For a long time, Scott Joplin was a forgotten musical genius. Born in Texas in 1868, he showed an early aptitude for music and when he moved to Missouri in 1894, at some point he was exposed to ...

Chet Atkins, the head of RCA in Nashville, had concerns. “This girl just can’t sing,” Atkins reportedly told Wagoner, per the book Dolly: The Biography by Alanna Nash. “I don’t think she ...

In Nashville, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, studio producers on Music Row like Owen Bradley and Chet Atkins began experimenting with ways to reach a broader audience: adding a few sweet ...