John Irion, pictured while coaching Queensbury in the 2014 NYSPHSAA Class A state championship game, is the new football coach of the merged Warrensburg/Lake George/Bolton program.

Johnny Irion's family is rich in writing and music. His great uncle is John Steinbeck and his wife and collaborator is Arlo Guthrie's daughter. He talks with Scott Simon about his new album.

When John Irion arrived to take over the football program at Queensbury in 1997, the Spartans were known more for losing games than winning.

The fact that Irion can get a founding member of R.E.M. to contribute to his album - not to mention hop onto Zoom from his home in Athens, Georgia, to talk about it with Rolling Stone - speaks to ...

Irion began developing that skill while waiting tables during his youth in Durham, N.C. His parents, Ann and John, ran a Village Inn Pizza Parlor there. Irion's late grandfather, Fred Knight, had ...

Irion County will have another new football coach before it ever plays a single down of six-man football. Lee Harvey, tasked with transitioning the Hornets from the 11-man to the six-man game, was ...

A Nevada man accused of killing 18-year-old Naomi Irion, who vanished from a Walmart parking lot last year, died by suicide in jail Sunday, the Lyon County Sheriff's Office said.

"You know, John Steinbeck wrote 'The Grapes of Wrath' with a Blackwing pencil. And they were interviewing my uncle, Thomas Steinbeck, because they had basically just brought the pencil back. They had ...

Sarah Lee Guthrie is the granddaughter of Woody Guthrie, while Johnny Irion is the grand-nephew of author John Steinbeck. Since marrying in 1999, Guthrie and Irion have released five albums ...

QUEENSBURY, NY (WRGB)--The Queensbury Spartans have rushed for more than 3.300 yards this season.That's the most in Section II and it's not even close.In fact, you paced off the difference, second ...