Arkansas Music

The brash rockabilly star from Arkansas became a patron of the Canadian music scene and recruited a group of musicians later known as the Band.

The singer-songwriter will receive an honorary doctoral degree for her assistance in the restoration of Johnny Cash's boyhood home in Dyess.

Benjamin Victor is working on a clay model of the civil rights leader this week at UA Little Rock. Statues of Bates and singer Johnny Cash will eventually represent Arkansas in the U.S. Capitol.

The public can watch work being done on the Bates statue, while approval has been given for the design of the Cash statue. Both will represent Arkansas in the U.S. Capitol.

Nesmith, best known as a member of the made-for-TV band the Monkees, died Friday at the age of 78.

Connie Hamzy, a rock ‘n’ roll groupie from Arkansas who was immortalized as “sweet, sweet Connie” in the 1973 Grand Funk Railroad hit “We’re an American…

Kevin Kresse, who was selected to create the statue, spoke with KUAR about his appreciation of Cash and his inspiration in this project.

Ahead of an expected decision Monday, five artists who want the honor of making statues of civil rights leader Daisy Bates and music legend Johnny Cash showed models Wednesday of what their works would look like.

Country music singer-songwriter Billy Joe Shaver, who wrote some of the most memorable songs to emerge from the outlaw movement in the early 1970s, has…

Johnny Cash earned a reputation as an outlaw after being arrested and spending a handful of nights in jail for minor offenses. Contrary to popular myths,…