James Randall, professor of music emeritus at Princeton University, died of heart failure on May 28 at his home in Princeton, New Jersey. He was 84. Composer, music theorist and author, Randall called ...

Alice Randall, a renowned country songwriter and author, recently discussed the deep connection between country music and Black history at Fisk University. Randall's work, including her memoir "My ...

Alice Randall’s My Black Country was a lifetime in the making. The Nashville multihyphenate’s new memoir and accompanying collaborative album draw from Randall’s four-plus decades as a songwriter, ...

When Alice Randall first sat down more than 30 years ago to write “The Ballad of Sally Anne” with Mark O’Connor and Harry Stinson, she wanted to use the murder ballad format to discuss a topic — ...

In “My Black Country,” the musician and author who cracked a Nashville color barrier is telling her story — and hearing her songs reimagined. By Grayson Haver Currin Reporting from Nashville The ...

Bobby Randall doesn’t see himself as a country music star. Instead, he sees in the mirror a “guy who’s been clunking along and making a living in the music business for 30 years.” Randall, a native of ...

The contributions of Black artists to country music have been marginalized, minimized, and, in some cases, wholly erased from the genre’s history. A group of songwriters, singers, activists, and ...