We mark the 100th anniversary of The Grand Ole Opry, country music’s biggest stage, and feature interviews with two of its members. First up, bluegrass banjo player Earl Scruggs. He and guitarist ...

The center is installing new interactive exhibits designed to bring banjo master and bluegrass singer Scruggs’ legacy to life ...

The Earl Scruggs Center will be temporarily closed from Nov. 27, 2025, through Jan. 31, 2026, to begin an HVAC renovation and ...

We listen back to archival interviews with two Opry members: bluegrass musician Scruggs, who perfected three-finger banjo picking, and country star Lynn. Originally broadcast in 2012 and 2010.

Bluegrass music has never directly aligned with the general behavior of the mainstream country music scene. Never has it adapted for the sake of popularity and profit, and never has it bent or broken ...

The Uptown Shelby Small Business Pop-Up Market features vendors, music, food and opportunities to support local.

As the country music institution celebrates a century of its radio broadcast, listen to how the show defined the culture — ...

We take it as a challenge: to unearth gifts that feel even more special, more unusual, more deranged. So how does it all get made? To start, we scour the Strategist hive mind and keep running lists of ...

What happens when a 90s country music legend and a guy who sounds like he's straight out of the 90s get together for a good, old-fashioned picking session? I'm not exactly sure what happens, but I do ...

Ron Block of Alison Krauss and Union Station plays Folk In Fusion on 13 January at Waterfront Hall, Belfast as part of the Your Roots Are Showing Music Conference. We asked him the BIG questions . . .

Clint Eastwood has made several biopics over his career as a film director, and here are all the genre movies ranked by their ...

TUPELO – Before he could walk, Mitchell Scruggs was riding on his mother's cotton sack as she picked cotton in the fields. When he was old enough, he too picked cotton by hand. Scruggs, now 76, never ...