Keith Urban earned his 22nd No. 1 hit with "Blue Ain't Your Color," the fourth single -- and fourth chart-topping song -- from his 2016 album Ripcord. The tune, written by Hillary Lindsey, Clint ...

On June 23, David Brooks published an article on The Atlantic website entitled “Bruce Springsteen’s Playlist for the Trump Era.”Brooks introduced the article thusly: “This is a moment of tumult, anger ...

Keith Urban scored one of the biggest hits of a long career with "Blue Ain't Your Color," earning a CMA Awards 2017 nomination for Song of the Year. Urban deserves to win, for reasons we'll explore ...

Billie Holiday recorded her iconic version of Strange Fruit on 20 April 1939. Eighty years on – in the first of our Songs that Made History series – Aida Amoako explores how a poem about lynching ...

The story behind the song "Strange Fruit" is well-known. Shocked by a postcard bearing a photograph of the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abraham Smith in Marion, Ind., Bronx schoolteacher Abel Meeropol ...