The 80-year-old Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer played with energy and excitement, as if he was riding a high that had been far ...

The Memphis area is full of ways to ring in the holiday season with music, from concerts to the "Nutcracker" to ukuleles.

It is sung unaccompanied and is highly ornamented, with different sean-nós styles found in the various Gaeltacht areas of ...

We’re starting the week with a party fit for a queen! Monday is Wanda Jackson’s birthday. She was one of the first women to have a career in rock and roll, and the string of hits she released in the ...

Forty-five years ago the world got its first recorded blast of the Stray Cats when the rockabilly trio from Long Island, then living in London, released its first single, “Runaway Boys.” And these ...

TUPELO – With his reconstructed 1940s Vega guitar in his hands, Dale Rushing's eyes gleam as he talks about rockabilly music and the many Mississippi artists who play or were influenced by it. A ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Let's continue our week of interviews from our archive with R&B, rockabilly and early rock 'n' roll musicians and songwriters. Up next, we have Carl Perkins, one of ...

TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Let's continue our week of interviews from our archive with R&B, rockabilly and early rock 'n' roll musicians and songwriters. Up next, we have ...

Combine an intelligent interviewer with a roster of guests that, according to the Chicago Tribune, would be prized by any talk-show host, and you're bound to get an interesting conversation. Fresh Air ...