Elegant guitarist Chet Atkins is one of the most regularly honored of roots-music makers, as a contributor to country and ...

For a long time, Scott Joplin was a forgotten musical genius. Born in Texas in 1868, he showed an early aptitude for music and when he moved to Missouri in 1894, at some point he was exposed to ...

In Nashville, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, studio producers on Music Row like Owen Bradley and Chet Atkins began experimenting with ways to reach a broader audience: adding a few sweet ...