“Just be sure you spell my uncle’s name right,” my wife Linda admonished me.”It’s ‘Ervin’ with a ‘V’, not ‘Erwin.’ ” Of course I would. After all, Uncle Ervin — with a V —was the composer of “The ...

We know that Ervin T. Rouse never rode the train he wrote about. In fact, there's a chance he never saw the train at all. Yet the fiddle tune he wrote, "The Orange Blossom Special," has become a ...

Famous fiddle tune “The Orange Blossom Special” is to many bluegrass musicians as Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird” is to many rockers. Famous fiddler Michael Cleveland won’t turn up his nose at an “Orange ...

WEIRSDALE is 639 miles away from Nashville, Tenn., but the sounds of the music are much closer. Judging by the resumes from members in the Orange Blossom Opry Band, the road from the Ryman Auditorium ...

WEIRSDALE - This town is 639 miles away from Nashville, Tenn., but the sounds of the music are much closer. Judging by the resumes of members of the Orange Blossom Opry Band, the road from the Ryman ...

It’s time to bring out holiday traditions of all sorts, including our newsroom neighbor Keith’s venerable Hanukkah garland — a whirl of tinsel stars that bedecks his computer every year. At the ...

From 1925 through 1953, the luxury passenger train Orange Blossom Special traveled from New York City to Miami and back. Other Florida stops included Jacksonville, Ft. Lauderdale, and Hollywood before ...

Performing at the West Shore Theatre this Friday is the Cramer Brothers Band! The country group is playing the tribute to Merle Haggard but first they joined us for a live studio session. Here they ...

There’s Appalachian, Cajun, Southern Plains and Americana among the varying styles of the United States’ homegrown folk and country music. But Florida-born-and-raised Van Plating has added another to ...