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Guest post by Nathan Arizona “Barbara Allen” is the best known of all the old ballads, its different versions collected more than any other folk song by preservers of the…

The execution of Renee Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross has shocked and horrified everyone but MAGAts and their enablers, but I'm still impressed by how fast modern protest singer…

Trump's desecration of the Department of Justice faces more roadblocks than most targets of his crime spree, if only because many federal judges – even Trump judges – are trying…

Everybody who's anybody is cancelling gigs at the former Kennedy Center these days. The latest artist to join the honor roll: Bela Fleck, probably the world's most famous banjo player.…

The signs are obvious – the drooping right side of his face, his slack right-handed salute, his inability to flip a coin at the Army-Navy game – but the strongest…

I could dedicate this song to Trump, but the real reason for setting aside my aversion to Billy Joel is that he sang in public Friday for the first time…

This song, a No. 5 hit for the American Breed in 1968, was prophetically titled – several bands covered it in the '60s, and it sounded different each time. Credited…

When I think of Mummers string bands, I imagine the string bands of my childhood – masses of banjos in parade formation, supplemented by saxophones and glockenspiels, all played by…

Yesterday for Song of the Day I related the story of Serge Gainsbourg's disastrous first date with Brigitte Bardot, who was married at the time, and how she told him…

Brigitte Bardot, who died Sunday at 91, owed her sex kitten image to the movies she made in the '50s and '60s, but her ambition, and the monetization of her…

Stephen Miller, the illegitimate child of Nosferatu and Joseph Goebbels, caused a stir the other day when he tweeted, “Watched the Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas with my…