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This remembrance of the great Doc Watson comes from Tim Stafford, guitarist with Blue Highway and co-author of Still Inside - The Tony Rice Story. Doc Watson set the mold for flatpicking, and it was pretty much an accident. But not

This remembrance of the late Doc Watson comes from Andy Falco, guitarist with Infamous Stringdusters. How A Great Artist Can Change A Life:  Doc Watson, Rest In Peace My parents are music lovers, and music was and still is a big part

This welcome progress report comes from Phil Leadbetter, noted resonator guitarist (J.D. Crowe, Wildfire, Grasstowne, The Whites), and everyone's favorite Uncle Phil. As many of you know, I was diagnosed in March 2011 with Hodgkin's Lymphoma. This is a form of

Frank Baker has uploaded a big batch of photos from Saturday at the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival. Looks like a full day of music.

Here are Frank Baker's photos from Thursday night at the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival. He is busily uploading more images from the rest of the weekend, and we will post them over the next day or so.

Many thanks to West Virginia author Betty Dotson-Lewis, who has agreed to let us share her 2007 interview with Everett Lilly as a remembrance of his passing yesterday. It is excerpted from her book, The Sunny Side of Appalachia: Bluegrass from the

We had a pair of photographers shooting yesterday in Norfolk, VA at the Town Mountain concert. They performed on the lawn at Norfolk's lovely Heritage Museum, and from all accounts put on a whale of a show. Thanks to Bryan Brough

David Dufresne is the CEO of Bandzoogle, a website platform for independent musicians. Bandzoogle was founded in 2003, and tens of thousands of musicians have built their website and host it using Bandzoogle’s easy-to-use tools. The Internet is a big and

This remembrance of Levon Helm is a contribution from Happy Traum, co-founder of Homespun Music Instruction. “The first show I remember was Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys on a summer evening in 1946, when I was six years old.

Laura Tate Ridge sent along these photos from the Earl Scruggs tribute, held on stage as part of the Big Lick Festival in Oakboro, NC on April 13.