From east to west, and north to south, the US has produced some of the best songs in the world. And many of these tunes have been written about the nation itself. Or, more specifically, about the ...

He is Willie Nelson. And these are his 50 essential songs. Much of the fun in this rollicking, honky-tonk favorite is in its musical variation on “puff puff pass,” as Nelson intros the song then steps ...

The Massachusetts-based James Weldon Johnson Foundation, named after the poet, civil rights activist, and diplomat himself, ...