“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...