Country, folk, and bluegrass music are a direct product of southern culture. That being said, the majority of bands and artists that fall under the umbrella of these genres are mainly from the ...

Chicago probably isn’t the first city that comes to mind when you think of country music. After all, Nashville calls itself the country music capital. And besides, isn’t Chicago too far north — and ...

Critically acclaimed veterans of the country-folk music scene Mary Chapin Carpenter and Shawn Colvin filled the main floor of the Foellinger Great Hall at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts ...

Terry Klein’s fifth studio album, Hill Country Folk Music, offers a moving meditation on aging and memory in intimate and environmental terms. He knows he’s getting older. Youth has passed him by, and ...

Some tend to think that musicians need amplified, distorted guitars and driving beats to transform their anger into songs. That’s not the case, though. Songwriters have been turning their righteous ...

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In its essence, folk music is music for the people — an art form inextricably intertwined with the soul of a region. Its nature is inherently visual, conjuring vivid imagery with just a single ...

Mark Guarino is a child of Oak Park and has been a writer since high school, his work appearing in a vast and varied number of publications, on stages of theaters in plays he created and now, finally, ...

Northern Nevada has been a magnet for country music acts for decades, and the lineup of big-name acts and up-and-coming artists this fall and winter continues in that tradition. From now through the ...

The 2025 Grammy Award nominations released on Friday morning, with nominees Beyoncé and Post Malone leading the pack for their country releases. Beyoncé nabbed 11 nominations, followed by Charli xcx ...

Amongst the pickers who roam the earth in search of lost items to add to whatever collection they garner, there is the rare breed whose preference is for the very uncommon. Harry Everett Smith was ...