Melanie A. Davis

These opening lines from 1973 country hits still give me goosebumps up and down my arms, no matter how many times I listen to them.

When her record label showed her the artwork for her 1970 compilation album, Joan Baez noticed two glaring absences.

Townes Van Zandt ended up making a cameo appearance in the music video for a 1983 version of a song he recorded years earlier.

Two of Joni Mitchell's biggest musical influences as a child couldn't sound more different from one another.

Emmylou Harris was able to salvage "Even Cowgirls Get The Blues" from a failed recording session with two other super stars in the late 70s.

Neil Young used to drive a modified hearse while gigging out in Canada in the early 1960s. This 1976 track eulogized this eccentric ride.

Thin Lizzy credits the success of "The Boys Are Back In Town" to two radio stations in Louisville, Kentucky.

"Down Under" was a massive hit for Men At Work. But nearly three decades after it was released, the song came back to bite the band.

These female country songs from the 50s and 60s take the shrinking violet stereotypes and squashes it right down into the dirt.

These 1980s pop and rock hits might have performed well without their music videos, but the videos pushed the songs to the next level.