Dire Straits' Mark Knopfler always respected country, from Willie Nelson and his later collaborations with the Notting Hillbillies.

If something ain’t broke, there’s no use fixing it, which is what makes these modern songs for classic country and folk lovers so enduring and timeless. From the classic swell of a pedal steel to the ...

With a daring avant-garde approach, she pushed the frontiers of an instrument best known for speaking with a down-home accent. By Alex Williams Susan Alcorn, an experimental composer and musician who ...