Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking at the Boxcar Pinion Festival in Chattanooga, TN.
Author: John Curtis Goad
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The Coast – Wood & Wire
Austin, Texas-based band Wood & Wire, which has recently released its second full-length album, The Coast, is one of the most energetic young bluegrass bands I’ve heard recently. Their music is an interesting combination of rough and polished, where solid
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Bluegrass Weather Report – 4/21/14
Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking at the inaugural Rocky Top Bluegrass Festival in Rocky Top, TN.
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Bluegrass Weather Report – 4/14/15
Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking at the Arcadia Bluegrass Festival in Maryland. Go be with 'em.
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Different Shade of Blue – New River Bluegrass
Since their beginnings a decade ago, upstate South Carolina’s New River Bluegrass has focused on bluegrass Gospel music, even hitting number one on the Singing News bluegrass chart in 2013 with When I Look Back Down the Road from their
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Bluegrass Weather Report – 4/7/14
Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking at the Big Lick Bluegrass Festival in Oakboro, NC.
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Another Bristol Spring Fest remembrance
One of my favorite things to do – something I like better than almost anything else – is to attend bluegrass festivals. The great performances, the jamming, the chance to catch up with friends I haven’t seen since the last
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Bluegrass Weather Report – 3/31/15
Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking at the Florida State Bluegrass Festival in Perry, FL.
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Bluegrass Weather Report – 3/24/15
Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking in on three big events going on in Ohio, Virginia, and South Carolina.
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Rail River & Road – Nightflyer
Ohio-based band Nightflyer has named their second album Rail River & Road – a fitting name that neatly sums up the themes of the majority of the thirteen songs within. They sample from a number of popular bluegrass songwriters here,