The Color Purple movie musical is set to hit theaters on December 25, infusing music into Alice Walker's classic story. The Color Purple first opened on Broadway in 2005, starring LaChanze in her Tony ...

With any musical, there’s also a challenge in how to blend music within dramatic, dialogue-heavy scenes. For “The Color Purple,” a reimagined take on the Alice Walker novel and quasi-adaptation of the ...

Jamey Johnson's "In Color" would be higher on this list of the Top Country Songs of the Century if it was based purely on artist and songwriter opinion. It's the most frequently named song, or at ...

Veteran music journalist Jake Brown spoke to a wide variety of the top songwriters in Nashville for his new book, 'Nashville Songwriter: The Inside Stories Behind Country Music’s Greatest Hits.' Brown ...

The Color Song has been sung by two different artists, Bryant Oden and Petra, each with a unique style. Bryant Oden is a singer-songwriter famous for silly and playful tunes like The Duck Song. His ...

Classic rock is a genre that welcomes all people—every color of the rainbow. For every type of person there is an artist or hit track that represents them. For that reason, we wanted to explore songs ...

Singer Rhiannon Giddens, a member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, a group specializing in old-timey music, just released her first solo album. On it is her amended cover of a well-known classic that ...

When New Zealand rockers Split Enz released ‘True Colours’ over 40 years ago, it completely shifted the course of their careers. The album not only scored the band’s first number ones in both ...