“I’m glad I’m able to add some political diversity to the genre (today),” he says, because social consciousness is at the heart of folk music. He cites Merle Haggard’s “Mama’s Hungry Eyes” as an ...

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John McCutcheon, a legend in the folk music world, has addressed some of America’s greatest injustices over the last 50 years. His latest album, Field of Stars, is no different. :: “It’s kind of ...

"It was a lot of that '90s stuff, and then I went back earlier to when [Merle] Haggard, [George] Jones ... Broken Heart," and even "a little bit of fiddle/ And a whole lot of country gold ...

However, like all six-string maestros, Garcia certainly had favourites and a collection of players who inspired him ... Garcia also shared his love for both Don Rich and Merle Haggard’s guitarist, Roy ...

Fiddle player, singer and songwriter Natalie Murphy and country singer Chris Kroeze, who was runner-up on NBC’s “The Voice” Season 15 will soon be in Butler County performing decades of ...

In an interview with the Tennessean promoting his album Where Have You Been, Alan Jackson told the story about Merle Haggard and his mother’s homemade lemon pie. On some arbitrary night ...

His stepfather: Merle Haggard. His mother ... I just started getting them and playing them on my little record player and tried to copy the licks that George Harrison was playing or whatever ...

Bud Larsen, Hardanger Fiddle maker and teacher, looks at part of a fiddle a student is making. It is part of a growing community of fiddle makers marking the 200th anniversary of the first arrival ...

(Marissa Greene | Fort Worth Report) Paskvan and the other fiddle players gathered close, in awe of the sparkling gold and silver belt buckle the Southlake teen had won. Awards and accolades aside, ...

Merle Louise, whose Broadway debut in the original cast of Gypsy launched a decades-long association with Stephen Sondheim that would include notable appearances in Company, Sweeney Todd and Into The ...