Worst to Best

Ronstadt's career spanned country rock, jazz, mariachi and Motown covers. She didn't follow trends, she started them.

Neil Young's catalog is sprawling and uneven, but that's kind of the point. His willingness to follow instinct over commercial sense defined rock music.

Van Morrison turned a garage band hit into rock royalty, then spent decades refusing to stay in one musical lane.

Five musicians who started as session players ended up reshaping American music.

From folk-rock trailblazers to country-rock pioneers, the group helped define the '60s.

Inseparable but distinctive, and baptized by tragedy, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame bands' influence has only grown over the decades.

'Frampton Comes Alive!' made him a star. This is his story before and after that career-defining blockbuster.

We count down the hidden gems, the duds, the love-it-or-loathe-it oddballs and the obvious classics.

A string of Top 40 albums and songs made her one of the most popular singer-songwriters of the '70s.

All four of their careers included a stirring comeback – or two.