These former and current Kansans have performed songs that made the Top 10 on Billboard's Hot 100 and/or Hot Country Songs ...

Singer Hank Snow mentions Wichita, El Dorado, Kansas City and Dodge City, adding "What a pity" after the latter, in his 1962 hit "I've Been Everywhere." The song's narrator announces, "I've been ...

Jim Jackson was a legendary Mississippi blues man, but his first hit and most influential song was “Kansas City Blues.” Janis Joplin co-wrote and recorded another song called “Kansas ...

The trooper recognized it was Afroman, a Grammy-nominated rapper made famous in the early 2000s after the hit songs “Because I Got High” and “Colt 45.” The stop in western Kansas happened ...

The shows are being tailored to longtime fans familiar with more than the Kansas hits. “We’ll pull from ... to dust off some songs we haven’t played in 45 years. So there’s a lot of ...

Two 19-year-old New York guys who had never set foot in Kansas City compose a rock ’n’ roll song in 1952 that turns into a hit by Wilbert Harrison in 1959. The first recording was by Little Willie ...