Hank Snow News

From the first time we ever heard The Singing Ranger, Hank Snow, we knew he was a man among men.

Elvis died 30 years ago, Aug. 16, 1977, at his beloved Memphis home, Graceland. But the legend lives on in the hearts of his still loving fans.

The late, great Elvis Presley performed in Asheville five times during his long and colorful rock career.

When local DJ and emcee Harold Mitchell was bedridden with rheumatic fever at six years old, the radio kept him company as he listened to the legends on the Grand Ole Opry.

A mature and heartfelt offering from vocalist Rosanne Cash, 'The List' includes a dozen cover versions of tunes she chose from a list of 100 essential country songs compiled decades ago by her legendary father, Johnny Cash.

The few hundred people that made the effort to show up early Saturday to the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 9 festival in Golden Gate Park were rewarded lavishly.

From its humble beginnings 30 years ago at Blue Hole - one of the state's most popular swimming holes - to the 30th anniversary at a cowboy church, the Wimberley Gospel Music Festival has been a long-standing Wimberley tradition.

Legendary Nashville photographer Jim McGuire remembers falling in love with music, and country in particular, after hearing Hank Snow's distinctive "Spanish Fireball" as a 12-year-old. Though he later played in a high school band and even served as a concert and album reviewer for The Village Voice in the late '60s and early '70s, it was McGuire's ...

Canadian songwriter Gordie Sampson says he knew almost nothing about country music when he moved to Nashville in 2005 with his wife and baby and the beginnings of a hit song percolating in his head.

I'm sure everyone who owns a TV has seen the current safety ads against drinking and driving.

Q. I recall Dick Clark saying that Paul Anka was the first Canadian to top the U.S. charts with his "Diana." Who is the first female singer to do so? I think someone before Celine Dion.

Canada's greatest contribution to country music, Hank Snow was famous for his "traveling" songs.

Canada's greatest contribution to country music, Hank Snow was famous for his "traveling" songs.

Last month, two-time Oscar winner Michael Douglas , 64, was honored with the prestigious American Film Institute Life Achievement Award.

One of the few Canadian music books that goes back as far as Hank Snow and Wilf Carter - and sheds new light on some of the more canonized mouldy oldies For a book about Canadian music, the word "Canada" is conspicuously absent from the title of Whispering Pines: The Northern Roots of American Music from Hank Snow to The Band .

Rosanne Cash playfully bickered with her one-man band -- guitarist/producer/husband John Leventhal -- throughout her performance Sunday night at the Dakota Jazz Club.

UP: Bill Malone . Madison's resident country music historian busts Bob Dylan for juvenile plagiarism.