For instance Appalachian folk music–and later, bluegrass–is full of murder ballads. These are songs of love, jealousy, scheming, revenge, and death. Decades later, they’re a major part of ...

Country music rose from deep and intertwined roots – from fiddle tunes and hymns and from work songs and ballads; from smoky saloons and secluded Appalachian hollows; from barrios along the ...

Enamored of early roots music recordings of Appalachian ballads and string bands from the 1930s, he soon discovered the music of Hank Williams and George Jones – he describes it as “a bomb going off ...

She worked hard on the farm and in the house, singing old Appalachian ballads and story songs she’d learned from her mother, and on Saturday nights would listen to the Grand Ole Opry on a ...

A $50,000 grant awarded to Ballad Health Foundation will help support kindergarten readiness throughout Northeast Tennessee.