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I hope the holiday season has treated you well, that the relatives who gave you that sweater that was two sizes too small saved a receipt, and that you didn’t get sick of Christmas Times a-Comin’ before Christmas time actually

Keith Lawrence, the esteemed journalist at the Owensboro Messenger-Enquirer, has been writing about bluegrass music for the newspaper since 1985. Additionally, he has a blog, Bluegrass Notes, which he has been writing since 1991. Earlier this month Lawrence published his Ten

This CD is for the old timers—unapologetic “old school” traditionalists. My people… Us “old foggies” know the locomotive sound and feel of a Paul Warren fiddle breakdown with Lester Flatt, Cousin Jake, Uncle Josh, and Earl Scruggs - or one of

I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas. My household was filled with the giving and receiving of Stanley Brothers’ LPs, Merle Haggard DVDs, the new Crowe Brothers record, and Lonesome Dove. I had a great time spending time

Russell Moore and Steve Dilling from IIIrd Tyme Out are next weekend's guests on Best of Bluegrass on Radio Bluegrass International (RBI). The guys spend 45 minutes with host Bob Mitchell sharing stories. Bob tells us that their discussion includes "talk about a longtime

How much does the US State Department’s American Music Abroad initiative want to include bluegrass as a part of its 2012 overseas musical offerings? Enough to warrant a special contact to Bluegrass Today in hopes of reaching bands and ensembles interested in month-long,

Flat-picking guitar wizard Clay Hess has parted ways with Sierra Hull and Highway 111 and is putting together his own band for the 2012 festival season. Clay's last gig with Sierra was Dec. 10. He called his departure "kind of a

Depending on where you stand on the question of multiple banjo bands, this video posted by the American Banjo Museum may delight or repulse you. It features the Next Generation Banjo Band from the Windsor Banjo Club performing an all-banjo arrangement

A lot of fine pickers are nominated for IBMA awards every year, and a chosen few get to cross the stage and pick up a statue. But with five or six nominees in a category, that still leaves plenty of

This post is the first in what will be a series of articles on prominent west coast musicians who may not be familiar names back east. Ed Neff is a mandolin and fiddle player from Petaluma, California. Though those are his