Original Features

The territory south of the Mason-Dixon Line has always been musically fertile.

The blues legend was 70 years old.

The genre completely transformed what rock and roll looked like.

From Bieber to Nugent, Carpenters to Ramones – the 40 greatest songs using music's most popular term of endearment.

These are projects that don't include the keyboardist's two main bands, the Allman Brothers and the Rolling Stones.

Many of them are still touring and releasing music today.

A playlist for while you plant.

In keeping with its era of great change, this LP reaches into the past while charging forward.

"I leave it in your capable hands," the note reads in part.

The history of popular music, told through the best songs of the past several decades.