There is a second form of sacred survival: to survive as a nation. And that too takes precedence over everything.

Michael Goldsmith sees clear similarities between writing songs and writing sermons. Both, he says, “work within a framework” ...

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From Groundhog Day to hogging the cookies, Rochester-based songwriter Pat Egan seems to have written tunes about more subjects than seems possible. He guesses he’s written about 700 songs and still ...

This folk song was not only a chance for Woody Guthrie to air his grievances; it was the moment he became a name no one would soon forget.

Putting together a perfect album is incredibly tricky. Even these classics are one song too long, as certain tracks don't fit in.

This year, two arena-filling artists returned to the older civic function of song. Bruce Springsteen’s “Streets of Minneapolis” and U2’s elegiac “American Obituary,” written in response to immigration ...

Bob Dylan’s 1975 classic Blood on the Tracks captures heartbreak and poetic fury in one of the greatest and most emotionally raw albums ever recorded.

There would have been no John Lennon without Elvis Presley, but there was one song that made Lennon turn his back on the ...

Suffs” looks at the peak of the epic and heroic campaign to ratify the 19th amendment, which guaranteed women the right to vote in 1920 — it plays March 17-29 at the Emerson Colonial ...

Legendary French singer Edith Piaf believed lyrics, not just music, bring songs to life. Her powerful voice, honed by a life ...

In groups big and small, AACM reedist Ed Wilkerson has combined the joyous immediacy of early jazz with the daring collisions of the avant-garde.