Rik Mercaldi acquired his main electric guitar at age 15 and has been mastering its intricacies ever since. Give him a ...

Radney Foster is one of the legendary, Texas-born singer-songwriters people mention in bar conversations to legitimize the type of country music they listen to as more authentic than their neighbor ...

The husband-and-wife duo of Michael Trotter Jr. and Tanya Trotter, aka The War and Treaty, are out on Mercury Nashville with "Plus One." The disc focuses on their relationship.

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We spoke to Robert Randolph, The Teskey brothers, Taj Farrant and , Kanchan Daniel, about the past and future of blues.

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Susan Alcorn, the revered pedal steel guitarist who brought the instrument beyond its traditional role in country music, died ...