With roots stretching back centuries and into Appalachia, numerous artists such as Johnny Cash have given their own spin to ...

Norwegian vocalist Kristin Asbjørnsen is gifted with a voice that sounds quite southern: deep and lustrous, with some hoarseness, lots of passion and a wide range. Her spiritual songbook Wayfaring ...

In 2014, the Haden Triplets – Petra, Rachel, and Tanya – released their eponymous debut album on Jack White’s Third Man Records label. A sterling collection of vintage country songs, the LP was ...

In the later years of Charlie Haden’s lauded professional life, long after he’d helped reconfigure jazz as part of Ornette Coleman’s group, the bassist, composer, longtime Angeleno and patriarch of ...

There is a truth in the old songs — a truth as deep as bedrock and as timeless as Shakespeare. Take “Wayfaring Stranger,” a song I’ve been humming-singing for a week or so. It’s one of those songs ...

All roads start somewhere — even roads that go on forever. For Robert Earl Keen, that origin point is bluegrass music. He grew up with the stuff, listening to singers like Jimmie Rodgers and ...

GENEAOLOGY OF A SONG: From left, Wayfaring Stranger authors Doug Orr and Fiona Ritchie interview the late folk musician Pete Seeger. Photo by Darcy Orr When Fiona Ritchie (the presenter of NPR’s ...