Author: David Morris

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

Republik Steele, a hard-driving band from eastern Kentucky, is calling it quits. Founding member Kenny O’Quinn said his last show with the band is Friday in Grayson, KY. Vocalist Dave Adkins confirmed that he, too, is leaving the band, which developed

On his first trip to the United States a few years back, Richard Cifersky said he absorbed so much about groove and feel from bluegrass musicians he jammed with at IBMA and elsewhere. He also learned, from Ron Block, about

When you lay down your cash to hear Jim Hurst pick and sing, you never know what you’re what going to hear, but you can bet you’ll get your money’s worth. That was certainly the case Monday for the 25 or