Dolly Parton fans know how she honed her musical chops in a Tennessee cabin with 11 siblings. But the source of her talent ...

Identified through DNA profiling, Edward Dale Johnson, from New Rockford, North Dakota, was laid to rest recently in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii ...

I cannot believe that it has been 60 years this month since I graduated from Sevier County High School and moved to Nashville ...

Researching her family history, Cheryl Wills found she was related to a former slave who served in the Civil War with the ...

Brave black Civil War soldier Sandy Wills was recently given a heartfelt military burial — after his ...

The album’s second track, “My Tennessee Mountain Home,” describes Parton’s peaceful ... Several interludes, such as “Rosewood Casket” and “I’ll Meet You in the Morning,” feel more superfluous than ...

On her latest release, Smoky Mountain DNA, the 78-year-old has abandoned the Fender-toting cosplay and returned to old-timey ...

As floodwaters roared through remote mountain communities of Western North Carolina, locals raced against time to save each other.

When Bill retired, he split his time between Southwest Florida and Tennessee. He started playing ... the U.S. Gober died in 2012 and an open-casket memorial service was held at the bar.

Inside the exhibit, Rosenthal leads me to a casket. Pointing at a human skeleton ... with the same records he first listened to: “Sixteen Tons” by Tennessee Ernie Ford and “Raunchy” by Bill Justis and ...

Virtually an unelected global representative of the Tennessee hill people she comes from ... renders the old-time country ...