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Man, it was difficult to narrow this list down. There were a thousand musicians who stepped up and made statements musically ...
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the war ... song ever written. Jamaican superstar Jimmy Cliff’s heartbreaking lyrics center on two pieces of correspondence: a letter from a soldier ...
At a Mexican military base, Captain Eduardo Barrón picks up not a rifle but a microphone. Swaying boot-to-boot, he belts out ...
Spanish civil society has 'concerns,' due to war in Gaza, about Israel's participation in annual song contest, writes Spanish ...
The United States Army Field Band delivers a powerful performance of the iconic Civil War-era anthem, “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” With lyrics by ... of the song, which has inspired ...
Swaying boot-to-boot, he belts out a song as the sounds of trumpets and accordions roar from a band of a dozen camouflage-clad soldiers ... But Barrón’s lyrics diverge sharply from those ...
Time to take down my National Hug a Newsperson Day (April 4, it didn’t work), just like my flag for National Peanut Butter ...
"When the soldiers first heard it played, it was a much slower call, and it was like a melancholy type of song to them ... almost a decade after the Civil War ended, and although Butterfield's ...
Key was in British custody due to an incident that had occurred two weeks earlier, when a 65-year-old physician, William Beanes, confronted some British soldiers who had tried to plunder his Upper ...
author Chris Bohjalian carried the seed of a Civil War story in his imagination. It was inspired by the true story of a Southern woman who nursed a Union soldier back to health after he was ...