When Del McCoury needs a new song, he doesn't enlist a cohort of co-writers or entrust one of Music Row's famed publishing houses. He goes to the mailbox. Songwriters — from Canada to California and, ...

On his newest release, "Once Again," bluegrass elder statesman Del McCoury leans into a swaggering, swinging, piano-led shuffle; blue as blue can get. "It's the same night after night, heart broke on ...

HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. — He's a 64-year-old grandfather with a green Cadillac in the drive and a weedy flower bed in the yard. Yet to legions of roving young tie-died "Del Heads," Del McCoury and his ...

Although he isn't credited with inventing the genre, McCoury, 74, is considered bluegrass royalty, having performed for more than 50 years. "If there's a king of bluegrass, his name is Del," said ...

The sound passing through Preservation Hall's ancient wrought iron gates on a recent afternoon was both familiar and foreign. Inside, members of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band barreled through the ...

The Del McCoury Band, headed by 66-year-old patriarch Del McCoury, is back on tour to promote their new release, The Company We Keep. The album, released under the family’s new record label, McCoury ...