While most bluegrass albums contain at least a few updated versions of old standards, there’s also some great new original music coming out these days. Milan Miller, the writer behind recent fan favorites Caney Fork River (Balsam Range) and Pretty
Author: John Curtis Goad
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The Sky is Weeping – Jimmy Bowen
Numerous bluegrass artists performing today got their start in the late 1980s and '90s, helping to solidify the country-tinged mix of traditional and contemporary bluegrass that is so popular these days. One of these artists is Jimmy Bowen, who, after
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Blue Side of the Moon – Blue Moon Rising
Although they have been through numerous personnel changes in just over a decade as a band, Blue Moon Rising has consistently released albums full of well-written modern traditional bluegrass tunes. With their latest album (their sixth as a band), Blue
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Bluegrass Weather Report 7/30/13
Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with the Bluegrass Weather Report for this week, focusing on the Osborne Brothers Festival in Hyden, KY.
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The Hallelujah Side – Travis Alltop
While many of us think of hymns as the traditional, organ or piano accompanied songs we grew up singing in church, bluegrass musicians have long made a habit of adapting these sacred numbers to fit their style of music. One
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Bluegrass Weather Report – 7/23/13
Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with the Bluegrass Weather Report for this week, focusing on the activities this weekend at RockyGrass in Colorado.
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Endless Ocean – The Tuttles with A.J. Lee
Young musicians are on the rise in bluegrass these days. Of course, there have always been exceptional teens making their mark on the genre – J.D. Crowe with Jimmy Martin, Ricky Skaggs and Keith Whitley joining the Clinch Mountain Boys,
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Early for a Thursday – Jaywalkers
Like the United States, England has experienced several folk revivals over the past century, leading to a renewed interest in traditional and acoustic music, and even the establishment of an annual folk awards show by one of the United Kingdom’s
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Bluegrass Weather Report – 7/16/13
Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Weather Report, zeroing in on the Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival.
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Building Bridges – The Snyder Family
Over the past several months, we’ve written several times about the Generation Bluegrass films, which feature a number of young, up-and-coming bluegrass musicians, including several family bands which have seen their music reach a wider audience since the premiere of