Author: John Curtis Goad

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking at Danny Stewart's Florida Sunshine Bluegrass Festival.  

Hard-driving modern traditional bluegrass is everywhere these days. Songs that fall into this category usually hit on all of the bluegrass standards – heartbreak, moonshine, trains, etc. – but rarely do you ever hear Gospel music with that banjo-fueled, heavy-hitting

Bluegrass musicians who perform Gospel music usually choose from one of several paths. There’s the traditional style of bluegrass Gospel, made classic by Flatt and Scruggs, The Stanley Brothers, and the like. There are the a capella numbers favored by

While traditional bluegrass has been on an upswing over the past few years, so have a number of varieties on the edge of the genre which blend bluegrass instrumentation with everything under the sun. The Dirty River Ramblers, a new

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with the final Bluegrass Weather Report of the year, looking at the New Years Bluegrass Festival in Jekyll Island, GA.  

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with the Bluegrass Weather Report, Christmas 2013 edition.  

For most bluegrass fans, the name “Reno and Harrell” instantly brings to mind the 1960s band fronted by bluegrass legends Don Reno and Bill Harrell. However, some folks may have caught that name popping up once again at bluegrass shows,

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with a 2013 year-end review of the Bluegrass Weather Report.  

Bluegrass groups covering songs from other genres is not a new trend – even Bill Monroe and Flatt and Scruggs occasionally covered pop, country, or rock numbers. Today, it’s a rare album that can be found without at least one

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, previewing Christmas In The Smokies.