Matt Marble discusses Riley Shepard's career and music history in Stacya Silverman's blog.

Two years ago, I found out about a plan Riley hatched. He wanted to get back together with Jan and leave town.

My father said that part of his encyclopedia of folk music was burned in a fire, and that he'd have to start all over. Was it true?

Here's what I grapple with. Did my father believe his lies sometimes, or lie so often that he became confused about reality?

Riley was young in the mid-1940s. New York offered him many fantastic opportunities to find work and meet new people.

Dad was in his early 20s when the war broke out, healthy as a horse, tall, handsome, articulate. So why didn't he serve in that war?

“They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by...

My Dad introduced me to Colonel Tom Parker, telling Parker that it was my 16th birthday."Oh? Sweet sixteen and never been kissed?"

Reading through the reports from The Eastern Carolina Industrial Training School for Boys, I noticed a dramatic change in tone after the...

I was nervous and had trouble focusing when I entered the Wilson Library to study the place where my Dad was sent when he was a kid.