The soundtrack in my head is Roy Orbison singing "It's over, it's ooooooover," and it doesn't matter that the "it" for him was a love affair and not a college app. Plaintive heartbreak is plaintive heartbreak, and any parent or senior obsessed enough to have invested wholeheartedly in the college application process is experiencing a profound post-deadline adrenaline deficit. Read More
Roy Orbison made it a standard of his forever when he recorded it, but Willie Nelson wrote his lovely Christmas song, "Pretty Paper," about a guy I knew slightly. Read More
'Empty Vessels' , the Roots -featuring re-working of their song 'No Kind Words' , will be one of five extra songs added to the reissued album, which is out on February 1. Read More
She is one of many thousands of songwriters associated with country music and Nashville. Read More
This opening track to 2009's Fall Be Kind EP features an airy, layered, Disneyfied beginning that feels like an overture, and a spirited folk round in the second half. Read More
One of the victims was stabbed by a Hell's Angel. Read More
Although he shared the same rockabilly roots as Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley, Read the full Roy Orbison bio.