When the fiddle appears in a country song, it is undeniably the loudest and most piercing instrument on the track. It can whine, it can hiss, it can do many things the guitar can and cannot. One might ...

Program and biographical notes by Charlie Faurot on container. "Old time banjo and fiddle tunes"; featuring Wade Ward, Fred Cockerham, George Stoneman and Kyle Creed, with instrumental ensemble.

105 Sunny Home in Dixie / Ernest V. Stoneman, Frank Jenkins, Oscar Jenkins. Fiddle 106 Billy in the Lowground / Lowe Stokes, Riley Puckett. Fiddle 201 Done Gone / Riley Puckett, Clayton McMichen, ...

Escobedo says when she plays the old songs nowadays, it makes men cry because they remember how their fathers taught them, too. This Father's Day, listen to old-time Tejano fiddle music by Belen ...

Jeff Cook, the founding Alabama guitarist and fiddle player whose fleet-fingered licks helped define country music’s most successful band, would have turned 76 today. Born on August 27, 1949, in Fort ...

Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd speaks with San Antonio-based fiddle player Belen Escobedo about the old-style barn dance music her grandfather taught her to play. Escobedo says when she plays the old songs ...