JimmyFitchMusic

Country music in America has long marketed towards and embodied an eclectic blend of common folk: typically, southern, lower-class, God-fearing, hard-working, blue-collar white men, found in Appalachian homes and hollers scattered well beneath the Mason-Dixon line. From the earliest decades of the twentieth century, families across the United States would

Bill Monroe once said in an interview with George Gruhn: “Bluegrass is a pure music. You follow the melody right, and you don't put in no hot, know-it-all fiddle that don't belong in there” (Ewing 2006, p. 195). Bluegrass music as we know it today was

The region of East Tennessee should be proud to boast that it hosted arguable two of the most important recording sessions in country music history in the late 1920s. Located merely 25 miles apart, Johnson City, Tennessee and Bristol, Tennessee, and more importantly, the recording sessions that took place there

Hank Williams was one of the most prolific figures of country music in the first half of the 20th Century until his untimely departure from this cold, cold world in the backseat of a Cadillac on New Year’s Day in 1953. Williams charted eight number one singles during his