Intelligent Thought + Intelligent Music = Intelligent Voice Americana music has a voice. Folk music IS a voice. Bluegrass music seems content to exist in a self-created climate of politeness and keeping your head low. It is rare for bluegrass music artists to share
Bluegrass Today Profiles
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Having a Coffee with ……………. Doyle Lawson
Having A Coffee With… is a fun series in which we ask bluegrass music personalities, some famous, some not so well known, about some of their interests, as well as about the music that they love. Doyle Lawson probably doesn’t need
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Carl Goldstein – Delaware Bluegrass
This is the second of an occasional series of features on personalities in the bluegrass music world. Carl J Goldstein is a co-founder (in 1971), and now Chair, of the Brandywine Friends of Old Time Music (BFOTM) and a Director of
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Songwriter Profile – Ray Edwards, Melody Man
James Ray Edwards was born in Wilmington, Delaware, on April 16, 1954. His family moved to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, which is a hotbed for bluegrass music, when he was 10 years old. As they say, you can shake a tree in
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Artist2Artist: Frank Solivan – Preshow Routine & the *Ether* World
Okay, before some of you go all-diesel on me, I am aware that many of our bluegrass music bands have a bus (and some have two) for their performance tours along the bluegrass ribbon of highway. In my recorded interview with Frank Solivan below, my reference to a bus as it
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It’s country… it’s bluegrass… it’s The Roys
Call it what you want–bluegrass, country, or inspirational–it’s clear that The Roys are in a trajectory to be one of the top bands in the business. Lee and Elaine Roy talked about their roots, milestones and their current success just before
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On This Day #35 – Flatt & Scruggs
On This Day ….. On October 24, 1951, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs recorded ‘Tis Sweet to Be Remembered and Earl’s Breakdown. During an afternoon session at the Castle Studio set up at The Tulane Hotel, 206 8th Avenue North, Nashville, Flatt
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Having a coffee with…… Gena Britt
The pioneering banjo player from North Carolina Gena Britt is my companion in our local coffee shop today. Britt fell in love with the sounds of bluegrass music at a very early age and began her career as an award-winning clogger.
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Artist2Artist: Robyn Taylor – Quieting the Nashville Noise
I recently interviewed Robyn Taylor (RobynTaylorMusic.com) for my Artist2Artist radio show. Our conversation took place at Eddie’s Attic in Decatur, Georgia just outside of Atlanta where Robyn would be performing later that evening. I have interviewed other musical artists at this
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Artist2Artist: Byron Berline – Fence Jumper
In the pursuit of creativity, a true artist relies on a counter-intuitive vision to see and develop opportunities that others miss. Yes… counter-intuitive. They travel to where others won’t, and they believe in who they are and what it is