Roy Orbison had his first big hit with "Only The Lonely" on this day in 1960, which was passed on by two other iconic artists ...

Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison, and Jeff Lynne formed folk rock supergroup the Traveling Wilburys in 1988 ...

Working together closely, the pair turned out more than 200 songs, including “Crying,” “Running Scared” and “Blue Bayou.” ...

It has been a heartbreaking year for country music fans with more than 20 stars dying already. Recently, two more names were ...

Every Monday morning for the last 14 years, Australian musician Damien Leith has been meeting with the late Joe Melson, the Nashville songwriter responsible for some of Roy Orbison's biggest hits.

The blues-rock guitar virtuoso struts his stuff on his latest album, recommended here in our column of short reviews of local ...

He died of natural causes with his family by his side.

"On July 1st, we said goodbye to the man who heard, in Roy, a voice the world didn't know it needed yet," the post read. "In 1959, a young songwriter named Joe Melson tapped on the window of Roy's car ...

Joe Melson was a singer, but his biggest impact likely came as a songwriter. Parade credited him with being “behind some of rock’s greatest operatic ballads” and helping to shape the sound of the ...

This song has been reinvented by rock and country artists for over six decades.

Despite the Traveling Wilburys being a fairly tight unit, they had time for plenty of friends on any of their records as well ...

They ditched their names.