Born JoAnne Deborah Byron in 1947 into a family of strivers in Queens, she split her time between her mother’s home in New ...

“The rhythm was a John Lee Hooker riff that we sort of straightened out. It wasn’t copied, it was inspired. You only get in ...

These four country songs, all out in the early 1980s, helped transform the entire genre of country music, for the better.

The real-life tragedy that inspired "Whiskey Lullaby" is the reason this song came close to never being written in the first ...