From folk laments to industrial assaults, these 21 tracks serve as the definitive sonic frontline against the machinery of ...
The hippies have become a punch line, but by fusing their political convictions to a broader cultural identity they found something that we seem to have lost, Jay Caspian Kang writes.
Merle Haggard followed his patriotic hit "Okie From Muskogee" with "The Fightin' Side of Me", which hit NO. 1 o 1970.
The First National Touring company of “Some Like It Hot” is onstage, 7 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday, 1:30 and 7 p.m. Thursday, 8 ...
A powerful country song that captured the tensions of its time climbed to the top of the charts on this day in 1970. Merle ...
On the March 12 episode of HBO’s The Pitt, titled “4:00 PM,” the hectic medical drama saw the good doctors of Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center’s emergency room deal with the fallout of a slide ...
Prolonged war looms as White House seeks to dominate. Creatives respond with protest songs. Will Congress fail to represent the people?
There is nothing unusual in the music industry for an artist to be known for only one song. And that was/is the case with Country Joe McDonald (the leader of the sixties group Country Joe and the ...
Paris Davis' was among the first Black men to lead green berets. His service in Vietnam would earn him the medal of honor, only it took nearly 60 years for him to receive the award.
After the 1960s, he worked for various U.S. veterans’ causes in addition to his decades-long performing arts career.
Country Joe McDonald’s 2007 Hippiefest concert in San Diego took a delightfully unexpected turn when a mother duck and her ...
Country Joe McDonald, who became a Woodstock festival legend and fronted the band Country Joe and the Fish in the 1960s, has ...