Clarinetist Andy Biskin leads his creative quartet through an interesting program of Stephen Foster songs and several originals. As much as possible, he's tried to capture the composer's original ...

Bob Dylan is becoming an author again. In "The Philosophy of Modern Song," the Minnesota bard will offer more than 60 essays about songs by other artists including Stephen Foster, Hank Williams, Nina ...

ABOUT eighty-four years ago, at his home in Pittsburgh, a young man named Foster was trying to write a song. ‘I want the name of a river in the South with two syllables in it,’ he said to his brother ...

Way down in the farthest reaches of Georgia along Highway 441 -- way, way, way down yonder at the Florida state line -- there's not much to see except a gazillion acres of the deepest, thickest woods ...