When people talk about their favorite country songs, they seemingly pick one from the 70s, 80s, 90s, and so on. Though what they innocently fail to acknowledge is the fact that none of those decades ...

Bluegrass music was the soundtrack of last century’s migration from Appalachia. Now, with the help of Miami University’s regional campuses, working-class tunes of yesteryear are being re-discovered.

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.

Sep. 7—Historians of bluegrass music say that Bill Monroe, "the father of bluegrass," bought his famed 1923 Lloyd Loar Gibson F-5 mandolin at a barber shop in Florida in the 1940s. But Jerry Ashley, ...

With bluegrass now more than 60 years old, you’d think there’d be nothing new under the sun when it comes to the high lonesome sound that Bill Monroe fashioned in the mid-1940s. The rock-bluegrass ...

This Friday and Saturday, Raleigh Wide Open is taking over the streets of our state's capital. The festival is a celebration of American roots music ranging from gospel to folk and also features arts, ...

Mt. Lebanon’s John Mackin got his first taste of bluegrass music as a young boy in the mid-1950s. Mackin, 74, recalled listening to two women sing “Foggy River” as a man accompanied them on fiddle ...

Mar. 20—Bluegrass music was the soundtrack of last century's migration from Appalachia. Now, with the help of Miami University's regional campuses, working-class tunes of yesteryear are being ...