DeFord Bailey was born on December 14, 1899, and he remains one of the most trailblazing musicians in country music history.

Raul Malo, who has died of cancer aged 60, was the frontman of the Mavericks, who blended Tex-Mex rhythms with country and rockabilly and had a hit in Britain in 1998 with their jaunty single Dance ...

Some of the nation’s most prestigious colleges have been enrolling record numbers of low-income students as campuses ...