From ‘a little town with a lot of hard knocks,’ as Dolly put it, came the biggest-selling female country singer the world had ever seen

Nellie Sloggett is not a name that gets uttered very often these days, but she is nevertheless a very important figure in the history of folk collection, and someone who should be far better celebrate

From her humble beginnings in Tennessee, Dolly Parton has used her creative gifts to chronicle the American experience and make a widespread cultural impact...

Contrasting biographical portraits

Miss Julia White, horsewoman, sailor, farmer and haunter of my own farming life (such as it isn’t) first appeared in my life when I was 17, trying to get myself to agricultural college. Or was it when

BORN Edna Mae Durbin in 1921 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Deanna’s parents were British-born and moved to California when she was a child. A natural singer, she had a voice described as a “sweet sop