Ralph Stanley

Kids were still in school, folks were filing their taxes, and only 5,000 fans showed up in Nashville to hear and greet stars of the day like Bill Anderson , Lynn Anderson and non-Andersons including Roy Acuff , Tom T. Hall , Bill Monroe , Loretta Lynn , Ernest Tubb , Dolly Parton , Jeannie Seely , George Jones and George Hamilton IV. Read More

I'm not a religious man but I would like to have a word with god. Read More

Durham, NC (PRWEB) May 25, 2012 Vince Gill and his A-team acoustic band will rock the stage with a bluegrass show, Sunday, June 24 at Durham Performing Arts Center in Durham, NC. Read More

Perhaps consider this a bit of a spoiler post , at least musically. Read More

Author of the cookbook, Hazel's Hot Dish: Cookin' With Country Stars , she also hosts CMT's Southern Fried Flicks With Hazel Smith and shares her recipes at CMT.com.) Ever since the wonderful and very successful movie and soundtrack of O Brother, Where Art Thou? , country music singers, songwriters and, most of all, the powers that be have had great respect for T Bone Burnett , who produced the music. Read More

"This is my party and I'll pick if I want to," Ricky Skaggs told The Boot, and that's just what he did. Read More

Vince Gill and an all-star band will take to the road for a dozen bluegrass shows in June. Joining him will be fiddler Stuart Duncan , guitarist Jeff White , banjoist Jim Mills and bassist Dennis Crouch. Read More

Virginia is the birthplace of country and bluegrass music legends the Carter Family, Hobart Smith, Dock Boggs, Patsy Cline, Ralph Stanley and countless others. Read More

The Stagecoach Country Music Festival moved into its seventh edition this weekend, and even though that's young by festival standards, Stagecoach has become enough of a cultural force that participants and fans are beginning to use it as a yardstick on their lives, like penciled growth marks scribbled on a family's kitchen wall. Acts that once were low in the ranks have sprouted up to the top of the heap, some elder members of the musical family have passed on, a few estranged relatives have returned to the fold, and new blood is welcomed into the mix with each succeeding year. Read More

Eli Young Band, Brett Eldredge, Sara Evans, Alabama, Jason Aldean, J.D. Crowe, The Mavericks, Chris Isaak and Old Man Markley also have come to Indio, California to make live performances. Read More