Cross-genre country music collaborations aren't a new thing, and these three ultra-successful ones paved the way for the new ...

the music traditions on which they drew were frequently African American as well as Anglo-American. Lead Belly is perhaps the best known name of the African Americans that helped define the genre, but ...

The 1960s was a melting pot of musical innovation, with multiple genres forming, growing and progressing simultaneously in often completely different directions. Funk music started to emerge in ...

Tennessee has shaped American music, producing legends like Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, and ...

Ricky Skaggs speaks with American Songwriter about his hopes that young artists stay true to personal creativity.

The first printed music in the United States appeared in 1690, and the AMRC's holdings of published and manuscript American sacred music begin very shortly after. Our roughly two thousand tune books ...

The Smithsonian's collections and archives are a rich source of information on American folk music and its many genres. Smithsonian Folkways is home to a significant collection of folk music ...