Mark Laws, the drummer for popular country music singer Alex Miller, was shot and killed on May 25 in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Taste of Country reported that Laws’ stepson, Maxwell Madon, has been ...

Taste of Country said many more country stars such as Shania Twain, Reba McEntire, Billy Ray Cyrus, Doug Stone, Shelby Lynne, Shenandoah, Michelle Wright and Martinia McBride recorded songs written by ...

Cotton Daisy Backstep play the old ‘hillbilly’ music of the Appalachian Mountains with songs of the pioneers, haunting ballads, old gospels, shotgun totin’ moonshiners and tub-thumping dance tunes ...

Folk songs have a particular place in the world. Unlike many other genres, folk songs are meant to be meditated on. Listeners are meant to chew on the lyrics to gain some understanding of the world ...

Folk music might have reached its peak mainstream popularity in the 1960s, but without the groundwork laid by the music of the 1940s, the folk revival in musical hubs like New York City in the 60s ...

Autumn. The days get colder, the nights get longer, and you really don’t want to do anything but drive up to your cabin in the woods and hibernate until the snowdrops start blooming. (You’ve got a ...

The celebration of Chhath Puja is incomplete without the divine resonance of Chhath Geet, songs that hold the very essence of the festival. These traditional folk melodies, sung with deep devotion, ...

The documentary film *The Message of the Wind* (co-directed by Heo Wook and Yang Hee), set to premiere on November 5, highlights composer Kim Hee-gap’s musical journey and the countless praises for ...

In “Bring Me the Head of Joaquin Murrieta,” John Boessenecker probes the life of a dashing (but human) Wild West legend. By Darrell Hartman Darrell Hartman is the author of “Battle of Ink and Ice: A ...

For over four decades, Bernice Johnson Reagon has been a major cultural voice for freedom and justice. An African American woman's voice, a child of Southwest Georgia, a voice raised in song, born in ...