“Just be sure you spell my uncle’s name right,” my wife Linda admonished me.”It’s ‘Ervin’ with a ‘V’, not ‘Erwin.’ ” Of course I would. After all, Uncle Ervin — with a V —was the composer of “The ...

We know that Ervin T. Rouse never rode the train he wrote about. In fact, there's a chance he never saw the train at all. Yet the fiddle tune he wrote, "The Orange Blossom Special," has become a ...

Requesting the song "Orange Blossom Special" to a bluegrass band is somewhat akin to yelling "Free Bird" at a rock concert. The tune, penned more than 60 years ago, has over the years become arguably ...

While most every Southerner over the age of 50 knows the song "Orange Blossom Special," every bluegrass fan of any age today knows it, too. It used to be that any fiddle player wishing to play in a ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — If you like a little "Orange Blossom Special" then you'll love today's "My Hero." This is 89-year-old Everett Steele. He's played the fiddle most of his life and his daughter ...

At the New York Philharmonic, concertos by Samuel Barber and Wynton Marsalis offered contrasting musical ideas: lyrical ...

From 1925 through 1953, the luxury passenger train Orange Blossom Special traveled from New York City to Miami and back. Other Florida stops included Jacksonville, Ft. Lauderdale, and Hollywood before ...

It’s time to bring out holiday traditions of all sorts, including our newsroom neighbor Keith’s venerable Hanukkah garland — a whirl of tinsel stars that bedecks his computer every year. At the ...

Performing at the West Shore Theatre this Friday is the Cramer Brothers Band! The country group is playing the tribute to Merle Haggard but first they joined us for a live studio session. Here they ...

WEIRSDALE - This town is 639 miles away from Nashville, Tenn., but the sounds of the music are much closer. Judging by the resumes of members of the Orange Blossom Opry Band, the road from the Ryman ...

On July 3, 1981, Ervin Rouse, composer of “Orange Blossom Special,” the “unofficial anthem of bluegrass,” died. Plagued by alcoholism and mental illness, he was living on the edge of the Everglades ...

Hipsterized portraits of Julia Tuttle and Henry Flagler preside over the cozy dining room at the new Orange Blossom in Miami Beach, where plates of Florida-fresh grouper, scallops, radishes and ...