Richards has described listening to Muddy Waters for the first time as "the most powerful music I had ever heard – the most expressive." Jagger, meanwhile, once said this music "seemed the most real ...

The 1950s brings to mind poodle skirts, sock hops, and drive-in movies. I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, and Leave It to Beaver were popular television shows, and Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and ...

Williams famously had good luck at Nashville’s Castle Studio. The opulent, aptly castle-like studio helped the country singer deliver his first hit, “Move It on Over.” He returned to the studio on ...

Since the early 1900s, blues musicians have performed in Shreveport. In the late 1950s, bigger name acts began performing in town while the 1960s saw the development of local record labels such as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But, not everyone enjoyed the same freedoms during this era. Many of the songs in the 1950s hinted at the simmering racial tension ...