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Legendary British DJ John Peel's record collection is going up online. Times pop music critic Randall Roberts looks at the first batch of vinyl....

On Friday night a full house at Bethlehem's Godfrey Daniels revisited the music of Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. An animated, personaable John McEuen played their songs and told stories about them, along with performing a wealth of other Americana tunes and...

President Obama sang the blues on Tuesday with B.B. King, Mick Jagger and Buddy Guy for a White House blues concert. The President is one of many chief executives who have shown their musical talents in office....

Saturday at 7 p.m. I will host "Sweet Folk Chicago" on WFMT-FM 98.7. The program invites guest hosts to play and talk about a selection of songs that are meaningful to them. I chose about a dozen. UPDATE:Here's my playlist......

Country singer Hank Locklin, whose smooth tenor voice on hits including "Send Me the Pillow You Dream On" and "Please Help Me I'm Falling" marked a career that spanned half a century, has died. He was 91. Locklin died Sunday at his home in Brewton, Ala.,...

If Eddy Arnold really is the most successful country music hit maker of all time, why haven't we heard more about him in recent years? I've heard that question a lot in the days since the Tennessee native, who helped broaden the appeal of country music...

Long before Governor Terminator, before Congressman Gopher and Congressman Cooter, even before Governor Gipper, there was Governor Pappy. W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel, host of a popular daily music program on Texas radio, swept into the Texas governor's...