Country music has long shed its Bible-bashing image. Today, bluegrass is helping to heal America’s deep divides ...

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Underneath a fingernail moon and the silhouettes of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, Oliver Wood stood onstage at the Earl Scruggs Music Festival and declared, “This one goes out to ...

There's something about the fast pickin' of bluegrass music, said David Rice. Rice picked up his first guitar at the age of 3 and took in his first Ricky Skaggs song by the age of 4. He's been blind ...

The Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame opened in Owensboro, Ky., in 1991. Since its founding, musicians from 20 states, plus Washington, D.C., have been inducted. But the inductees have largely been from ...

In Nashville, Tenn., one of the local mills advertises a self-rising ingredient for flour and meal known as Hot Rize. For the past nine years, the fortunes of Hot Rize have been rising with a couple ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Bluegrass legend and banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs, who helped profoundly change country music with Bill Monroe in the 1940s and later with guitarist Lester Flatt, has died. He was 88.

Earl Scruggs became a household name in the early 1960s when he and Lester Flatt joined vocalist Jerry Scroggins in recording "The Ballad of Jed Clampett," becoming the theme song for the hit ...

Beyonce’s hit “Texas Hold ’Em” opens with a beat seldom heard on hip-hop tracks: the unmistakable clip-clop of a four-stringed clawhammer banjo. It comes via folk icon Rhiannon Giddens, who was ...

A renowned bluegrass musician who calls Springfield home has received international recognition. Springfield resident Alan Munde, a bluegrass musician who specializes in the banjo, was recently ...

(Missoula Current) Traditional bluegrass influenced by folk and rock was front and center on the Kettlehouse stage recently with The Dead South and opener Goodnight Texas. The Dead South come from ...

Bill Monroe didn’t invent bluegrass music, but he refined it and is the person most often referred to as the “Father of Bluegrass.” The classic instrumentation includes upright bass, banjo, fiddle, ...