Kip Martin's friends filled a church sanctuary Sunday in Crofton, MD, opening their hearts and wallets for the ailing bass player. The former Sunny Mountain Boy was hundreds of miles away, surrounded by family in a hospice setting near Nashville, where
In the face of adversity, the bluegrass community is once again coming together to help one of its own. While bassist Kip Martin lies gravely ill in a Nashville hospital, bluegrass friends hundreds of miles away are planning a benefit to
Before we get too far down the path in 2014, we at Bluegrass Today wanted to offer one last remembrance and tribute to the pickers, promoters, DJs and friends of bluegrass who left us in 2013 and are now playing
It’s a good thing Dave Adkins and Edgar Loudermilk just finished putting their new band together. They have a gig today at the Jekyll Island (GA) Bluegrass Festival. The gig came about by accident, a couple weeks before Adkins & Loudermilk
My mailbox and inbox overflowed with music in 2013, as sure a sign as any that bluegrass is alive and well. There’s good news and bad news about that. The good news is that much of that music was very well
The good news about bluegrass, Ricky Skaggs said Thursday at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, is that it’s attracting new generations of fans and talented pickers. The bad news, he added, is that those fans are just like younger
Some unpleasant news for bluegrass pickers and other musicians: The latest bid for recording artists to earn royalty payments for songs played on AM-FM radio is likely to stay bottled up in Congress. Any chance of this bill succeeding where similar efforts
John Miller is back in action after a four-month absence to battle tongue cancer. Miller’s emotional return to the stage came Saturday night when The Travelers played at the Lucketts, Va., community center. If Miller hadn’t talked about his illness from
Dave Adkins and Edgar Loudermilk both had pretty good gigs going when they chatted backstage at the Musicians Against Childhood Cancer festival earlier this year. They wrote a song together, then another, and a couple more after that. They sang and
Mountain Fever Records is releasing the first single today from an upcoming solo album from Dave Adkins. It’s a song that Adkins wrote, called Pike County Jail. The song, a full-throttle bluegrass take on crime and redemption, was prompted by the
