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‘Shape-note singing’ echoes through Edwardsville’s Stephenson House

Bean, who also volunteers at the Stephenson House, was one of about a dozen people who spent part of the warm afternoon ...
American Songwriter

3 Story Songs from the 1970s That Have Gut-Punching Lyrical Twists

Who doesn’t love a good storytelling song? If you’re a fan of tunes with more musical and compositional elements that stand out, more power to you. But there’s something so magical about a song that ...
The Register Citizen

Without the song, 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' may have been largely forgotten

NASHOTAH, Wis. (AP) — Without Gordon Lightfoot's song, the Edmund Fitzgerald could have faded from memory along with the names of the roughly 6,500 other ships that went down in the Great Lakes before ...
American Songwriter

4 Alternative Rock Songs From the 90s That Should Have Been Hits

Once alternative rock became mainstream, record labels signed anyone with a guitar and a band photo shot with a fisheye lens. But in their defense, they got it right over and over again. There were so ...