Billboard's staff picks the greatest country songs of the past century that have made us love, cry, drink and dance. In many ways, country music tells the story of America. There is the celebration of ...

Bluegrass music has always been relevant in certain corners of the United States and the world. However, as of late, its mainstream appeal has expanded beyond its regular fan base. That can mainly be ...

Mavis Staples, Molly Tuttle, Punch Brothers among our top picks for the 2026 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in San Francisco.

This Friday and Saturday, Raleigh Wide Open is taking over the streets of our state's capital. The festival is a celebration of American roots music ranging from gospel to folk and also features arts, ...

Bluegrass and mass popularity are not a common match; they never have been. However, what bluegrass has that most popular musicians don’t have is a devout and incredibly steadfast cult following.

Third time's a charm! Michigan native Billy Strings won a Grammy award Sunday for his latest album, making it his third time taking home a golden gramophone. The bluegrass star won the Best Bluegrass ...

Not long after Michigan-raised songwriter Lindsay Lou moved to Nashville in 2015, she made a startling discovery: many of the bluegrass standards she’d been performing since her Uncle Pete took her to ...

Lindsay Lou is the secret weapon of the new wave of bluegrass music that has propelled the genre from the fringes to the mainstream. She performs Saturday night at the Wheeler Opera House with her ...

Like many of the women who grew up around bluegrass and roots music, singer-songwriter Lindsay Lou spent years being “the only girl in the picking circle.” Most of the time, she didn’t mind. “I’m an ...