• Della Mae – This World Oft Can Be

    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,...

  • George Jones and Bluegrass Music

    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 Stoneman Tradition

    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...

  • Bad Girls and Banjos

    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...

  • Kim Robins – 40 Years Late

    “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...

  • The littlest ‘Duster

    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...