Author: David Morris

Usually around this time of year, cabin fever gets to me. In anticipation of the coming festival season, I play a little game, creating an imaginary festival and deciding what bands what I would invite. It’s a fun exercise, especially since

Songwriters often toil in obscurity, relegated to the fine print on CD covers, or sharing their creations with a handful of listeners and fans in writer rounds, hoping to sell a few CDs. But every once in a while, one of

I’ve been at this reviewing game for a decade now, and for most of that time I’ve assembled some sort of best-of list at the end of the year. For a while now, it’s been Dave’s Dozen. And it still

Hearing a CD from The Grascals for the first time is like having an old friend drop by. Even if you haven’t seen each other for a while, you know just what to expect and get comfortable right off the

There may be no more successful song incubator than the Lil House songwriting workshops conducted by Donna Ulisse, Jerry Salley, and Rick Stanley at Donna and Rick’s farm in Lebanon, Tennessee. The Family Sowell, Ulisse, and a handful of others have

Bluegrass music is heading for a special night at the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Owensboro, KY. Bluegrass Now is taping an all-star cast next month in anticipation of airing it on PBS, February 29, 2020. The taping, taking place

A gaggle of familiar names are among the winners of the 2019 Mike Auldridge Instrumental Composition Contest, sponsored by the DC Bluegrass Union. The first place song, Chapel Hill Deer Stalk, comes from George Jackson, a Madison, TN, fiddler who tours

I had a hard time coming to grips with the fact that Breaking In Lonesome is Rick Faris’s first recording as a solo artist. Part of it is his decade-long presence in Special Consensus, where his agreeable vocals and stellar

Every year or so, I convince myself that Darin and Brooke Aldridge’s streak of making a record that’s better than the last one will come to an end. It’s nothing more than the law of averages, really, and it happens

David Morris accepts his Writer of the Year award at the 2019 IBMA Industry Awards - photo © Tara Linhardt With another successful IBMA World of Bluegrass in the books in Raleigh, it’s time to look back at some of the