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Behind The Song

06.28.26

The Writer of This Massive Earth, Wind & Fire Hit Wrote It for Himself Instead

By Gayle Thompson
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06.28.26

Remembering When John Lennon Attempted To Make an Entire Country From Scratch (For the Second Time)

Anyone can be a citizen of Nutopia, even today.

By Melanie Davis
The List

06.28.26

3 Alt-Rock Songs From the 1990s You Won’t Forget No Matter When You Hear Them

By Jacob Uitti
The List

06.28.26

3 Songs That 70s Teens Loved That Modern Teens Might Love More

By Em Casalena
Behind The Song

06.28.26

Cher’s First Top 40 Hit Found Her Battling The Byrds in 1965

By Jim Beviglia
On This Day

06.28.26

On the Charts This Day in 2010, Miranda Lambert Held Firm at No. 1 With a Tearjerker Originally Meant for Blake Shelton

By Erinn Callahan
On This Day

06.28.26

Born 79 Years Ago Today, This Hit Songwriter Nearly Died in a Fire Before Writing Classics for Garth Brooks, Reba McEntire, and Randy Travis

By Clayton Edwards
The List

06.28.26

4 Songs That Set up the Neotraditional Country Boom of the 1990s

By Clayton Edwards
The List

06.28.26

3 Country Songs From 1979 That Every Small-Town Kid Still Knows by Heart

By Em Casalena
The List

06.28.26

3 Ominous Stevie Nicks Songs That Fans Are Still Trying To Decode

By Kat Caudill
The List

06.28.26

3 Members of Contemporary Folk Storytelling Royalty, and the Songs That Earned Them Their Crowns

By Alex Hopper
On This Day

06.28.26

32 Years Ago Today, Alan Jackson Released His Second No. 1 Album That Contained “The Most-Talked About Country Song of the Year”

By Erinn Callahan

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