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Since 1969, ZZ Top has reigned as one of rock’s most seminal bands. Justifiably, ZZ Top sold out ETSU’s Martin Center for the Arts on Monday night in Johnson City.

Wilkes Heritage Museum, Inc. has announced that Martinsville native Jim Eanes will be inducted in the Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame.

The 16th Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame inductees, including Ray Grubb “R.G.” Absher Jr. as recipient of the Dr. T. R. Bryan Wilkes County Heritage Music Award, have been

Bluegrass music is a distinctive American genre that has been around for over a century. It emerged in the southern Appalachian Mountains and combines traditional folk music with influences from blues, jazz, and even rock and roll. With its high-energy tempos, intricate harmonies, and rapid picking of stringed instruments like the banjo, fiddle, and mandolin,