The South Carolina family had seemingly come all the way to Nashville for nothing. It was 1945, and an Opry star had invited their guitar-mad, 15-year-old son to join his band on the Ryman's hallowed ...

Country musicians have a long history of teaming with jazz and blues artists to produce hip music. Western swing was an outgrowth of jazz. The same goes for rockabilly and the early Sun Records' sound ...

Hank Garland wasn't as famous as Chet Atkins, whose greatest impact at any rate came as an A&R man, and Garland's tenure among Nashville's A-Team didn't last nearly long as that of his only studio ...

Legendary guitarist and musician Hank “Sugarfoot” Garland, who performed with Elvis Presley, the Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison, Marty Robbins, Patsy Cline, and many others, died Monday from a staph ...