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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 heard that a million times when I was girl,” Louisa told me the other night.

Johnny Staats is likely best known for being a bluegrass picking UPS truck driver. After the release of his first album, Wires and Wood, in 2000, this West Virginia mandolin player found himself featured in the New York Times, the

Anyone who's toured as a performer knows that amid the joys of being on stage and the camaraderie with fellow musicians, there are the pangs of guilt and loneliness from missing loved ones. The birth of a child is often

We are sorry to report that Geoff Morris, long-time Australian bluegrass radio host, has passed away after a brief and bitter battle with cancer. Geoff had announced at the end of last year that he would suspend his Wall-To-Wall show on World

Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out have been busy little bees this past few months, and it has taken its toll on one of the most gifted vocalists in bluegrass. If you caught any of their shows in February, you will

Rural Rhythm Records has announced a March 26 release for The Back Forty, the next CD from Marty Raybon & Full Circle. The title was chosen to mark Marty's 40 years in the music business, reflecting on the next four decades.

We never cease to be enchanted by the youthful vigour of young musical talent.  Young Uns in bluegrass go back as far as Earl Scruggs pictured with his banjo-playing older brother Junie. Since then, there has been a young Sonny Osborne

Another bit of bluegrass whimsy  in a compact package from the one and only Jr. Williams, this time from the great state of Texas.  

For the past six months we have been following the medical saga of Chris Wade, the young banjo picker with Marty Raybon & Full Circle. In September of 2012, the 24-year old was given a diagnosis of Osteosarcoma, a form of

The tales of road antics from bluegrass musicians are many, from J.D. Crowe putting toy cars in Phil Leadbetter’s dobro to Keith Whitley impersonating the late Lester Flatt over CB radio to Earl Scruggs’ tour bus. Similar situations often arise