This is an 18th-century French song. Au Clair de la Lune, or translated as By the Light of the Moon is very easy to learn and nowadays sang as a lullaby.

When the fiddle appears in a country song, it is undeniably the loudest and most piercing instrument on the track. It can whine, it can hiss, it can do many things the guitar can and cannot. One might ...

We’d be remiss if we didn’t start with “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” by the Charlie Daniels Band. After all, the country/Southern rock song with bluegrass tones became a classic almost as soon as ...