Nobel-winning author Albert Camus once suggested that, in light of our living in an absurd universe, the only question worth considering was whether to go on. Folksinger Phil Ochs fearlessly - sometime …

While social criticism was Ochs' calling card, he occasionally threw off the straitjacket of protest songs. Who could have guessed that one of his most appealing and upbeat tunes would find its genesis …

Displaying a bounty of musical gifts that extends far beyond his role as the good-natured timekeeper who held together the world's most famous band, Ringo Starr has more than lived up to his adopted su …

Probably Starr's most famous vocal during his time with the Fab Four, "With a Little Help from My Friends" has taken on a life of its own as the theme for Ringo's All-Starr Band, which has boasted lite …

This assortment of Antonio Carlos Jobim basics is a virtual encyclopedia of bossa nova hits: there's "The Girl From Ipanema," of course, but also a seductive version of "Corcovado" by Sylvia Telles, a  …

So tell us what you want, what you really, really want, and we'll give you Ginger, Sporty, Scary, Baby, and Posh. Spice Girls seized their share of the world spotlight and more when they detonated the  …

No question, Mrs. Garth Brooks benefited from hitching her star to his, first as backup singer, then as opening act (while both were married to others). But Trisha Yearwood has a thoroughbred lurking i …

Because Yearwood is a song interpreter, rather than a singer-songwriter, her albums rise and fall on the quality of the tunes she chooses, and she has a nearly infallible ear. For instance, her unadorn …

With a velvet-lined whisper of a voice and a somewhat battered six-string guitar, a shy, black-clad, gangly youth named Nick Drake climbed awkwardly into the spotlight and mesmerized those lucky few in …