Introduction: country music and racial formation / Diane Pecknold -- Black hillbillies: African American musicians on old-time records, 1924-1932 / Patrick Huber -- Making country modern : the legacy ...
"Inventing soul music as a combination of blues sensuality and gospel fervor, as Ray Charles did, would be enough to put him in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's inaugural class. But 'Modern Sounds in ...
Al Shade, a beloved local country and western music personality, died Thursday. He was 98. Shade grew up in Gratz, Pennsylvania. He, along with his wife, Jean Romaine, played hundreds of shows in ...