Wayne Henderson, celebrated guitarist and luthier from southwestern Virginia, is back at home recovering slowly after undergoing surgery on May 13. The 73 year master builder of Henderson guitars and founder of the annual Wayne Henderson Festival had been briefly hospitalized to
Black Mountain Picks has introduced a thumbpick designed to function as a flatpick as well for guitarists who like to alternate between finger style and flatpick playing. Unlike many other thumbpick/flatpick hybrids currently on the market, the Black Mountain Thumbpick uses
Recording King has devised an interesting way to announce their newest series of vintage-style guitars, the Dirty 30s Deluxe. These value-priced instruments offer the look, feel, and sound of prized instruments from the 1930s at a fraction of the vintage
Here's a unique product we discovered online. It's a clamp-style guitar capo with a hardwood outer shell. While most professional and serious amateur pickers are willing to spend $100 or more for a finely crafted, lightweight capo, not many hobby guitarists
Jack Tottle (far right) with friends picking on his porch on the Big Island Chris Wejrowski, Anne Pontius, Jim Blue, Phyllis Erck, Forrest Arnold, Jack Tottle This bit of practice motivation for bluegrass pickers comes from Jack Tottle, founder and Professor Emeritus
Do you know what today is? It's National Superhero Day, when we are encouraged to honor superheroes, both real and fictional. Young and old, we can most of us remember having a favorite comic book hero, be it Superman, Wonder
The Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum in Owensboro, KY, the official repository of the history of our music, is among the many venues and destinations forced to close during the COVID19 shutdown. With potential visitors forced to stay
Folks in the bluegrass community in Florida, and those who closely follow the world of resonator guitars, know the work of Rudy Jones. His RQ Jones guitars are highly prized for the detailed workmanship he put into them, and for
Richard Greene is well known as an innovative and influential fiddle player who first attained prominence with Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys in 1966. Alongside his musical life Greene has, starting as a young teenager, been obsessed with
Deering Banjo Company in Spring Valley, CA has completed the purchase of the ProPik fingerpick brand from Mapson Engineering in Santa Clara. The various finger and thumb pick items under this brand will now be manufactured in Deering's facility. ProPik has
