Some songs stay with the world for decades, even centuries, after their writing. But those songs, which come to us before the music business took its modern form, often have a murky background. One ...

At 2:15 p.m. on Monday, when tornado sirens rang out in Moore, Okla., teachers at the AgapeLand Learning Center rushed their 15 students into the bathrooms — the safest place in their brick building.

Johnny Cash was born on February 26, 1932, in Kingsland, Arkansas, into a poor farming family during the Great Depression. He worked in the U.S. Air Force, where he started writing songs, and later ...