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Todd A. Price, USA TODAY Published 12:11 pm UTC Feb. 22, 2021 Louis Armstrong Photo: Library of Congress, Illustration: Brian Gray, USA TODAY Network As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive series, Hallowed Sound. NEW ORLEANS, La. — Saxophonist Donald Harrison, when he listens to the earliest jazz recordings, hears even older sounds. In the playing of those Black musicians from the early 20th century, Harrison discerns elements forg...

12:32 pm UTC Feb. 19, 2021 The famed Jubilee Singers of Fisk University rehearse May 10, 1952, for an upcoming concert. Photo: Robert C. Holt Jr., The Tennessean, Illustration: Brian Gray, USA TODAY Network As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive series, Hallowed Sound. NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Steal away, steal away home, I hain't got long to stay here.”  In the mid-19th century, you’d hear those words echoing across the fields of O...

How are Triad area live music venues faring during the COVID-19 pandemic? Not well. Most have shut down temporarily and worry about the financial impact. Now they await help through

12:19 pm UTC Feb. 17, 2021 Muddy Waters Illustration: Brian Gray, USA TODAY Network As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive series, Hallowed Sound. CLARKSDALE, Miss. — Two men — one Black, one white — arrived at Stovall Plantation on the last day of August 1941.  John Work III, a professor from Nashville’s Fisk University, and musicologist Alan Lomax had set out to capture recordings of the music of the rural South ...

4:12 pm UTC Feb. 16, 2021 Country music trailblazer Charley Pride Photo: Ricky Rogers, The Tennessean, Illustration: Brian Gray, USA TODAY Network Enable the ambient audio feature Enable the ambient audio feature This audio enhanced story is best with headphones. Turn audio on Turn audio off As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive series, Hallowed Sound. Intertwining Black and white communities shaped country music. Decades before Ente...