He does not want to be buried out in these wild lands -- in the lone prairie -- as the song says.

VOA: special.2010.03.25

It means to travel or to leave a place, as suggested in this song, "Hit the Road."

VOA: special.2009.09.20

His name is Woody Guthrie. He is singing a song about men who look for work as they travel from town to town.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

Amy Speace describes one of her songs as a protest song, but more of a story with the protest quietly built into it.

VOA: special.2009.07.27

As a young performer, he had a song and dance act with partners for a while.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

Usher discovered him. As the rhythm and blues star tells it, when they first met, Justin sang him an Usher song -- and sang it better.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

Often,they sang about the long ride to the cattle markets where the cows were sold for beef, as in this song called, "Git Along Little Dogie."

VOA: special.2010.03.25

Listen to these lines from "Song of Myself": And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

Listen as Todd Duncan sings the title song from "Lost in the Stars."

VOA: special.2010.03.07

Listen as he skillfully delivers the words in the song "Casa Bey."

VOA: special.2009.07.24

Then they listened as she sang another song about America.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

Listen as he plays a Flamenco song called "Jerez."

VOA: special.2010.05.12

She was known as America's first lady of song.

VOA: special.2010.07.04

The National Recording Preservation Board describes the song as a moving tribute to both Tupac's mother and mothers everywhere.

VOA: standard.2010.07.08

David feels so strongly, that as a rapper, he's written a song about politicians and the gulf.

VOA: standard.2010.06.19

She is also married to composer Mike Stoller, part of the famous song-writing duo Leiber and Stoller, who wrote such classic rock hits as Elvis Presley's Hound Dog.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

Included on her latest album So In Love is a three-song tribute to Cole Porter, as well as her jazzy interpretations of The Beatles' "Golden Slumbers" and the Willie Nelson classic,"Crazy."

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

and went on to sell more than 100,000 copies of the song at a time when there were only about That song is regarded as the first-ever country music hit, and Loudon Wainwright performs it under the title "The Deal" on his Grammy-nominated CD.

VOA: standard.2010.01.24