Each year since 1991, new members have been added to the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame. Since the inaugural class of Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt, and Earl Scruggs, numerous other bluegrass and traditional music greats have been honored for
Author: John Curtis Goad
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Session 1 – Sideline
While bluegrass isn’t a summer-only music, it’s no secret that the warmer months are well suited to the festivals, camping, and late-night jams beside of campfires and picnic tables that bluegrass fans love so well. Many bluegrass artists slow down
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Three Chords and the Truth – James King
James King, whose knack for choosing well-written songs that work their way into listeners' hearts and minds has helped earn him the title of "Bluegrass Storyteller," has a keen ability to wrap his voice around every ounce of emotion in
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Bluegrass Weather Report – 10/15/13
Once again, our Special Bluegrass Correspondent is here with the Bluegrass Weather Report for this week, looking at the Rockahock Bluegrass Festival in Lanexa, VA.
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Johnson City Sessions celebrated this weekend
While the 1927 Bristol Sessions, in which the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, and other early country music acts recorded some of their first songs, is well-known as the “Big Bang of Country Music,” it certainly wasn’t the only early country
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Bluegrass Weather Report – 10/7/13
Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with the Bluegrass Weather Report for this week, with a look at two - count 'em - two festivals this weekend: one in Palatka, FL and the other in Wincheter, KY.
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Ten from Nu-Blu
Bands often mark milestone anniversaries with new collections of their music – greatest hits albums, or in the case of the Lonesome River Band this past year, fresh recordings of their greatest hits. Nu-Blu, which is celebrating ten years as
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Bluegrass Weather Report – 10/1/13
Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent, back from IBMA, with the Bluegrass Weather Report for this week, looking at the Outer Banks Bluegrass festival in North Carolina this weekend.
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Bluegrass Weather Report – Pickin’ with Walter
Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent - and a new assistant SBC - with another bonus edition of the Bluegrass Weather Report for the final day of IBMA in Raleigh. Today's episode covers the banjo flash mob at the statue of
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Bluegrass Weather Report – 9/27/13
In honor of IBMA week in Raleigh, here's a bonus edition of the Bluegrass Weather Report, featuring our Special Correspondent, John Goad, and several guests.