Not long after she started spreading the gospel of Primitive Baptist singing, she went to visit her aunt Annie Maud Puckett in a nursing home. Puckett had also grown up in the Primitive Baptist church ...

Andy Ditzler stands in the center of a hollow square, "The Sacred Harp" formation in which singers organize into four voice parts and face each other to create an opening in the middle, at Holly ...

It's one of the most distinctive sounds in country and bluegrass music. You can hear it in the singing of Patty Loveless, Keith Whitley and Ricky Skaggs. The way these Appalachian-born singers bend ...