Not all songs lead with words. Sometimes the power of a song is in its number, or numbers. Many songs have been arranged around a single-digit—”One” used by several artists throughout the past 50 ...

Randy Houser’s “Song Number 7” is probably the finest single representative of his Fired Up album. It’s a big country power ballad that leans progressive, but stops short of crossing a bridge that ...

It's a peculiar gift: To sing about sadness without sounding the slightest bit sad. The first time Neil Diamond got to #1, he did it with the drinking song "Cracklin' Rosie." That song had been ...