BRISTOL, Va. (WJHL) — The Appalachian region is recognized as the birthplace of country music, but even before the Bristol Sessions began recording, it was also the origin of a distinct type of soul ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHEYENNE — Bluegrass artist Jim Hurst may not be from the capital city, but he vividly recalls the beauty from his years of ...

As he engages in internal ciphering to determine the elapsed time since his career switched from the traditionally minded country music he took to the top of the charts during the ’80s back to the ...

Bluegrass music has recently made a massive resurgence, thanks to folks like Billy Strings and Sierra Ferrell. However, as most of you know, the genre isn’t a new thing. Rather, it is one of the ...

MIDDLETOWN — Miami University Regionals Appalachian Studies and Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers will celebrate the launch of “Industrial Strength Bluegrass: Southwestern Ohio’s Musical Legacy,” ...

Bluegrass came into being, at least in our modern understanding of the genre, alongside recorded music. That means we have recordings from the earliest bluegrass stars up until now. Rest assured, ...

Tony Rice, one of the leading lights of bluegrass music since the 1970s, and a 2013 inductee into the International Bluegrass Music Association Hall of Fame, died suddenly on Christmas Day. He was 69.

In 1974, when he was 10 years old, Sam Karr attended the very first Festival of the Bluegrass. The event triggered a sense of involvement that would bring him back — year after year and, eventually, ...

Earlier this year, Greensky Bluegrass, one of the marquee acts of the jam-grass scene, headlined the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Colorado. It was a full-circle moment for the quintet: In 2006, ...

The biggest story of this year’s International Bluegrass Music Association award show wasn’t that Billy Strings won his third consecutive Entertainer of the Year honor. Nor was it that Sierra Hull ...