they had good organists and piano players,” he remembers, “and the Salvation Army always had those brass horn sections.” At 19, he landed work with the Southern Gospel quartet J. D.

Almost five years after millions of TV viewers saw and heard Jovin Webb on “American Idol,” the Gonzales native is releasing ...

"Bill Monroe, often called the father of Bluegrass music, established the classic Bluegrass sound - high, pure tenor voice, powerful mandolin solos against the banjo background. Bluegrass remains ...

He was already proficient at playing drums by age 12, which led to him playing professionally for the ‘60s Southern gospel ...

He also wrote a little work for piano called Vexations—an 80-second chordal theme of only 180 notes in 52 beats. Then, in high humor, he added to the score an instruction that Vexations was to ...

A while back, [Jacob] played around with a player piano. After feeding a roll into the machine and trying to figure out how a fifty year old machine using hundred year old technology can replicate ...

Fifteen-year-old New Orleans piano prodigy River Eckert got some local support for his solo debut "Pass the Torch", featuring ...

Glossy photos of the church's glory days show the Paulks shaking hands with politicians, gospel music stars and ... a standout high school basketball player -- good enough to land a college ...

Bob Dylan on acoustic guitar? Sure. Dylan wailing away on harmonica? Obviously. But Bob Dylan playing the piano? The casual fan of the legendary singer/songwriter probably doesn’t imagine him ...

“My tax dollar killing children and they mothers,” Navy Blue raps over a player-piano beat ... turn-of-the-century R&B with a joyous gospel piano line and sunny Motown-esque songwriting ...

Southern Rock. Rockabilly ... My mom was a really fine gospel piano player. So, these instruments were in my house all the time.” His career has been a confluence of country styles.