The Carter Family News

Rita Forrester woke up in the middle of the night and found her living room engulfed in flames.

For more than 30 years, Estil Cortez Ball and his wife, Orna, sang country and gospel music for the people of Virginia and North Carolina, in churches and on the radio, serving only the songs and their Lord.

Most teens gripe when their dad gives them a to-do list. Of course, most teens don't have Johnny Cash for a father.

Yay! Another young, still-to-reach-their-prime performer! I like Laura Cantrell heaps.

For the past six years, audiences in Morris, Sussex and Warren counties have been entertained by the Americana Troupe, a collective of 14 musicians who specialize in acoustic folk, bluegrass and gospel numbers.

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's star-studded 1972 triple-album Will The Circle Be Unbroken is regarded as the first stirrings of the nascent Americana movement, introducing The Carter Family, Roy Acuff, Earl Scruggs and Doc Watson to a young, metropolitan audience.

Mountain Stage host Larry Groce invited old-time historian and enthusiast Riley Baugus to perform some traditional Appalachian songs in Bristol, Tenn./Va., the border city that hosted the first successful recordings of Jimmie Rodgers, The Carter Family and the Stoneman Family in 1927.

Some musicians travel with a big entourage, but it's hard to top Arlo Guthrie's posse.

D'you realize how rare second chances are? I do, and that's why I'm jubilant that Caffe da Vinci, a cornerstone of DeLand's scene, has finally reopened under the shortened name daVinci.

The Ryman Auditorium is excited to announce its latest exhibit which will be on display through the end of 2010.

When Loudon Wainwright III performs at the Carolina Theatre Oct. 15, it will be something of a homecoming.

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.

Virginia Tech now owns items associated with the famous Carter Family country music group of Southwest Virginia and that family's most famous in-law, Johnny Cash.

BLACKSBURG - Materials related to musicians of the Carter and Cash families, including June Carter and Johnny Cash, are now available at Virginia Tech University Libraries' Special Collections.

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Maybe it's the lyrics about falling to pieces or being crazy for loving. Maybe it's the sweet harmony.

This fall in the High Country, there's more to savor than the colorful leaves, steamed corn and apple cider.

Dale Ann Bradley has never been afraid to take risks. The award-winning singer-songwriter recently moved out of Nashville and back home to Eastern Kentucky.

BRISTOL, Tenn. - John Cowan is "chomping at the bit" to play his brand of Americana in the birthplace of country music.

Marty Stuart is making the best music of his life. A veteran performer, his career began at age 12 when he played mandolin with the Sullivan Family, a bluegrass/gospel band from Alabama.