Author: Richard Thompson

Jon Glik, 56, one of bluegrass music's top fiddlers, is fit enough able to play again after a year where he almost died, according to a report on Baltimore's Eyewitness News a few days ago. Regular readers will recall our previous

Oregon based multi-instrumentalist, Joe Ross has recently announced the release of a third album in as many years. Following Festival Time Again (released in 2006) and Spirit of St. Louis (2007) albums, both featuring all-original songs, is a new CD entitled,

Our UK correspondent, Richard F. Thompson, put together this report on an important event we missed last fall. In November the legendary folk/bluegrass singer, songwriter and activist Hazel Dickens was honored as one of the inaugural inductees into the West Virginia

Our UK correspondent, Richard F Thompson, shares this review of a project he found especially worthy. When cross-pick guitar expert and Clinch Mountain Boy James Alan Shelton was selecting the songs and tunes for this, his ninth solo CD, Walking Down

Our UK correspondent, Richard F Thompson, tells us of Curly Seckler Day in Marion, VA. I have just had a note passed to me by Penny Parsons, manager/friend and biographer to bluegrass veteran Curly Seckler. On Sunday, January 6 The Pickin' Porch

Our UK correspondent, Richard F Thompson, couples the news of this long-overdue recognition with a brief recap of Earl Scruggs' distinguished career in bluegrass. Bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs, who celebrated his 84th birthday on Sunday, will receive a 2008 Grammy Award

This installment of Sunday Morning Revelations comes from our UK correspondent, Richard F Thompson. We will offer reviews of Gospel bluegrass releases on Sunday's from time to time. Thank You Lord is Hickory Hill's first all-Gospel recording. It actually dates back

This initial installment of Sunday Morning Revelations comes from our UK correspondent, Richard F Thompson. We will offer reviews of Gospel bluegrass releases on Sunday's from time to time. Everybody is familiar with Mickey Harris and his 'day job' as the

Our UK correspondent, Richard F Thompson, shares this news. Forty years before the 'O Brother/Down From The Mountain' tour, an earlier group of like-minded musicians took some Appalachian music on the road. Thankfully, some of the music performed by the small

Dennis Satterlee, the author of the Red Allen biography Teardrops In My Eyes, has written to share some good news for Allen fans eager to get their hands on the book, though tempered with some sad news as well. It seems