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You can eat ramps raw — or with potatoes — at this Sunday's Ramp Festival, estimated to draw as many as 5,000 people to the Mount Rogers Fire Hall, just off U.S. 58, in Whitetop, Va. […]

On the road, playing music, Dale Jett follows much in the footsteps of his mother, Janette Carter, the late, great founder of the Carter Fold. […]

Marty Stuart calls him "Cuzzin' Kenny." Stuart's fans know him as Kenny Vaughan, the country singer's lead guitarist in his band the Fabulous Superlatives.   […]

Babe Ruth built baseball’s New York Yankees. Bach, Beethoven and Mozart composed masterpieces.   […]

New York and bluegrass fit like hip-hop and honky-tonk. Right? Not quite. Take upstate New York’s Gibson Brothers. Set to juice up Jonesborough’s Bluegrass Series on May 19 at the Visitor’s Center in Jonesborough, Tenn., the now-veterans of bluegrass have registered 10 albums in the genre.   […]

In Thursday's edition of Melissa For Hire at 7 p.m., Melissa attempts to make it as a dairy farmer.  […]

Mother’s Day was made for women like Jewel Bell. Then again, perhaps rare are the women like Bell. Character leaps from her eyes like a fishing line cast. Words spoken, center of the sun smile given. Then it’s impossible to not get hooked on the woman who’s the friend you’ve never met. […]

71F A FEW CLOUDS […]

Mostly sunny. Patchy fog early in the morning. Mainly near lakes and streams. Highs in the lower 80s. Northeast winds 10 mph or less. […]

Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. North winds 10 mph or less. […]

Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds 10 mph or less. […]

Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Light winds. […]

Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Light winds. […]

The 411 on every hazardous oil or chemical spill in the nation. […]

Berkshire Hathaway today announced the intent to buy the Bristol Herald Courier as part of its purchase of nearly all of Media General’s newspapers. […]

A fire this morning on Sanford Drive claimed the life of a Johnson City man. […]

The idea of a postal worker ripping open mail to hide a $34,368 embezzlement scheme did not sit well with U.S. District Court Judge James P. Jones on Wednesday. […]

Bristol Tennessee Essential Services is weighing a plan to use some of the utility’s cable and Internet revenues – as much as $100,000 a year – for a loan fund to support new businesses that locate in the city. […]

Media General, Inc. (NYSE: MEG) today announced that it has signed agreements with Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., (NYSE: BRK.A and BRK.B) for the purchase of newspapers and new financing. A subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, BH Media Group, will purchase all of the newspapers owned by Media General, with the exception of the Tampa group, for $142 million in cash. […]

So far, 277 students have applied for the 160 slots at the new school, developed as a partnership among Sullivan County Schools, Kingsport City Schools and East Tennessee State University. Around 60 percent of the applicants are male. Half of the students will come from Sullivan County and half will be from Kingsport. […]

Three members of the children's music quartet The Wiggles will be hanging up their colorful outfits and leaving the Australian band this year, with the Blue Wiggle the lone original member left dancing. The band has sold more than 23 million DVDs and 7 million CDs worldwide, and its TV shows are broadcast in more than 100 countries, according to The Wig […]

The song, Train's first single off new album "California 37," pulls into the chart's top bracket, completing the longest climb to the top 10 this year while Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" featuring Kimbra holds onto the No. 1 spot. […]

Billboard.biz caught up with Scooter Braun (also known by legions as "Justin Bieber's manager") at the Third Annual FlashFWD Awards on the same day his Schoolboy Records announced a label and distribution deal with UMG Chairman Lucian Grainge. Here the 30-year old entrepreneur discussed avoiding complacency, dominating the Hot 100 (thanks to B […]

The indie label Yep Roc Records announced it will celebrate its 15th anniversary with a three-night birthday party in October at the Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, N.C. featurung artists from throughout the label's history, including Nick Lowe, Robyn Hitchcock and John Doe. Yep Rock is also offering "Premiere Fan" bundles, which includes acces […]

It's the end of an era, as one of the country's first Alternative stations -- and one of the last independently owned outlets in a top 10 market -- is being sold to Clear Channel. The programming is rumored to be transitioning to either country and western or Spanish language talk radio. […]

AEG LIVE President/CEO Randy Phillips says his company is looking at a strong 2012, based on tours already on sale and those teed up for later in the year. Highlights include Enrique Iglesias with Jennifer Lopez, and Wisin & Yandel, American Idols Live!, Kenny Chesney with Tim McGraw and Justin Bieber for a tour that begins in the fall. […]

Every song can and should be an app. Songpier makes it incredibly easy for musicians to turn tunes into web apps optimized for iOS and Android smartphones, with no designers required. […]

The veteran electronic musician launches a formidable one-two punch with his new full-length, ISAM, and a visually ambitious tour that pairs the record's sonically challenging music with shape-shifting 3-D animation. […]

A pair of musicians from Washington, D.C., who go by the name Bluebrain have put together a location-aware album called The National Mall. […]

There's a reason Google's personal cloud, music-streaming service is called "Beta." It's an un-baked, no-frills service just two weeks old that some day likely will store the personal music of the masses, just like Google does for e-mail, calendar appointments, blogs, documents and photos. […]

The first song to be released in the intriguing new format, which makes music sound different every time it is played, is called "Flesh Freeze," by ex-Golden Silvers front man Gwilym Gold. […]

Jordan Gray makes music from the plinking tones of hacked handheld videogames. A former punk rocker who turned damaged toys into instruments during his high school years, he went on to make music with synthesizers and MIDI sequencers before settling on his current instruments of choice -- a vintage Nintendo Game Boy and a PlayStation Portable. […]