Library of Congress archivist Joe Hickerson has died at 89. For decades, he worked to preserve America's collection of folk music and served as director of the library's American Folklife Center.

He was both the longtime archivist of folk music at the Library of Congress and a widely respected singer and songwriter.

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In fact, Hickerson is the reason that so much of what is known about folk music exists at all. When he died on August 17 at ...

Fifty years ago today, Glen Campbell was at the top of the country chart with a song he felt he was meant to record.

Today in Music History for Sept. 19: In 1910, Salomon Mazurette, called the King of Canadian Pianists, died in Detroit at the age of 63.

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But it will be Chadsey Explorers, not Burger King, that will be creating scrumptious food on the grill while partaking in other festive activities and fellowship with music during the Chadsey ...