Hank Williams Nicknamed His Baby Son After a Ventriloquist’s Dummy. 37 Years Later, the Son Answered With a Song
The song is “My Name Is Bocephus,” and Hank Williams Jr. wrote it by himself for his 1986 album Montana…
The Song That Came Back When Toby Keith Said Goodbye
On February 5, 2024, Toby Keith died peacefully, surrounded by his family. He was 62. He had been fighting stomach…
Honkytonk Man: The Song Marty Robbins Never Got to Hear Climb the Charts
Marty Robbins died on December 8, 1982, at 57. One week later, moviegoers watched him walk up to a microphone…
The Song That Came Back: Lew DeWitt and “Flowers on the Wall”
In 1994, millions of moviegoers watched Bruce Willis’s character in Pulp Fiction sit behind the wheel of a car and…
The Song the World Played When Kris Kristofferson Said Goodbye
Kris Kristofferson died on Saturday, September 28, 2024, at his home in Maui, with his family around him. He was…
The Goodbye Song: Why Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You” Finally Reached the Hot 100 After She Died
On Tuesday, August 25, 2026, Dolly Parton died peacefully in Nashville at the age of 80. Her nephew, Bryan Seaver,…
The Song That Said Goodbye: Why Radio Kept Playing Conway Twitty’s “Hello Darlin'” the Morning He Died
On the morning of June 5, 1993, country radio had news nobody wanted to read on air. Conway Twitty was…
The Song Johnny Cash Left Behind: Why the World Pressed Play on “Hurt” After He Was Gone
On September 12, 2003, the news came out of Nashville: Johnny Cash, the Man in Black, had died at 71.…
Jackson Browne Wrote His Little Boy a Song About Looking After His Mother. By the Time It Came Out, She Was Gone
When Jackson Browne released The Pretender in November 1976, his son Ethan turned three the same month. The first song…
Feeling Mortal: The Kris Kristofferson Song Recorded While His Memory Was Being Misread
The answer is “Feeling Mortal”, the title song and opening track of the album Kris Kristofferson released in January 2013…