Blue Highway

New music from Blue Highway is always good news, and it's been roughly three years since we've had any. So the release of this debut single from an upcoming album is certainly a bright spot in a chilly December. It's a

Blue Highway has a well-earned reputation for consistently choosing and recording the very finest new material introduced in the bluegrass genre. With four of the five members on board for the band's entire run of nearly thirty years, three of

This is a feature we are running to memorialize the creative and musical legacy of the late J.D. Crowe, who we lost just before Christmas. We are calling it My Favorite Crowe Lick, and each episode will feature a prominent

A new two-day bluegrass festival hosted by perennial favorites Blue Highway will debut this fall in southwestern Virginia. Blue Highway Fest will premiere October 7-8 in Big Stone Gap, a small community of less than 6,000 located in Wise County, near

Good news for Blue Highway fans! The band's landmark 2012 appearance on Mountain Stage, West Virginia Public broadcasting's flagship program, is set to rerun this weekend on the dozens of NPR affiliates that carry the program all over the US. Running now

Rob Ickes has announced a new course on the music of Blue Highway at Rob's Reso Room, his subscription-based instructional site sponsored by Big Tent Music. Though he performs these days as part of a duo act with guitarist/vocalist Trey Hensley,

Blue Highway fans have a chance this holiday season to win some one-of-a-kind prizes in the band's 25th Anniversary giveaway this week and next. In an abbreviated 12 days of Christmas motif, there are six chances to enter, one daily from

All too often, critics, pundits and the public as a whole seem intent on defining music by genre, opting for generalization simply for the sake of confining certain sounds to a comfortable niche. That, of course, isn’t only unfair, but

Over the past 25 years, I doubt if I have more regularly anticipated something as much as a new Blue Highway CD. Ever since their first release in 1995, It's A Long Long Road, this group has introduced new classics

Here we are at the beginning of a new year, when bluegrass bands reshuffle the decks, and sidemen make the jump from group to group. We've already seen some major moves, exacerbated this time around by the dissolution of HighLand