American Songwriter

On This Day in 1983, Country Music Said Goodbye to a Massively Influential Guitarist Who Wrote Some of the Genre’s Most Enduring Hit Songs

Forty-two years ago today, the world lost one of the most influential guitar players in the history of modern roots music.
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Billy Strings Kicks Off Savannah Series with Banjo Duel and Second-Time Covers of Merle Travis and John Hiatt

Last night, April 11, Billy Strings touched down in Savannah, Ga. for the third stop on his eagerly anticipated 2025 Spring Tour. Wrapping up a week on the road that brought four exceptional ...
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WNYC Show #19 Merle Travis Part 2

Dorothy Horstman Oral History Field and Radio Show Recordings / Series 3: WNYC Radio Shows Original Recordings Tennessee Ernie Ford, "Sixteen Tons" "Cincinnati Lou" 1946 "No Vacancy" "Black Diamond ...
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Folk Music in America, Vol. 8: Songs of Labor and Livelihood

Farmerska Kolomyjka / Ukrainska Orchestra Pawla Humeniuka --Cotton seed blues / Easy Papa Johnson "Roosevelt Sykes" --The Dixie cowboy / Aulton Ray --Piesrn dziada / Grajek Wiejski --Steamboat man ...