In advance of the release of The Nashville Sound, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit have released another of its new songs. Readers can press play above to hear "Cumberland Gap." "This song is about ...

There are few figures in the Americana community who are as respected and beloved as David Rawlings. The songwriter, guitar slinger, producer and longtime Gillian Welch collaborator is one of the ...

"Cumberland Gap, it's a devil of a gap," sing David Rawlings and Gillian Welch on their Grammy-nominated song, "Cumberland Gap." The tune is up for Best American Roots Song at Sunday's ceremony. In ...

Variations on the Appalachian folk tune “Cumberland Gap” paint the area – a mountain pass spanning Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia – as a hard-fought piece of ground, a Civil War battleground ...