> On line "6", I have the list of musicians in the song.
> Example (ignore the quotes): "Doyle Lawson -- lead vocal; Dale Perry -
> - bass vocal"
> Is there a way to make it so that, when I include line 6 in my PHP
> template, the ";" will be replaced with a line break so I get one
> musician per line in the HTML output?

You could use str_replace on the line you've just read...
http://www.php.net/str_replace

> Lines 7 and so on are the lyrics. The text file has one line per line
> (makes sense, right?) and a blank line between sections of the song.
> I have the script set up to read all the lines from 7 on, but it
> jumbles them all together, ignoring the line breaks. Is there a way
> to script PHP to add the line breaks, or should the line break HTML
> just be inserted everywhere needed in all my separate files?

Use nl2br: http://www.php.net/nl2br
This function replaces all "\n" (newlines) with "<BR>\n" (HTML break with
newline)

HTH
Erwin


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