Ketch Secor serves as a classic example of having to leave home to find home. The singer, songwriter and fiddler in old-time string band Old Crow Medicine Show bristled some at American roots music as ...

On October 3, 1967, the world lost a pioneering folk icon just as his music was reaching a new audience, thanks to the 1960s folk revival.

Fifty-eight years ago today, one of the most influential folk singers in American history died after a long illness.

GREAT BARRINGTON — Growing up in Chile, Christine Gevert remembers folk music was everywhere. Gevert, the founder and artistic director of the Connecticut-based music organization Crescendo, spent her ...

The homecoming parade will take place on Thursday beginning at 5:30 p.m. This year's theme, “United After the Storm: Resilience, Culture, and Community,” honors the strength and solidarity that ...

In 1973, Dylan was writing music for the soundtrack of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, a Western that also featured his hit “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door.” While working on that project, Dylan recorded a ...

A line widely but wrongly attributed to Lenin states that there are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen. Last week was one of those weeks. Israel struck Hamas negotiators in ...

A new Western-themed bar, The Cowboy Cantina, is opening in Knoxville's Old City. The grand opening is intentionally set for Sept. 12, just before Georgia football comes to town to face Tennessee.