When “My Old Kentucky Home” plays at the track, who doesn’t get a little choked up? It’s tradition, its nostalgia, it’s pure ...

As an anti-slavery pastorale, “My Old Kentucky Home” foreshadows the blend of influences—and at times, cultural (mis)appropriations—of American music to this day. “My Old Kentucky Home ...

Composer Stephen Collins Foster in an 1859 daguerreotype. At right, the first edition sheet music of “My Old Kentucky Home,” published in 1853.

The "My Old Kentucky Home" lyrics, revised in 1986, are as follows: "The sun shines bright in My Old Kentucky home,/'Tis summer, and people are gay;/The corn-top's ripe and the meadow's in the ...

"My Old Kentucky Home," Stephen Foster's iconic song now associated with the Kentucky Derby, has a controversial legacy of place and race. Historian Emily Bingham's book will explore the song's ...

“My Old Kentucky Home, Goodnight” was written by Stephen C. Foster, the most successful songwriter of the mid-19th century, and Prine first recorded it in 2004, when it was included on the ...

A few days before the 145th Run for the Roses, Metro columnist Joe Gerth called for people to stop singing our state song, "My Old Kentucky Home," at the Kentucky Derby because of its ties to ...

Opinion: KY's state song, 'My Old Kentucky Home,' evokes a racist past and should be banished to the archives of historical shame. We need a new song.

Kentucky adopted “My Old Kentucky Home” as its state song in 1928. In 1986, however, a Black member of the Kentucky House of Representatives named Carl Hines objected to the song’s repeated ...

My Old Kentucky Home in Bardstown is all decked out for the holidays with fun events for the whole family. “An Old Kentucky Christmas Carol” features a talented music cast performing Charles ...

You'll hear My Old Kentucky Home sung at Churchill Downs as you usually do before the Kentucky Derby, but did you know that the Kentucky state song is actually controversial?. You will now. The ...

Unfortunately and perhaps unsurprisingly, “My Old Kentucky Home” has a rather racist history. The lyrics they sing in 2018 are an updated version, revised in 1986 to change the use of “darky ...