A song written by South Carolina’s newest poet laureate and featuring South Carolina musician Darius Rucker could become the ...

Could Tennessee have a new state song? Two lawmakers are looking to make just that happen. Tennessee State Rep. Antonio Parkinson and Tennessee State Sen. Raumesh Akbari, both representing Shelby ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When Colorado lawmakers made “Rocky Mountain High” the second official state song in 2007, they couldn’t help but highlight the original, “Where the ...

One could reasonably assume a Tennessee state song should talk about the natural beauty and cultural significance of the state that houses Music City and the Home of the Blues (Nashville and Memphis, ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than a decade ago, when I wrote for another publication, I had the wonderful opportunity to interview George Nigh about how ...

Legislators say the state song is hard to sing, and doesn’t exactly inspire listeners to turn up the volume. A resolution is in the works to get a new arrangement across the airwaves. The current song ...

Forty-eight of the 50 states in the U.S. have an official state song. (New Jersey is the only state without one, and Maryland retired theirs in 2021.) They are all unique and express distinct ...

I have lived in the great state of Illinois for 28 years, and only once have I heard anyone sing our state song, the unimaginatively titled “Illinois.” It was at Lincoln College, in 1995. C-SPAN ...

Infuriated by racism, coming out of the 1960s and going into the ’70s, Neil Young released his commentary on slavery and the South with the After the Gold Rush classic “Southern Man.” By 1972, Young ...