John Treadway of Taylorsville, NC has been announced as the newest member of Big Country Bluegrass. He will be playing banjo and singing harmony with the southwest Virginia band, filling the spot vacated recently when Lynwood Lunsford left after nine years
If you ever want to fire up a room full of bluegrass fans, just ask them to define traditional bluegrass. Some will define it as the original 1945-46 Blue Grass Boys. Some will expand it to include a few second
Here's another gallery of Frank Baker's images from the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival earlier this month.
Rebel Records has released a single, Bluefield West Virginia Blues, from their upcoming album by Big Country Bluegrass. It's a new song from Tom T. & Dixie Hall and Troy Engle, telling of a time when Tom T. encountered an exceptional banjo
Frank Baker has shared this gallery of photos he took at Bluegrass on the Grass, held on the campus of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania this past weekend.
From the comments we get, it's clear that many of our readers are fans of country music as well as bluegrass. So for those of you who follow the Nashville scene, here's a fun story. On superstar Mirada Lambert's new album,
Grady Andrew Bullins died Monday (3/17/14) in Stokes, NC at 82 years of age. He had performed with Charlie Monroe many years ago, and later with Roy McMillian and High Country, Cecil Hall and the Dominion Bluegrass Boys, and Southern Partners. More
On This Day ……….. On January 7, 1987, Big Country Bluegrass, based in Troutdale, Virginia, was formed. The ultra-traditional band was named after the Jimmy Martin instrumental Big Country, a tune that he recorded with J. D. Crowe on November 22, 1966.
Southwest Virginia’s Big Country Bluegrass continues to remind us what hard-core traditional bluegrass sounds like with their new CD Memories of the Past, scheduled for release next week. It is axiomatic that Memories of the Past (Rebel REB-CD 1848) should have
Rebel Records has released a first single from their upcoming album from Big Country Bluegrass, Memories Of The Past. The track is I'm Putting On My Leaving Shoes, a new song from Tom T. & Dixie Hall and Troy Engle. It demonstrates
