In the autumn of 1927, Victor Records and their talent scout and producer Ralph Peer were giving some thought to an artist they had signed up that summer – a 30-year-old singer and guitarist named ...

Thanks to Timothée Chalamet’s masterful performance, the new biopic on singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, “A Complete Unknown,” for ...

Writer and musician Emma John travels south to find the beat—and birthplace—of a special kind of Mississippi music.

It's a glorious mixture of all the forms of folk which were ... and the yodelling Jimmie Rodgers, the man who came to be known as the father of country music. Yodelling, a peculiar import from ...

album, produced by T-Bone Burnett, was a heady mix of bluegrass, country, gospel, blues, and folk music that accompanied ... revival of Blind Blake and Jimmie Rodgers’ “In The Jailhouse ...

The Homegrown String Band will be celebrating their 28th anniversary performing as a family with a concert on Sunday, Jan. 12 ...

southern folk-type blues. A good example of that to me, the greatest country blues singer in the world was the old Jimmie Rodgers, which maybe there’s not that many people know around the world ...

including the country’s longest-running music festival. The Jimmie Rodgers Music Festival and Museum has had a jam-packed 2024, from new educational programs to sell-out shows. This year ...

The term “old soul” is brutally overused. But what else do you call a 20-year-old folk singer in 2024 whose holy trinity of singers all hail from the 1970s or earlier? For Nashville based ...