Smithsonian Magazine

Bob Dylan’s Original Typewritten Draft Lyrics for ‘I’m Not There’ Have Been Rediscovered After More Than Half a Century

For decades, eager fans could only hear the obscure song on bootleg vinyl recordings. The draft lyrics, which were found ...

Granderson: If you keep listening, Prince's lyrics will keep teaching

The songwriter's wisdom and observations reverberate more than the sexual innuendos he initially was known for.
American Songwriter

The 1967 Johnny Cash Poem About June Carter Cash That Brad Paisley Turned Into a Song 50 Years Later

It felt very spiritual to do," said Brad Paisley of transforming one of Johnny Cash's poems into a song. "It felt like Johnny ...

Daughter of Missing Woman In Bahamas Speaks Out, Revisits Boat Where Mom and Stepfather Lived

In a Dateline exclusive, Karli Aylesworth visited the boat where the couple lived together for the first time since her ...

Train’s Singer Is Okay With Your ‘Drops of Jupiter’ Jokes

But when Pat Monahan, lead singer and songwriter of Train, wrote the song in 2001 because the band’s record label was worried ...