Sears is currently singing the bankruptcy blues — but it's a little-known fact that the retail giant also helped nurture the musical genre spawned in the Deep South. Because that quintessentially ...

Monday’s announcement that Sears would file for bankruptcy and close 142 stores came as little surprise to anyone who has followed the retail giant’s collapse in recent years. Still, the news inspired ...

By 1908, anyone could buy a steel-string guitar from the catalog for $1.89, the equivalent of roughly $50 today. It was the cheapest harmony-generating instrument available on the mass market, ...