A 400-year-old folk song about a drowned cabin boy came with immigrants from the British Isles to the New World, evolved, and was passed down by oral tradition in Appalachia. It settled there in Poor ...

At a time when streaming numbers have replaced album sales in determining music's popularity worldwide, the Billboard Global 200 chart has emerged as one of the most accurate metrics for measuring the ...

When an 8-year-old girl overheard her neighbor singing and playing guitar on his porch, she wanted to make a song request, but felt too shy to go up to him Natalie Hulec Back in April, an 8-year-old ...

Music has long been a beacon of light for the LGBTQ community, at times a call to celebration and other times a source of solace. The songs documenting the queer experience are as diverse as the ...

All the seasons have their virtue. But fall? Well, there's just something extra special about autumn. Perhaps it's changing of the leaves, the promise of the holidays ahead or the return of sweater ...

Mumford & Sons’ albums are celebrated widely, and the band’s album Babel won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year 2012. Below American Songwriter has complied Mumford & Sons’ top 10 greatest hits.