A singer, composer, and actor, Lyle Lovett has broadened the definition of American music in a career that spans 14 albums.  Coupled with his gift for storytelling, the Texas-based musician […]

At an early age, perhaps due to her Kentucky roots and natural inflection, Emily Portman was told that she “sounded a lot like” country music legend, Loretta Lynn.  Emily pored […]

Donny Osmond has been a singer, actor, triple-threat television series host (talk show, game show, variety show), best-selling author (his autobiography entered the UK bestseller chart at #1), commercial spokesman, […]

Melissa Etheridge stormed onto the American rock scene in 1988 with the release of her critically acclaimed self-titled debut album.  For several years, her popularity grew around such memorable originals […]

Ted Nugent has carved a permanent place in rock & roll history as the ultimate guitar-shredding showman, selling more than 40 million albums, performing over 6,500 high-octane live shows, and […]

Known as “The American Band,” Grand Funk Railroad originated in Flint, Michigan in 1969.  As one of the top selling rock groups of the ‘70s, Grand Funk Railroad is well […]

Born and raised in a working class suburb of St. Louis, Shawn Barker took a schoolboy love for singing in church with his family and turned it into a career, […]

The Beach Boys are one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful bands of all time.  For more than six decades, The Beach Boys’ music has been an indelible […]

The structure of Doo Wop music, popular in the 1950s and ‘60s, generally featured a tenor lead vocalist singing the melody of a song with a trio or quartet singing background […]