Byrdstown News

In 2007, jazz drummer and bebop innovator Max Roach passed away . Not only was the legendary drummer lost to the world, but his drums were stolen.

BYRDSTOWN, Tenn. - He's considered the father of modern jazz drumming, so how did Max Roach's stuff end up in a barn in Byrdstown, Tenn.? He was a legend who hung out with legends like Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and Duke Ellington, to name a few.

One evening last October, 17-year-old bluegrass performer Sierra Hull walked into the Highland 10 Cinema in Cookeville, Tenn., to see Billy: The Early Years , a film based on the life of the Rev.

BYRDSTOWN, Tenn. a ' Jack Poindexter of Livingston, Tenn., won the Walmart Bass Fishing League Mountain Division tournament on Dale Hollow Lake Saturday with a five-bass catch weighing 18 pounds, 7 ounces.

NASHVILLE - The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says Nashville police caught a fugitive just hours after the state agency added his name to its Top 10 Most Wanted list.

Link Webb, president of the Tennessee Walking Horse Trainers Association and trainer of current World Grand Champion Santana's El Nino, was injured in a one-vehicle crash Friday night and remained hospitalized in Nashville on Monday morning.

The Tennessee Association of Utility Districts held the Region Four "Best Tasting Water Contest" at the Del Monaco Winery and Vineyards in Baxter on Feb.

The arts and craft of the rural Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee have deep roots, stretching back to the pioneer days - and even as far back as the era of the indigenous Native American.