"Fast Car" is one of the most timeless songs out there. As Tracy Chapman explains, though, the hit actually isn't about cars at all.

Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car" ended up driving her right to the coveted CMA award for song of the year — 35 years later. The Country Music Association donned the 59-year-old singer with the song of the ...

This weekend launches the unofficial start of summer, and it’s a fine time to contemplate not only the more somber aspects of what Memorial Day represents but also the joy of the coming season.

This weekend launches the unofficial start of summer, and it’s a fine time to contemplate not only the more somber aspects of what Memorial Day represents but also the joy of the coming season.

To kick off the summer, the Free Press in May offered two dozen songs about cars and driving suggested as a warm-weather playlist — and invited readers to make suggestions for a second round. No one ...

Just a handful of the dozens of songs linked to autos throughout the decades, here’s a look at five songs that pay a unique homage to cars—and other subject matter—from children’s nursery rhymes, love ...

Last week, Tracy Chapman made country music history by becoming the first Black woman to be the sole songwriter of a Number One country hit when Luke Combs’ cover of her 1988 song “Fast Car” topped ...

This essay originally appeared in NPR Music's weekly newsletter. Subscribe to the newsletter here. As a small-town kid in the 1980s, I fell in love with music via MTV and the ritual of transcribing ...

Cars and music have basically been two congruent puzzle pieces since the former was invented. Whether it's people enjoying listening to music in their cars or people making music about cars, it's ...