Author: Richard Thompson

Waltz Collection – Butch Waller

Butch Waller’s Waltz Collection (Big Chicken Records, BC 102) is a recently release, an EP length collection of six of his…

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Danny Paisley releases Weary River

Danny Paisley started playing bluegrass music over 40 years ago; he started young, he stresses. Initially that was with his long-time…

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Foggy Mountain Troubadour coming soon

We have been well served with bluegrass music books during the past year with the superb study of the Stanley Brothers’…

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Athy: end of a Chapter 

Following our recent report about the Athy Bluegrass Festival in Ireland, we now learn that organizer, Tony O’Brien, has decided that…

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Having a Coffee with …… Ron Block 

This is fun series in which we ask bluegrass music personalities, some famous, some not so famous, about some of their…

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Young Uns #3 – The Zolla Boys

The Lilly Brothers and, contemporaneously, the Gibson Brothers and the Spinney Brothers, have shown that talented musicians who play and sing…

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Gospel Choices #4 – Bob Webster 

Here’s the fourth contribution of a periodical feature, where we ask bluegrass personalities to choose their top five Gospel songs. This…

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International Bluegrass at Tir Na Nog

Occasionally, International Bluegrass has been a touchy subject with complaints that organizations like the IBMA have not paid sufficient attention to…

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Work on Niall Toner documentary begins 

Irish bluegrass musician, song-writer, radio broadcaster, and Pinecastle Records recording artist Niall Toner will be the subject of a documentary being…

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Having a Coffee with ……….Elaine Roy

Having A Coffee With… is a fun series in which we ask bluegrass music personalities, some famous, some not so well…

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#1 Bluegrass Music Charts

Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music

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