If you're looking to dive into classic country music, these songs from some of the genre's most celebrated artists are great starting points.

Frankie Avalon- Venus (#46): The original, from 1959, was Avalon's best song, and was recorded in nice stereo. This is an ...

You can kind of understand why. The song’s writer, Hoyt Axton, didn’t even like it very much. At least not in the form it was in when Three Dog Night first encountered it. Axton liked his ...

Hoyt Axton- When the Morning Comes (#54): A very amiable "good ol' boy" song from the writer of Three Dog Night's Joy To The World and many other notable songs. This could have charted higher ...

Richard “Blitz” Livoni began playing guitar at the age of eight and continued through college, eventually opening for the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Hoyt Axton, Tim Buckley, Jackson Browne ...

"Ten songs ranging from Beatlesque pop to the heaviness ... Original Brain Police drummer Tony Johnson later played with Hoyt Axton, Mary Wells, Commander Cody, Maria Muldaur, and others.

But then, also like some of us, perhaps you look back on the wealth of phenomenal songs the year gave us, and suddenly it’s: Come back, ’24, all is forgiven. Whether it was an unusually great ...

Pierre Antoine Hoyt Jr. of Binghamton, NY passed away unexpectedly Saturday, January 18, 2025. Pierre worked many years designing and overseeing the installation of truss systems in commercial and ...

“People in Power,” as the song’s title translates in English, has become the unofficial anthem of a mass uprising that has consumed this southern African nation over the past few ...