It’s one of the most distinctive sounds in country and bluegrass music. You can hear it in the singing of Patty Loveless, Keith Whitley and Ricky Skaggs. The way these Appalachian-born singers bend ...

This week, the region is known for exporting coal, but it’s losing people, too. Also, folk singer Ginny Hawker grew up ...

“Lining out” is the practice of singing or stating the upcoming lines of a hymn for the congregation by a song leader or preacher. Typically, the words are stated quickly, and then sung in a drawn-out ...

Here's a piece, courtesy EthicsDaily.Com and Religion News Service, about a denomination in its 100th year, with about 600,000 members. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (RNS) The National Primitive Baptists have been ...