Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking at the Mountain View Bluegrass Festival in Arkansas.
Author: John Curtis Goad
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Behind The Mic with Rita Small
Being a bluegrass fan can be a curious thing. Some folks are born into it, listening to mom and dad play Flatt & Scruggs before they’re even out of the hospital. Others sort of just fall into it – perhaps they
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Bluegrass Weather Report – 3/4/15
Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking in on the Bluegrass On The Beach festival in Lake Havasu, AZ.
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Bluegrass Weather Report – 2/24/15
Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with a look at this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, previewing the DC Bluegrass Festival in Northern Virginia.
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Snapshots – Darin & Brooke Aldridge
Largely thanks to cheerful love songs like Corn, Lonely Ends Where Love Begins, and That’s Just Me Loving You, husband and wife duo Darin and Brooke Aldridge have become known as the “Sweethearts of Bluegrass.” While there are a few
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Hironobu Oda studies Kentucky Bluegrass… from Japan
Other than the United States, Japan has long been home to one of the largest bases of bluegrass fans. American bluegrass groups have been touring the country for decades, and several Japanese bluegrass instrumentalists have become well-known around the world.
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Behind The Mic with Larry Roberts
It’s hard to keep a good man down in bluegrass music (although we all do like to be lonesome now and then), and radio broadcaster Larry Roberts is a prime example of that. Roberts has been a DJ for almost
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Bluegrass Weather Report – 2/17/15
Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking at the Palatka Bluegrass Festival in Palatka, FL.
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Times Are Not What They Used To Be – Poor Valley Girls
The Carter Family is almost ubiquitous in every variety of traditional music – and even some more mainstream genres. It’s difficult to find a bluegrass, folk, or old-time musician who hasn’t recorded a song the Carters made famous, and artists
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Introducing Cardboard Fox
Bath, England is the latest foreign locale to contribute a group to the international bluegrass scene. Acoustic quartet Cardboard Fox has recently released its debut, self-titled EP. A collection of four band originals, the EP offers listeners a brief taste