Christmas and country music were made for each other. Sure, the classics — from Dolly Parton’s “Hard Candy Christmas” to Merle Haggard’s “If We Make It Through December” — still define the season, but ...

NEW ORLEANS — When you think about music in New Orleans — you probably think of jazz or blues, or maybe funk and bounce. Christmas carols? Not so much. But many musicians in New Orleans have deep ...

Cher closed out the final Saturday Night Live of 2025 with two tracks from her 2023 Christmas album. The pop icon, who had been an SNL musical guest only once before, opened with the up-tempo “DJ Play ...

“White Christmas” might be the best-selling Christmas song ever, but the song’s backstory has less to do with tidings of comfort and joy than it does with the tragedy of loss and war. Written by ...

Whether or not you consider Wham!'s "Last Christmas" a gay song depends on how you see its lyrics and its creator. The 1984 Wham! song “Last Christmas” has become a regular holiday favorite among ...

Brenda Lee released plenty of songs throughout her country music career. Lee was only 11 years old when her debut “Jambalaya (On The Bayou)” came out in 1956, kicking off a career that would ...

In November 1979, Paul McCartney was working on a special new album, McCartney II, which would mark the second-greatest shift in his career. But before he released the album, he gave fans a little ...

Christmas music is part of the holiday business for retailers. After all, the songs include dozens of classics that most people have heard every winter for their entire lives. Sentimental, sure, but ...

To celebrate the holidays, we’re looking back at four archive Fresh Air interviews discussing popular Christmas songs: First, jazz singer Mel Torme tells Terry Gross about co-writing “The Christmas ...

(KTAL/KMSS) — Classic holiday favorites continue to dominate the Billboard charts each Christmas season, with a mixture of decades-old hits and more recent releases ranking as the most played holiday ...