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On This Day

11.29.25

Born on This Day in 1917, the Country Singer Who Pioneered a Brand-New Guitar Style and Sang About the Exploitation of Coal Miners

By Erinn Callahan
On This Day

10.20.25

On This Day in 1983, Country Music Said Goodbye to a Massively Influential Guitarist Who Wrote Some of the Genre’s Most Enduring Hit Songs

By Clayton Edwards
Features

12.05.23

Before He Was the Snowman He Was the “Guitar Man”; the Meaning Behind Jerry Reed’s First of Many Hits

By Jay McDowell
Track Reviews

04.07.11

Ben Hall: Nashville Sound Revivalist

By Davis Inman