His ensemble, The Blue Grass Boys, was a band and a platform for several bluegrass prodigies like Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs to showcase their brilliance. There's something celestial about Alison ...

The show claimed to raise your pigskin IQ. To get my weekly prescription of smart pills, I’d tune in the crackling, AM ...

Bluegrass inspired modern country music in a huge way, so it makes sense that these four legends got their start in the ...

The collection includes a little over 400 lots, but few stand as significant as Flatt’s D-18. It is considered the very first ...

Wayne Steadham, who has attended the Walnut Valley Festival every year since 1972, says the campground culture is the ...

Legendary fingerpicker Flatt wielded this D-18 while he played with Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys, and used it to help pave ...

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Today in Music History for Sept. 16: In 1857, the song "Jingle Bells" was copyrighted by Jane Pierpont of Boston. The song, originally titled "One Horse Open Sleigh," was written for a Sunday school ...

I′m a goin' now and trade my ol′ Ford for a Olds Huh, I might get all drunked up and trade it for the Rolls But there's a-one thing I know for sure I'll always be blue There ain′t no way get drunk ...

In the centennial year of Earl Scruggs’ birth, the music festival held in Mill Spring bearing his name still has its new car ...

Country's new breakout stars like Dasha, Jelly Roll and Post Malone are evolving perceptions of the genre at its century-old ...

The last time the Grand Ole Opry had so many new artists making debut performances, Marty Stuart was a 13-year-old bluegrass prodigy rubbing shoulders with Lester Flatt and Gram Parsons.