Bluegrass print media news

Ralph Stanley - the Good Doctor, the Dean of Mountain Music, and one of the few survivors from the earliest days of bluegrass music - is the subject of a feature in the current (January/February) edition of Garden & Gun

The Station Inn, a Nashville landmark for bluegrass music lovers for nearly 40 years, has been chosen as among the 2013 South's Best Bars in Southern Living magazine. They made the list this year in the Live Music category, along with

The February edition of Acoustic Guitar magazine is now available from news stores. The main attraction is the cover story of much-vaunted Mumford And Sons, described by the magazine as Chart-Topping Folk-Rockers, but embraced as well by bluegrass fans who inhabit

2013 holds much in store with books about the first generation bluegrass musicians promised. Firstly, in February, the University Press of Mississippi will publish Lonesome Melodies: The Lives and Music of the Stanley Brothers (ISBN-13: 978-1-61703-646-0) written by David W. Johnson. Carter and

Many of the early bluegrass songs came from the Carter Family repertoire and that material continues to be endearing. The family story and that of their music is fascinating and has already been the subject of three books; John Atkins’ The

Vintage Guitar magazine has released the 2013 edition of their Price Guide. The book, once again, includes historical and pricing information for banjos, on top of their regular coverage of acoustic and electric guitars, mandolins, amplifiers, and basses. The Guide is published

Popular fan magazine, Bluegrass Music Profiles has announced that their current September/October issue will be the last. From their launch in 2003, BMP focused on the personalities behind the music with interviews designed to get to know influential figures in bluegrass,

Thursday, September 27 is the 85th anniversary of Josh Graves's birth in Tellico Plains, Monroe County, TN. To mark the occasion the University of Illinois Press is hosting a birthday party, launching their new book about Graves - Bluegrass Bluesman:

Although Bill Monroe never ordained it as the 'sixth child', the Dobro® / resonator guitar has become a mainstay in the instrumental line-up in many bluegrass bands. That it has is due to Burkett Howard 'Josh' Graves, the subject of a

Tom Adler, author of Bean Blossom, last year's University of Illinois Press history of Bill Monroe's bluegrass festivals and the Brown County Jamboree, is featured in a new Q&A on the U of I web site. The subject of the interview