Songs that kindled memories of growing up in churches during the 1940s and 1950s are fading into silence. And the four-part harmony that many of them required could go with them into history, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. King David playing the lyre in a scene from a 15th-century manuscript of the Book of Psalms. Historica Graphica ...

It’s one of the most distinctive sounds in country and bluegrass music. You can hear it in the singing of Patty Loveless, Keith Whitley and Ricky Skaggs. The way these Appalachian-born singers bend ...

The 12-string guitarist Sarah Louise and fiddler Sally Anne Morgan (Black Twig Pickers, Pelt) understand that folk music is a music that moves forward, as old hymns and songs passed down are just as ...

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“She said, ‘I heard you’re singing those old hymns,’ and I said, ‘Yes, when I am in a place where people are listening,” Hawker said. Though Hawker wasn’t always singing the Primitive Baptist songs in ...