Louisiana Hayride

On a Saturday night in 1948, Hank Williams step...

Highways and Heartaches

In a dim clearing off a county road in Kentucky...

In the Country of Country

In a series of indelible portraits of country m...

In Tune

Born into poverty in Mississippi at the close o...

Barn Dances & Jamborees Across Kentucky

Kentuckians have been wearing out shoe leather ...

Louisiana Hayride

By tracing the dynamic history of the radio sho...

The Scotch-Irish Influence on Country Music in the Carolinas: Border Ballads, Fiddle Tunes & Sacred Songs

Country music in the Carolinas and the southern...

Music Makers of the Blue Ridge Plateau

During the late 1920s, Ralph Peer and the Victo...

Kentucky’s Bluegrass Music

It is likely that most fans of bluegrass music ...

The Scotch-Irish Influence on Country Music in the Carolinas: Border Ballads, Fiddle Tunes and Sacred Songs

Country music in the Carolinas and the southern...

How Nashville Became Music City U.S.A.

How did a Southern town become one of the most ...

West Virginia’s Traditional Country Music