Nimrod Workman was 77 years old when he first entered the recording studio. More than 50 years later, the young producer who helped capture the tracks remembers his friend’s unparalleled impact.

A woman who sang old English ballads and folk songs that were among the earliest preserved in western North Carolina soon will be recognized with a North Carolina Highway Historical Marker. The N.C.

My 5-year-old nephew, Ezra, sits between his mother and grandmother on a porch-swing covered in old quilts. An expansive view of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Madison County, N.C., spreads out before ...

Lost murder ballads about a notorious 1810 case in Fayette County, Pa., inspired Allison Borek to write her original song ...

IN the long-expected work of which the first part lies before us, Professor Child undertakes to give every existing version of every popular English ballad, together with its comparative history, ...

SONGBIRD: Eighth-generation Madison County ballad singer Donna Ray Norton, pictured, says she hopes her work with touring music collective Nest of Singing Birds will bring attention to the local ...