The Essentials for a Perfect Bluegrass Summer
Well, summer is here, although bluegrass fans know summer starts when you attend your first outdoor bluegrass festival of the season. (You know I'm right!)...
Well, summer is here, although bluegrass fans know summer starts when you attend your first outdoor bluegrass festival of the season. (You know I'm right!)...
Recently we discussed bluegrass urban legends, but it has since come to my attention that we have a lot bigger things to worry about, and...
More and more young, traditionally-based bands are finding success in the wider world of music. While many of these groups get their start in bluegrass,...
As has already been noted, George Jones had a significant influence on bluegrass music, most notably on those whose voice was still being formed in...
The Carter Family has arguably the best known family music legacy in traditional music, with such artists as Lorrie Carter Bennett (Maybelle’s granddaughter, who is...
Despite his proper status as a bluegrass icon, IBMA Hall of Famer Doyle Lawson is an everyday kind of guy. Taught to work hard for...
Louisa Branscomb didn’t, as Stephen Foster might have put it, come from Alabama with a banjo on her knee. She couldn’t. Girls didn’t play banjo. “I...
“I started writing in 2007 and decided to put my songs on a demo CD. The engineer thought we had something special so we contacted...
Travis Book, bassist and vocalist with The Infamous Stringdusters, and his wife, singer and songwriter Sarah Siskind, are celebrating the birth of their first child. Ruby...
Numerous country musicians have made the short leap to bluegrass in recent years, perhaps most notably Marty Raybon and Joe Diffie. These artists had already...