Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with our Bluegrass Weather Report for this week, focusing on the big Bean Blossom festival in Indiana.
Author: John Curtis Goad
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Five – Balsam Range
Over the past few years, North Carolina’s Balsam Range has established itself as one of the most consistent hit-producing and award-winning bands in bluegrass music. Now, coming off of the success of 2012’s Papertown (last year’s IBMA Album of the
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Cut to the Chase – Kathy Kallick
Story songs have a long history in bluegrass and other forms of traditional music. From murder ballads to train songs, from lost love to the Civil War, bluegrassers love to tell and hear a good story. On Kathy Kallick’s latest
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Behind The Mic with Annette Grady
While many people have strong opinions about how to best preserve and promote bluegrass music, most of us can agree that it’s important for younger generations to step in and help keep the music we all love alive. North Carolina
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Bluegrass Weather Report 6/10/14
Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking at the Festival Of The Bluegrass in Lexington, KY.
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Behind The Mic with Ernie Evans
Behind The Mic is a new feature which we hope will be a weekly column highlighting the many bluegrass broadcasters who report their spins for our Bluegrass Today Weekly Airplay Chart. We want to give them a little bump for helping us create
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James Alan Shelton, RIP
Just a few months after the passing of his guitar hero George Shuffler, longtime Clinch Mountain Boy James Alan Shelton has passed away in Kingsport, TN. James had been diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer of the liver and pancreas just
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Down on the Farm – The Stevens Family
Family bands are nothing new in bluegrass music, although in recent years it seems the focus has been on siblings who have shown musical prowess at a young age, rather than on the entire family unit. West Virginia’s The Stevens
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Bluegrass Weather Report – 6/3/14
Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent (and his Special Assistant) with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking at the Tallgrass Music Festival in Skiatook, OK.
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Hat Creek Recording Company
In bluegrass music, most of the attention is usually focused on the musicians themselves – they are the ones in the spotlight, after all. However, sometimes we forget to think about the men and women behind the scenes who work