INDIO, Calif. -- Officials say a 78-year-old man tied a puppy to train tracks in the California desert, and an engineer had to use emergency brakes to...
SHARPSBURG, Md. -- A weekend conference at the Antietam National Battlefield is exploring the link between the banjo and the Civil War. The National ...
In the United States and around the world, roots music is thriving. You can see it at the highest levels of the global music scene, in the work of Grammy-winning artists such as the Carolina Chocolate Drops and the Chieftains, both of which have new albums very much worth hearing.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Doug Dillard, an influential banjo player who helped shape rock `n' roll and introduce the nation to bluegrass music during a popu...
Now that Facebook is a public company (or will be by the end of the week) and will be making regular appearances on channels like CNBC and Fox Busines...
There's a current resurgence in interest in the banjo by today's popular musicians (i.e. Mumford & Sons, The Avett Brothers and Taylor Swift). Those new folks may come and go, but a true obsession runs very deep. For at least one lifetime.
At a recent show, guitarist Hubby Jenkins joked that a white person playing banjo in the mid-1800s was like "Vanilla Ice rapping in the 1980s."
Facebook will help you keep tabs on your friends' children, careers and concerts, but it won't tell you when your freshman year college roommate is at...
This edition of "A-Sides" features three unique artists who will either mellow you out or rock your socks off. Actually, if you're mellowing out - aren't your socks off anyway? That doesn't matter either.
This post is part of a new series from HuffPostTech, Socialized, that will profile a different social startup--from apps to services to websites--...
Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers have released a music video for their song "Jubilation Day" which features Martin and his bandmates' heads o...
There's no denying that a bluegrass-influenced movement is taking place right now. Here are some bands to check out. Feel free to offer up your own style classifications if you'd like.
I found Curly and Carole Anne the same way I find a lot of the stories for The Perennial Plate, searching the internet. When I stumbled upon banjo p...
"I don't wanna think, I wanna feel... How do I feel?" That's a great line from a forgotten Pearl Jam tune "Hail, Hail," which I live and struggle w...
Chicago's getting a taste of Southern tradition this weekend, as one of the great old-time string bands comes through town. The Carolina Chocolate Dr...
Often times in this political climate, the media becomes a politician's worst nightmare. Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn is never shy about blast...
David LaBrel writes about heartache and love going bad, and you can hear his first 13 years in Helena, Montana in his songs' country gait, the pedal steel and the passing twang in his voice.
A Denver man used his banjo for more than just picking bluegrass tunes. Early on New Year's Day, Joseph Stancato, 32, allegedly hit a man in the hea...
"It's as if we're still in Mali," Cheick said. "I was born a griot, I will die a griot, and I hope that my work will continue the greatness of jeliw in the U.S."
Before he played his new album's title track, Martin said it had became a minor hit in the bluegrass world. "And in the bluegrass world," he quipped, "a minor hit is a major hit."
As someone on the left who loves folk music, I understand that I'm supposed to feel mystically uplifted by the dean of activist folkies. But I never could stand Pete.
