From swampy blues to triple-guitar assaults, these 21 essential records define the soul, grit, and enduring legacy of the ...

Like so much rock ‘n’ roll from the earliest and most formative years, Southern rock took a little bit from here and a little bit from there. Southern rock, distinct from its lighter country rock ...

Southern Songs and Stories is a documentary series about the music of the South and the artists who make it. Hear their performances and discover the stories behind their songs with a look at their ...

Sometimes we think certain genres are only for certain people, that songs made in East Coast cities are for people living in those East Coast cities. Same for West Coast music, Texas music, southern ...

For Marc Smirnoff, the magazine’s editor and publisher, certain aspects of music have always been special -- its uplifting nature, its intimacy, even its ability to “sweep down and take complete hold ...

Artists like Jessie Murph and songwriters like Laura Veltz and Ben Johnson highlight Nashville's soulful pop melding with ...

The editors of Oxford American, a magazine about Southern U.S. culture, have just released their annual music issue, which includes a CD. Editor and publisher Marc Smirnoff talks with Alex Chadwick ...

To use modern parlance, southern rock slaps. It's got force and it's got twang. It's got sentimentality and its got a rough exterior. It's got storytelling and it's got home-spun pride. It's got it ...

Bristol is bisected by the Tennessee-Virginia state line and is known as the "birthplace of country music." Joel Carillet, Getty Images Everyone knows the greatest hits—Nashville, Memphis, Austin, New ...

The arrival of the Great Southern Music Hall in 1974 meant that concerts, in Gainesville, need not be sweaty, quasi-tribal affairs with music lovers jammed knee-to-elbow into an outdoor space. For ...