The documentary “Up the Ridge” takes a sobering look at how a rural community in Southwest Virginia embraced the prison industry after the town’s primary employer, a coal company, went out of business ...

WHITESBURG, Ky. (AP) - Some call the unusual blend of rural and urban music hillbilly hip-hop. Others call it hick-hop. The collaboration of banjos, fiddles and drums set to a beat that would leave a ...

I'm Farai Chideya, and this is NEWS & NOTES. In some ways, Troy Coleman looks like your average cowboy. He's tall and wears an oversized hat, big boots and a shiny belt buckle. But this Texan is ...

DALLAS - Cowboy Troy can't walk into a concert venue without turning heads. He knows there's no way a 6-foot-5-inch black country rapper can escape the curious stares. Especially when he's wearing a ...

June Lockhart, actor known for "Lassie" and "Lost in Space," dies at 100 College Football World Lost for Words Over ...

It began when prisoners from urban jails were moved to new "supermax" facilities in rural Appalachia. The racial tension between white corrections officers and black inmates could be felt throughout ...

Colt Ford is a little bit rap, rock and hip-hop, but if you ask him, he’s 100 percent country. “Most people listen to all kinds of stuff. They don’t just listen to one thing,” said Ford, aka former ...

The Reverend Jeff Mosier and his merry band of bluegrass brethren are taking the stage with an all-new bag of tricks. They’re calling their sound psychedelic hick-hop bluesgrass and their band ...

What would you get if you tossed the Charlie Daniels Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Eagles, KISS, ZZ Top, Run-D.M.C. and LL Cool J in a blender? Probably something that looks and sounds an awful lot like ...