Bluegrass is one of the unheralded stars of the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, thanks to 17-year-old Alaskan, Lydia Jacoby. After she was a surprise winner of the gold medal in the 100-yard breaststroke, reporters clamored to know more about the new
Author: David Morris
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Donald Dowdy passes
Donald Dowdy, whose powerful vocals helped fuel the The Bluegrass Brothers and The Dowdy Brothers, passed away Thursday. He was 34 years old. His death was caused by a heart attack, his brother Steven said, and he had been ill for
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RIP Byron Berline, fiddler who seemed larger than life
Sometimes we bid farewell to incredibly gifted musicians, once-in-a-generation talents who leave an indelible imprint on our music. And sometimes, we say goodbye to incredibly kind and loving people, who leave an indelible imprint on our hearts. Byron Berline, who died Saturday
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Missy Raines coming home to bluegrass
Missy Raines is getting ready to celebrate a return to post-pandemic normalcy with another return – to her roots. The nine-time IBMA bass player of the year is booking dates and planning to record with her new band – her new
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Six Degrees of Separation – Wilson Banjo Co.
I hear a lot of bluegrass music that is good but not necessarily different – do we really need, for instance, another cover of I'll Fly Away, or another Alison Krauss sound-alike female vocalist? So when something fresh and new comes
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IBMA greenlights 2021 World of Bluegrass in Raleigh
Here's some of the best news we’ve reported in a while: hotel rooms and tickets for IBMA’s World of Bluegrass go on sale next week, the surest sign yet that the event will return to in-person status in Raleigh this
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Bluegrass Troubadour – Danny Paisley
Danny Paisley doesn't wear fancy stage clothes and doesn't add lots of gimmicks and adornments to his guitar playing. With a voice like his, he doesn't need any of those things to establish his bluegrass credentials. He just steps up to
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Live bluegrass is back… bring on World of Bluegrass!
Bluegrass lovers enjoying live music at the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival - photo by Frank Baker Last Friday night, in Kodak, TN, Darin & Brooke Aldridge were no more than a few measures into Tear Stained Letter when I scribbled in my
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Still Here – Steve Gulley & Tim Stafford
The ultimate irony in Still Here, the stellar project from Tim Stafford and Steve Gulley, is that one of them no longer is. But before Gulley died last year after a short fight with cancer, he and Stafford finished most of
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Station Inn owner J.T. Gray passes
J.T. Gray, who transformed the Station Inn into a must-make stop amid Nashville's glitzier clubs, died over the weekend, the venue's Facebook page announced Sunday. He was 75 years of age. Gray, inducted into the Bluegrass Hall of Fame in September,