As someone who has spoken with many songwriters, I can tell you that songwriting is not a science. Everyone has their little tips and tricks in this indescribable craft. Many songs seem to materialize ...

Written by Peter Green in 1968 about Sandra Elsdon, a former girlfriend he had nicknamed ‘Magic Mamma’, Black Magic Woman is a song that has legendary status when it comes to guitar history. It was ...

When Lady Gaga debuted her latest single “Abracadabra” during the 2025 GRAMMY Awards, it brought to mind another song with the same name. That song, by the Steve Miller Band, played a crucial role in ...

Black Girl Magic isn’t just a term spawned from social media one day. Okay, so perhaps it is, but the reality of BGM (what the cool kids call it) is that it’s really been ingrained in history for ...