So many train songs. I think I said that in my last train post. To update: We (namely me) made a train list dedicated to Railroad Park, which we love. We (namely me) also would love to see a ...

Luther Dickinson's concept for Dead Blues is not all that implausible. After all, in the earliest days of the Grateful Dead, ...

Train’s Pat Monahan had just belted out the opening chorus to “Meet Virginia,” his band’s 1998 hit, when he paused mid-song Thursday night and posed a question to everyone at PNC Music Pavilion.

New to the blues? Here’s what you need to know to get you started. Blues music is a genre that grew out of the American dream. Its roots were firmly planted in the New World before it migrated to ...

Forbidden from playing music, a young Elizabeth Cotten — born in 1893 in what is now part of Carrboro — secretly borrowed her brother’s banjo and guitar. She flipped the instruments upside down to ...

Exactly a century ago, on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 1920, diversity in music took a giant leap forward. The occasion was the first recording session that featured a black popular singer, backed up by a jazz ...

In a recent exclusive interview with American Songwriter, Joe Bonamassa discussed how impressed he was by Paul Rodgers' ...