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 | From Chad Bowar, your About Music Editor With Father's Day coming up on Sunday, it's the perfect time to honor dear old Dad with great music. Our music guides have come up with some interesting lists of songs about fathers and fatherhood. | |
Top 10 Country Songs For Fathers
There are no shortage of songs about mama in country music, but what about dads? Father's Day may get short shrift in advertising budgets, but dads don't get forgotten by country music's shining stars. All the evidence you need is this lineup of superb country songs for fathers.
| Christian Songs For Father's Day
The state of Washington celebrated the nation's first statewide Father's Day on July 19, 1910. It took another 62 years for the day to become a national holiday in the U.S. Seventy-two countries worldwide celebrate dad's on June's third Sunday with 53 other countries celebrating the day at other times of the year. While God is our Heavenly Father, He has given us earthly dads to love, cherish, protect and teach us. These songs help say "Thank You" for those gifts.
| Great Father's Day Rock Songs
Rock songs about dads come in many different forms. Depending on the relationship between the artist and his father, some tunes are emotional and affectionate, while others are bitter and cathartic. But there are also songs that use the father-son dynamic to examine larger issues, such as mortality or war. No matter the sentiment, these 10 tracks touch the heart while articulating the complicated bond between a father and a son.
| 10 Hip-Hop Songs Dads Will Love
Here's a bitter pill for all the dads out there, hip-hop is far less kind to poppas than mommas. I had to scrape through all the corners of earth to find just a handful of the fatherhood equivalent of our Mother's Day playlist. Enjoy these 10 poignant father-child hip-hop anthems. Happy Father's Day.
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