While hoping to only get an audition for American Idol, John Foster watched as his voice carried him all the way to the finale. Competing during season 23, the country singer gained a great deal of ...

On this day (October 29) in 1952, Hank Williams was at No. 1 on all three of the Billboard country charts with “Jambalaya (On the Bayou)”. It spent 11 weeks atop the Most-Played Juke Box Country & ...

This week in 1952, Maine, Massachusetts and South Caroline were added to a disaster list during a drought, hundreds began the first claim-staking rush in a new uranium find in Saskatchewan, the worst ...

Hank Williams, though a native of Montgomery, Alabama, was also no stranger to the Louisiana Bayou. He first achieved widespread notoriety as a member of the Louisiana Hayride, a one-time rival to the ...

Hank Williams died all too soon, just over 70 years ago when he was only 29. But in those few years, he touched the world with songs like “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry,” “I Saw The Light,” “Cold Cold ...

An all-star set of practitioners of timeless country music — plus members of Hank Williams' family carrying on his creative vision — performed a stirring concert at the Country Music Hall of Fame and ...

“Jambalaya (on the Bayou),” the title of the toe-tapping Hank Williams song, is also the name of the one-pot Louisiana dish that’s hard to stop eating. The recipe, a Cajun spin on Spanish paella, is ...