Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Fourth of July is rapidly approaching, and amusement parks like Kentucky Kingdom can often be forgotten as a destination to ...

Earl Eugene Scruggs, the most influential and imitated five-string banjo player in the world, was born on a forty-acre cotton farm in the little Flint Hill community of Cleveland County on January 6, ...

For four hours on Saturday evening, Nashville's Ryman Auditorium hosted the persistent, echoing crescendo of a capacity crowd of foot-stomping bluegrass devotees celebrating banjo player Earl Scruggs' ...

Popular music in North America entered a revolutionary stage in the 1940s, and a handful of recordings from the decade document the shift into music that was more virtuosic than what had come before.