Why the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s musical bridge between generations still matters today

The Long Beach-born Nitty Gritty Dirt Band celebrated 60 years with 'Night After Night,' released in October, marking a ...

Tomatoes, cancer and 52 banjos: A Naples man's inspiring story

Tomatoes tried to kill him. But banjos saved his life. Keith Alessi tells that inspiring story everywhere he travels, ...

Tomatoes, banjos, cancer: Naples man tours world with inspiring story

Tomatoes tried to kill him. But banjos saved his life. Keith Alessi tells that inspiring story everywhere he travels, ...
NOLA.com

Blakeview: Earl King and Al 'Carnival Time' Johnson each wrote an iconic Mardi Gras song

This week we continue our look at some of the names and voices behind some classic Carnival tunes by profiling the writers of ...
Taste of Country

Country Music Grammy Winners: Every Award From 1958 To 2025 [Full List]

Kacey Musgraves won the most recent Grammy for Best Country Song. The Kingston Trio won the first. Here is a list of every ...
Avery Journal

Earl Scruggs Center announces 2026 Remembering Earl Concert featuring Rhonda Vincent and The Rage, Darin & Brooke Aldridge

The Earl Scruggs Center will host the 2026 Remembering Earl Concert on Saturday, April 18, at the Crest High School ...
The Aquarian Weekly

On the Record: Lucinda Williams’s ‘World’s Gone Wrong,’ plus Dave Miller

Bob Marley’s still-timely 1979 song, “So Much Trouble in the World,” the CD’s only cover, finds Williams dueting with Mavis Staples and singing of “men sailing on their ego trips…million miles from ...