Jeff Cook, the founding Alabama guitarist and fiddle player whose fleet-fingered licks helped define country music’s most successful band, would have turned 76 today. Born on August 27, 1949, in Fort ...

Both of these tapes feature an African American stringband (fiddle, banjo and guitar), consisting of Murph Gribble, John Lusk and Albert York of Campaign, Tennessee, who were recorded from 1946 to ...

Everything starts with tuning; and if you're a guitarist it's a burden you have to accept. Pianists? They have it easy! Set and forget. But every time you pick your guitar up to play you'll need to ...

WAYNE, PA — The 8th South Wayne Porchfest is nearly here, and it will bring more than 60 musical acts to porches across the neighborhood for a day of community and music. The fun begins at 11 a.m. and ...

Long before AI, or “A-1” as U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon calls it, our nation’s farmers used the “Old Farmer’s Almanac” to inform important decisions about how to properly manage their ...

In 1925, the talk of the town was the dazzling new WSM radio station, on the fifth floor of the National Life and Accident Insurance Co. building in downtown Nashville. The Tennessean headline from ...

When Asleep at the Wheel decided to record a record of Texas-centric songs to commemorate the Western swing outfit spending 50 of its 55 years in the Lone Star State, Ray Benson had a simple request: ...

When I was an agnostic, I prided myself on my open mind. I listened to the full range of spiritual theories, from the sutras of Buddhists to the anathemas of Calvinists. Research trips took me to ...

The grown-up musical game of Choose Your Own Adventure that is Americanafest has come and gone for 2025, and I for one feel ...

LAWRENCE (KSNT) – The 44th annual Kansas State Fiddling & Picking Championship brought hundreds of spectators and contestants to downtown Lawrence. Over 3,000 bluegrass and traditional music fans from ...

OSCEOLA — Phil Banaczak, whose talents include teaching fiddle, violin, and mandolin, will be the featured performer from 2-5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 7 at the North American Fiddlers Hall of Fame and ...