“After writing the first three chords, I knew something was happening,” Mick Jones recalled of the night in 1984 when he wrote the song that gave his band Foreigner their biggest hit. “I was writing ...

To hear that their heroic acts were almost erased from history by the branch of the U.S. Armed Forces they helped, is a slap in the face of Black America, says Bea Hines.

Ives, who lived from 1874 to 1954, scored variations “America (My Country, ‘Tis of Thee)” and other classical works. ISU history professor Alan Lessoff in a statement said Ives’ music ...

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. Watch Bailey perform her song Cobalt Blue by the sea. Bailey talks about living in St Ives and becoming a musician. What is the meaning of the song?

President-elect Donald Trump had one of the biggest names in country music performing at his swearing-in ceremony.

The country music star, who launched her career on ... the first inauguration of Mr Obama in 2009 saw Aretha Franklin perform My Country Tis Of Thee at the swearing-in, while the new president ...

By Xander Zellner Non-English-language music has a long history on Billboard’s charts. While, naturally, the U.S.-centered Billboard Hot 100 chart mostly contains songs recorded in English ...

(Saul Loeb/Pool photo via AP) Sewell also made references to “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee,” and “Free at Last,” two songs that King quoted during the famous “I Have a Dream” speech.

"We are grateful today that you would use our 47th president so we would sing with new meaning, 'our country 'tis of thee.' " The inauguration took place on MLK Day in the nation's capital.

ATLANTA — Stone Mountain unexpectedly got a reference during the presidential inauguration proceedings on Monday, as a pastor from Detroit referenced the Georgia landmark and city during the ...

A lot of country music is about leveling the playing field, relaxing into your roots. Garth Brooks’ “Friends In Low Places” is the epitome of that message. The opening line for this country ...