American Songwriter

3 Hit Songs From the 1970s That Were Written on the Road

Sometimes, the greatest songs are written outside of one's comfort zone. These hit 1970s songs were written while on the open ...
American Songwriter

3 Country Songs That Started Out as Jokes but Became Classics Anyway

Country songs aren’t always sappy and serious. In fact, there have been quite a few funny country songs to hit the airwaves ...

Country Joe McDonald, Whose Antiwar Song Became an Anthem, Dies at 84

One of the starring acts at Woodstock, he and his band, the Fish, came out of the Bay Area’s psychedelic rock scene. He went ...

How ‘Wanted! The Outlaws’ Became Country’s First Platinum Album — and a Movement for Outsiders

Marking 50 years of Wanted! The Outlaws, artists and historians revisit the compilation that transformed Waylon, Willie, Jessi and Tompall into country’s defining rebels.