joining together to tell a complicated American story, one song at a time. Well, you know, the way I define country music is, first of all, I call it “Country Western” music. It’s the music ...

Enslaved Africans seeking to reconnect with their lost cultural traditions brought African concepts to instruments in the ...

as well as concerts in prestigious American venues such as the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall. The Quintet is a resident faculty ensemble in the School of Music at Western Michigan University.

When Friday Night Lights became a (great) TV series, Berg continued to use a whole lot of the band’s music ... the new miniseries American Primeval, a bleak and violent Western directed entirely ...