Tyler Childers could have done whatever he wanted. The Kentuckian singer-songwriter broke through in 2017 with “Purgatory,” a collection of immediately satisfying neo-traditional country songs ...

Kay-Kay Smith says she’s both comforted and conflicted every time she hears her mother’s voice singing those old gospel songs. “This is the same song that we played at her funeral.

Tom Lehrer, the popular song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his ...