Grandpa Jones News

Unlike some of its well-known contemporaries such as Sun, Stax and Motown, there is little reminder of Cincinnati's King Records, just a marker at 1540 Brewster Ave., in Evanston.

Kim and I saw Kathy Mattea in concert last week at the Ozark Folk Center, and it made me wonder something.

It was southern, and it was hot. About 1,500 people associated with various businesses, local governments and a slew of other organizations gathered Saturday evening at White Hall State Historic Site to celebrate "Country Nights," which was the theme of the 27th annual Pops at the Park.

Music history preservationists have begun a fund drive for a historic marker at a site in Ohio where Hank Williams Sr.

In 1968, a young Texas-born musician named David Holt took his banjo and traveled to the heart of the Appalachian Mountains.

Joe Pagano has been anchored in the Great Northeast for the last half-century, but from there he's seen the world - most of it through the same 15-inch screen: Handheld video of the Beach Boys fooling around in an apartment.

Grandpa Jones often referred to folks with distinction as the flower of the flock.

Lorraine Chinn, left, and Mary Sewell, middle, both of the Union City Homemakers, and Anne Poulter of the Rebecca Boone Homemakers, watch a Kentucky Chautauqua program Tuesday featuring David Hurt from Berea as country musician and comic Grandpa Jones during the 79th annual meeting of the Madison County Extension Homemakers at the county extension ...