Many of the best known hobo songs of the 1930s were written by urban sophisticates who never spent a moment in an open boxcar. Tunesmiths Waldo O'Neal ("Hobo Bill's Last Ride") and Carson Robinson ...

A handful of classic rock songs have religious overtones ... that he covered “Morning Has Broken,” a hymn from the 1930s. Generally, pop stars want to seem like they’re on the cutting ...

Chicago played a key role in the development of the urban blues of the 1930s. Musicians who had left ... who took their name from one of his songs. BB King was another musician who earned acclaim ...