Ninety-five years ago today, the songwriter behind some of the most important country songs of the 20th century was born.

Now referred to, with some awe, as the Secaucus find, it was one of the most important discoveries in the history of American ...

Edith Meiser, the woman behind the Sherlock Holmes radio program responsible for reviving American interest in the sleuth, is ...

Thousands of songs representing some of the rarest and most uniquely American music borne from the Jazz Age and the Great ...

Willie Dixon. Born at the Delta’s southern tip in 1915, Willie Dixon followed the Great Migration to Chicago. There, he ...

Thousands of songs representing some of the rarest and most uniquely American music borne from the Jazz Age and the Great ...

Florence Price wrote her Second String Quartet in the 1930s, using the sound of classical Europe to tell an unmistakably ...

On this day (October 24) in 1930, J.P. Richardson Jr. was born in Sabine Pass, Texas. Throughout his all-too-short career, he was a popular radio DJ, a recording artist, and a songwriter. The Big ...

In the bleak years of the Great Depression, when dreams were cheap and bread wasn’t, America found its strangest form of ...

William Grant Still, considered the dean of African American composers, is best known as the first to have a symphony ...