Jim McCown, noted bluegrass banjo player, audio engineer, and old time fiddler, passed away suddenly on October 7 in Hardy, KY. He was 80 years of age. Bluegrass audiences first came to know Jim in the early 1970s through the band
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Ask Sonny Anything… you are missing the boat on Billy Strings
Ask Sonny Anything is a recurring feature where our readers pose questions to the great Sonny Osborne, one half of the iconic Osborne Brothers who redefined bluegrass music in the 1960s, and noted banjo maven and collector of fine prewar
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The Scolding Wife – debut single from Adam Hurt’s Back To The Earth
Aficionados of old time banjo music have long regarded Adam Hurt as one of its finest contemporary practitioners. The native of St Paul, MN now living near Danville, VA, seems to please every sort of old time enthusiast through his
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Video Premiere: Thundering Herd video from Chandler Holt
Chandler Holt spent almost twenty years playing banjo with Chatham County Line, Raleigh, NC's hometown newgrass band. As a founding member of the group, he had been along for the ride as they grew from a local group to a
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Ask Sonny Anything… Leave those knobs alone!
Ask Sonny Anything is a recurring feature where our readers pose questions to the great Sonny Osborne, one half of the iconic Osborne Brothers who redefined bluegrass music in the 1960s, and noted banjo maven and collector of fine prewar
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Ask Sonny Anything… the future of bluegrass?
Ask Sonny Anything is a recurring feature where our readers pose questions to the great Sonny Osborne, one half of the iconic Osborne Brothers who redefined bluegrass music in the 1960s, and noted banjo maven and collector of fine prewar
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Ask Sonny Anything… what did you think of The Country Gentlemen?
Ask Sonny Anything is a recurring feature where our readers pose questions to the great Sonny Osborne, one half of the iconic Osborne Brothers who redefined bluegrass music in the 1960s, and noted banjo maven and collector of fine prewar
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Ask Sonny Anything… tell us about Live in Germany
Ask Sonny Anything is a recurring feature where our readers pose questions to the great Sonny Osborne, one half of the iconic Osborne Brothers who redefined bluegrass music in the 1960s, and noted banjo maven and collector of fine prewar
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Welcome Waylon Wright!
Announcing the littlest Lonesome Rambler... Jacob Wright, banjo picker with Larry Sparks, and his wife, Brooke, are celebrating the birth of their first child. Waylon Lewis Wright was born yesterday (September 8) at 2:48 a.m. in Blacksburg, VA. He made his debut
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Ask Sonny Anything… sausage and onion hoagie to go!
Ask Sonny Anything is a recurring feature where our readers pose questions to the great Sonny Osborne, one half of the iconic Osborne Brothers who redefined bluegrass music in the 1960s, and noted banjo maven and collector of fine prewar