DOLLY PARTON, NORMAN BLAKE AMONG THE ARTISTS ON ANTHOLOGY OF TRADITIONAL AMERICAN MUSIC FROM THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS, ‘ON TOP OF OLD SMOKY: NEW OLD-TIME SMOKY MOUNTAIN MUSIC’ In the image of the fiery phoenix’s rebirth, Great Smoky Mountains Association is set to launch its third album of traditional American musicContinue Reading
What does it mean to be a woman of the Smokies? While author Courtney Lix spent more than five years researching and writing her way to an answer, the Gatlinburg, TN, native – like Dorothy in Oz – actually knew the appropriate response all along. “To me, it means toContinue Reading
‘Carroll Best’ CD Earns Prestigious Bluegrass Award Nomination by Lisa Duff Great Smoky Mountains Association’s “Carroll Best and the White Oak String Band” has been named among the best of the year by earning an award nomination in the International Bluegrass Music Association’s annual competition. GSMA’s compilation of old-time SmokyContinue Reading
by Lisa Duff The Great Smoky Mountains Association has announced the release of a new edition of “Our Southern Highlanders,” the classic collection of essays on mountain life and lore by author Horace Kephart, who lived in the Hazel Creek and Bryson City, NC, areas from 1904 to 1931 andContinue Reading
Chronicles History of GSMNP by Lisa Duff As one of the largest and wildest national parks in the East and as America’s most visited national park, Great Smoky Mountains has a long history that is both dramatic and highly influential. “Unlike most western parks, which were carved from vacant, publicContinue Reading
