CHILLICOTHE — The snappy plucks of strings and notes with a shaky sound emanate from a screened-in porch off Marietta Road. Without hesitation, more instruments join in, creating a full lively melody, ...

The dominant popular music of the U.S. today is hillbilly. By last week the flood of camp-meetin’ melody, which had been rising steadily in juke joints and on radio programs for over a year, was ...

With its sobering lyrics and a droning country-blues riff, "Holy Ghost Power" by The Hillbilly Thomists is a song with zero chance at Christian radio success. The jilted protagonist has been "living ...

If biographies matter to you, then Gillian Welch is a fraud. Welch sings harrowing songs in the old-time way: minor-key murder ballads, banjo-laden laments and stone-faced sagas of despair that appear ...

It was a decade ago this month when I reviewed “The Beverly Hillbillies, The Musical” for the 2014 world premiere staged at Theatre at the Center at The Center for Visual and Performing Arts in ...

In returning to a songbook that is decades — if not centuries — old, a new generation of performers is expanding the definition of what their traditional art form can be. Dom Flemons at the nightclub ...

Perhaps the success of the first Porchfest this past summer in Cleveland’s Larchmere neighborhood has inspired others to replicate the engaging, low-key, casual music event. The village of Peninsula ...