Author: David Morris

Unless you’ve been sleeping under a log since Bill Monroe last stepped on a stage, you know that Michael Cleveland is one of the best fiddle players to call bluegrass home. But if you weren’t at the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival

Music has been part of her life for longer than 17-year-old Jaelee Roberts can remember. Her earliest memories are of being backstage at the Opry when dad Danny Roberts, mandolin player and founding member of the Grascals, played there. But even

Jim Lauderdale’s newest record is also his oldest. Like a treasure unearthed from a time capsule, it’s a perfectly preserved artifact from a particular point in time, in this case 1979. The short history of the Yep Roc CD, Jim Lauderdale and

Darin and Brooke Aldridge had time to spare before their evening set at the Coleman Station Bluegrass Festival last Saturday in southwestern Pennsylvania, so they took side roads instead of their usual turnpike route. In the process, they made a new

About the time that Tom T and Dixie Hall were being announced as new members of the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame on Wednesday – cause for joy for songwriters everywhere – the writing community was hit with sad news.

(Editor’s Note: This article is drawn from an interview the author conducted for his radio show, Songwriter Showcase, which will debut next month at bluegrasscountry.org.) Jim Lauderdale and Roland White have a pile of records between them. Lauderdale alone just passed

Some things seem destined to be mysterious. For beginning bluegrassers, figuring out how to play a solo is one of those things. Now fiddle and mandolin player and teacher Nate Lee from the Becky Buller Band is here to sweep away

Blue Mafia is pulling off the bluegrass highway for at least the rest of 2018, while guitarist and founder Tony Wray enjoys his ride with Tyminski and fiddler Kent Todd takes on a full-time job and focuses on his family. The

It’s early to start thinking about the 2019 IBMA awards, given that the finalists for this year haven’t been selected yet. But I already have a frontrunner for next year’s recorded event of the year, the award that goes to a

It no longer surprises me when drums show up on a bluegrass record. When everybody from Irene Kelly to the Lonesome River Band and Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers is using percussion on their projects, it’s clear their use