It's one of the most distinctive sounds in country and bluegrass music. You can hear it in the singing of Patty Loveless, Keith Whitley and Ricky Skaggs. The way these Appalachian-born singers bend ...

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Lake Park Cemetery Trustee Mark Luke, left, stands with Dr. Charles Wilkins, a newspaper letter writer who wrote about the Gospel hymn “The Old Rugged Cross” and its Youngstown native author — the Rev ...

The four-part harmonies of old gospel hymns will ring through Hartselle First United Methodist Church on Saturday night.

Prior to the official founding of bluegrass in 1940 with Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys, the genre was a melting pot of culture that drew influence from Celtic folk music, Southern life, and, ...

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'Amazing Grace' as it appears in Ginny Hawker's family heirloom songbook, Lloyd’s Primitive Baptist Hymns. You can see stains in the margins, left by the tobacco-covered hands of her aunt Annie Maud ...