Author: David Morris

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

IBMA’s board of directors and staff are hard at work to determine how World of Bluegrass will be held in 2021. In a perfect world, of course, the business conference and music fair would be held in person in late September

The tightknit bluegrass family is pitching in in a big way to help Aaron "Frosty" Foster’s family pay his final expenses following the 28-year-old's unexpected passing Wednesday. Like many musicians, the young picker didn't have insurance, leaving unpaid medical bills and

Of all of the tributes in the wake of Wednesday’s unexpected death of bluegrass ambassador, Aaron "Frosty" Foster, this is what stands out to me the most: Several people I interviewed volunteered that Aaron was their best friend. Several older than