The Shiners are a bona fide “hillbilly” (their preferred term) music collective, a rural-route Continental Drifters. Just take a look at the CD-tray picture included with the Richmond, Va., band’s ...

CHILLICOTHE — The snappy plucks of strings and notes with a shaky sound emanate from a screened-in porch off Marietta Road. Without hesitation, more instruments join in, creating a full lively melody, ...

Ralph Stanley, now 82, has been singing and playing professionally since the '40s, but the music he performs now is not radically different from what he grew up playing and singing with his brother, ...

The dominant popular music of the U.S. today is hillbilly. By last week the flood of camp-meetin’ melody, which had been rising steadily in juke joints and on radio programs for over a year, was ...

HILTONS, Va. — The Carter Family Fold will offer a hardy helping of old-time music from the Hillbilly Biscuits this weekend.

With its sobering lyrics and a droning country-blues riff, "Holy Ghost Power" by The Hillbilly Thomists is a song with zero chance at Christian radio success. The jilted protagonist has been "living ...

Jewel grew up on a five-acre potato farm – without plumbing or heat – near Homer, Alaska, where the singer learned to yodel from her father. The 50-year-old Grammy nominee told AARP for their ...

In returning to a songbook that is decades — if not centuries — old, a new generation of performers is expanding the definition of what their traditional art form can be. Dom Flemons at the nightclub ...

It was a decade ago this month when I reviewed “The Beverly Hillbillies, The Musical” for the 2014 world premiere staged at Theatre at the Center at The Center for Visual and Performing Arts in ...

It seems somehow appropriate that when Rick Miller, the force behind Southern Culture on the Skids, is contacted at his house/ studio in North Carolina for a scheduled interview, his girlfriend ...

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