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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Aaron Rodgers has been a name that Tenessee has been connected to quite often. He would have to cut ties with the New York Jets first, but Rodgers could very well become an option for the Titans.

MERIDIAN, Miss. (WTOK) - 2024 was an incredible year for music in the Queen City, including the country’s longest-running music festival. The Jimmie Rodgers Music Festival and Museum has had a ...