The Birthplace of Country Music announced today that Corbin Hayslett was the winner of the video contest to be included on the upcoming Orthophonic Joy album project. The record will recreate songs from the 1927 Bristol Sessions, when Ralph Peer tracked a number
The Birthplace of Country Music Association in Bristol is offering an opportunity for acoustic artists and singers to appear on the highly-anticipated Orthophonic Joy album, alongside major country and bluegrass artists like Dolly Parton, Vince Gill, Doyle Lawson, Marty Stuart and
Bluegrass fans like to point to the first Grand OleOpry appearance by Bill Monroe & the Blue Grass Boys with Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs as the official birth of bluegrass music. The Ryman Auditorium even has an historical marker
Those with an interest in American music history will already be familiar with Bristol, TN/VA. It was in the Bristol area that the Carter Family got its start, along with Jimmy Rogers. That start came in 1927 with the historic
Students of the history of commercial country music in the United States have a special fondness for Bristol, TN and the story of the Bristol Sessions in 1927. It was in July of that year that Ralph Peer journeyed there
Mountain Stage, the long-running roots music radio show hosted by Larry Groce, and now also offered on television, will travel to Bristol (TN/VA) to record shows in honor of Bristol's status as "The Birthplace Of Country Music." An organization by
We found a nice article in The Blue Ridge Gazette on the contributions of Patrick County, VA residents to traditional Appalachian and bluegrass music. The article is specifically about the opening of a historical marker and information kiosk in Meadows