In 1960 in rural Kentucky, a traveling welder purchased a $5 mandolin from a pawn shop for his five-year-old son, a bright-eyed boy who listened to WSM every Saturday night and dreamed of playing the ...

Doyle Dykes is a monument to the country guitar and fingerpicking, in the lineage of his mentor Chet Atkins. Known as the "white wolf" in Nashville, he has played with everyone, and his virtuosity is ...

As Nashville’s preeminent music supervisor, Anastasia Brown has the kind of dream job that almost doesn’t seem like it could be real. She picks the songs for movies and television shows. Brown has ...