR is remembering some of those who lost their lives by listening ...

LeBron James' NBA career began 16 years before TikTok started to gain worldwide popularity, but the Lakers star has lasted long enough to see himself become a star on the social media platform — just ...