If you watch the Kentucky Derby, you know one of the most notable pastimes is a playing of the old Stephen Foster song "My Old Kentucky Home." While it's the Kentucky state song, the ballad carries ...

Louisville author Emily Bingham won the 2025 Music in American Culture Award for her book about the song "My Old Kentucky Home." Bingham's book examines the song's history and its connection to ...

You'll hear My Old Kentucky Home sung at Churchill Downs as you usually do before the Kentucky Derby, but did you know that the Kentucky state song is actually controversial? You will now. The ...

Louisville author Emily Bingham has won the 2025 Music in American Culture Award for her book, "My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song." The award, from ...