Hank Williams recorded some of his most enduring material at Castle Studio in Nashville on this very day in 1950.

To celebrate the holidays, we’re looking back at four archive Fresh Air interviews discussing popular Christmas songs: First, jazz singer Mel Torme tells Terry Gross about co-writing “The Christmas ...

Even going back into the 1950s, you can get great country songs. These are three country songs from the 50s perfect for karaoke.

Jimmy Boyd, who first sang "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus", was born in Mississippi. The Catholic Church briefly condemned ...

For the holiday, Craft Recordings is releasing a series of collectible vinyl reprintings of the A Charlie Brown Christmas ...

For all the nay-sayers and Scrooges out there, Christmas pop is an annual scourge of the high street and TV advertising from ...

A self-taught session man extraordinaire, he played with a constellation of stars, including Michael Jackson, Curtis Mayfield, Chaka Khan and Dizzy Gillespie.

The word jazz is far too narrow for the musicianship of multi-instrumentalist, composer, and educator T.K. Blue.

In his last performance in Iowa City, jazz great Herbie Hancock mentioned how he felt “at home in Iowa” because of his years ...

It’s been a good year for jazz, diverse in every way—styles, influences, tastes, and demographics too. I didn’t aim the list to turn out this way, but four of the albums’ leaders are women, and five ...