These three songs were all big country hits in 1974, even though hardly anyone remembers them, 51 years later.

I’ve been writing about music history for many years now, and one thing remains true: The best music tends not to make it high on the charts, if at all. Let’s take a quick dive into just three stellar ...

To herald the coming of the boxed set, the label issued a previously unreleased performance of “Forever Young” on Tuesday, taken from an afternoon show in Seattle on Feb. 9, 1974. (Several of the sets ...

In a year of glitter, grit and genre-bending singles, a handful of tracks clung to the peak as the rest shuffled. The charts in 1974 moved at a dizzying pace. Yet a small group of songs managed to ...

His wife was supposed to sing it. George McCrae’s own music career had languished in Palm Beach clubs, in what might be thought of as an upscale chitlin’ circuit. At the time, he was about to go back ...

In May 2021, during an interview with Clive Davis, Joni Mitchell reflected on negative reviews she’s received over the years. “I thought, why is it that people are so hard on this stuff? Well, I guess ...