With a daring avant-garde approach, she pushed the frontiers of an instrument best known for speaking with a down-home accent ...

At age eleven, country music star Barbara Mandrell was known as “The Princess of Steel” – not for a cold demeanor, but for prowess on the steel guitar. A true prodigy, she could read music ...

It evolved beyond its association with a tropical paradise to influence new genres of music, from bluegrass to jazz to rock ...

Nominee Todd Boss (poet on the "A Dream So Bright" album for best Choral Performance) proposes to nominee Hila Plitmann (on ...

Larkin Poe’s Rebecca and Megan Lovell have travelled in the opposite direction. Raised in Georgia on a diet of bluegrass, they got the downhome rootsy thing out of their systems early on before ...

Tammy – and saw what they did to pave the way for women in country music. And I took that wisdom and added it to what I wanted to do, which was go back to the steel guitar and fiddle.