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Following a string of albums deconstructing Lambchop’s sound, Kurt Wagner continues to reinvent his band, this time using MIDI-assisted piano melodies to write love songs to music itself.

Glen Campbell is an American original, and his story is just as legendary as his top songs. Campbell's inspirational rags to riches story — from his troubled addiction to personal redemption — was shared with the world. While he was on our radios every day and in our living rooms each week, he was making the soundtrack to our lives with many more than these 10 Iconic Glen Campbell Songs. The "Rhinestone Cowboy" made such an impact that he topped all the major charts, won audiences from all walks of life and conquered the movies, and his television show,  The Glen Cambpell Goodtime Hour...

Happy birthday in Heaven, Glen Campbell! The singer was born on this day, April 22, in 1936. Campbell was born the seventh of 12 children to John Campbell, a sharecropper, and his wife Carrie. After his uncle, known as "Boo," taught Campbell to play the guitar as a child, the future star relocated to Albuquerque, N.M., as a teenager, to play in his uncle's band. In 1958, Campbell formed his own band, the Western Wranglers, and in 1960, he relocated to Los Angeles to become a session musician. Campbell's debut album, Big Bluegrass Special, was released in 1962 on Capitol Records, but it only...

One of the more impressive sights in the Country Music Hall of Fame is the cluster of 11 Grammy Awards credited to Roger Miller, the first country act to shake up the awards show scene as a crossover star. The artist won all 11 in a mere two years (1965 and 1966), off the strength of his critical and commercial hits “Dang Me” and “King of the Road.” Prior to Miller’s run of Grammy Awards success, country singers competed with popular folk artists for just one award: Best Country & Western Single. Winners of the lone country-specific trophy in the all-genre awards show’s first s...

Last modified on Fri 19 Feb 2021 08.27 EST 20. By the Time I Get to Phoenix/I Say a Little Prayer (1977) The live album A Man and A Woman is both delightful and slightly odd: Warwick dueting with Isaac Hayes, who had just had a hit with a paen to troilism called Moonlight Lovin’ (Ménage à Trois). Its solitary single isn’t a medley, more an attempt to bind two songs together as a call-and-response. It works. 19. Keepin’ My Head Above Water (1977) Why Warwick couldn’t get a hit for most of the 70s is an intriguing question, particularly given the singles she was puttin...