Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s recording of Jerry Jeff Walker’s “Mr. Bojangles” was a hit back in 1970. The group came together in the late 1960s, but their 1970s albums like The Dirt Band and Will The ...

You might remember Bobbie Gentry from her 1967 hit “Ode To Billie Joe”. After that hit, she enjoyed fame well into the 1970s and became known for her haunting, gorgeous voice. She was also quite a ...

We’re getting on in our look back at seminal songs from the 1970s (a tongue twister if ever there was one). We’ve been going by genre and have considered rock, glam, funk, punk, and country to this ...

When discussing the best classic rock songs of every year of the 1970s, it's impossible not to mention songs like "Layla" and ...

The 1970s gave us some incredible music and with this list we're going to take a look at the best of the best where rock is concerned. These are the songs you'd considered "god-tier" out of everything ...

From glam to punk, prog to soul, the 1970s defined the album era – here are the decade’s standout releases, year by year.

I grew up in the 1970s. The radio was always on – AM early in the decade and FM by the end. I pedaled my bike to the record store to buy 45s, and then when I was old enough, drove my car to the same ...

They are one of the longest-running classic rock bands and have countless hit songs. And yet to this day, Styx can still be misunderstood. Thanks to such classics as the ballad "Babe" or the soft folk ...

Folk originates from the German word "volk," which means "the people." And that's what folk is at its core: from the people, documented and shared with individual experience in mind. The late 19th ...

When people think of folk music as a genre, there are certain entertainers that come to mind: Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell and Pete Seeger to name a few. But the truth is, folk’s influence was ...