This feat became something country historians look to when discussing the earliest moments of the genre. Check out this haunting early recording, below. Black spiritual music is one of the ...

A study of recorded music of Appalachia (hillbilly) and cowboy music collected by Joe Bussard. Collection contains tape recordings of early country music, c. 1930s, plus transciptions arranged by ...

Country music star Parker McCollum rolled into State College over the weekend for a big show, but things didn’t go as planned ...

After early success in the pop market, Bare moved to Nashville to make his way back to country music, where he felt he most belonged. He was signed by Chet Atkins to RCA and developed a ...

From this seed of an idea came the famed “Circle Sessions” – six days of recording in East Nashville’s Woodland Studios with many important early country music figures: Earl Scruggs ...