The sounds of traditional Appalachian music will once again echo through downtown Etowah as the 31st Annual Cousin Jake Tullock Memorial Bluegrass Festival returns on Friday and Saturday, March 6–7 at ...

Another season of Bridgerton is nearly upon us, this one centering Benedict Bridgerton (Luke Thompson) and Sophie Baek (Yerin Ha). Netflix held the red-carpet premiere for Season 4 of the popular ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “He called and wanted Earl and Lester to do the theme music,” she said. “And I turned it down at first because of the word ...

While "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" became a big hit, Scruggs’ wife and manager, Louise, almost put a stop to the project. Speaking with NPR in 2003, she recalled showrunner Paul Henning approaching ...

Catholic African American music icons Lena Horne and Harry Belafonte helped usher in the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. (Photo: Digital Collections, The New York Public Library) While gospel ...

While the lyrics of the TV theme and the single version of “The Ballad of Jed Clampett” are largely the same, there are some major differences between the two versions. First and foremost, Lester ...

Formed in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, circa 1999, the Steep Canyon Rangers base their neo-bluegrass music on 20th-century masters of the genre such as Flatt and Scruggs, Bill Monroe and the Stanley ...

The gospel music world is mourning the loss of a giant. Richard Smallwood, the Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter and composer whose music reshaped modern worship, has died at the age of 77. For ...

He sold millions of albums with the Richard Smallwood Singers, and his songs, many influenced by classical music, were recorded by stars like Whitney Houston. By Clay Risen Richard Smallwood, a ...

Richard Smallwood, the Grammy-nominated gospel singer whose music has been covered by Destiny’s Child and Whitney Houston, has died. He was 77. A rep for Smallwood confirmed to Variety that he died of ...