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"Red Dirt Girl" singer Emmylou Harris had a complicated relationship with music long before she became a country music star.

We searched the Chronicle archive for the first Hardly Strictly Bluegrass coverage. Here's who played 25 years ago and how ...

There is something for everyone in Lucinda Williams’s catalog. Her poetic lyrics and Southern Gothic influence please ...

Next month, the musician releases a cover album of songs by his hero Kurt Weill. He talks to Jude Rogers about life under ...

With regard to Lilith Fair, the late-’90s touring festival of female artists co-founded by Sarah McLachlan, so many jokes ...

Dolly] said to me quite shyly after the record was played back, ‘My God, if I thought that deep, I’d scare myself to death," said Mitchell.

Four-time 2025 Los Angeles Press Club-winning writer and best-selling author Holly Gleason talks four decades of country's ...

Founded by Warren Hellman in 2001, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass keeps growing without losing its soul. Among the marquee acts ...

Before penning smash hits like "Jolene" and being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Dolly Parton overcame poverty ...