This report is a contribution from Tasker Fleming, host of the Front Porch Bluegrass Show which airs on WSPC (Albemarle, NC), WIZS (Henderson, NC), and WSVS (Crewe, VA), plus live streaming on Nextdoorradio.com. It celebrates the long history of WSVS
Accorded a Grammy nomination for Best Bluegrass Album for their previous album, A Tribute To Bill Monroe, it's hardly surprising that the Infamous Stringdusters would follow up with a shout-out to yet another indelible influence, that of Lester Flatt and
The Infamous Stringdusters have another concept album on tap, a second tribute to the founders of bluegrass music. Following an earlier appreciation for Bill Monroe in 2021, this time it's A Tribute To Flatt & Scruggs, a six song EP
Attention reso slidesters! Here's a great opportunity to go deep inside and study some of the foundational solos that established the bluegrass dobro style through the music of Josh Graves. In his newest video course for Rob's Reso Room, master reso-guitarist
Here's some more socially-distanced, green screened, retro bluegrass from Billy Troy, Hugh Moore, and The Country Store for OMS Records. Since COVID-19 restrictions took effect earlier this year, Hugh and his merry band of Flatt & Scruggs aficionados have been hard
High Moore and OMS Records have created another wonderful socially-distanced video featuring lead singer Billy Troy, along with Moore and several other talented bluegrass pickers, this time for a dead-on tribute to the great Flatt & Scruggs. Previous videos from this
Following an invitation that the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) extended to its members that they share a memory from “75 years of bluegrass”, we thought that we would collect a few to share with you. Beginning in February 1981 when
Following an invitation that the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) extended to its members that they share a memory from “75 years of bluegrass,” we thought that we would collect a few to share with you. Jerry Stuart was a teen
Editor's note...This article is a contribution from Harold Smith, longtime mandolinist for East Virginia, a very popular bluegrass group from the Tidewater area of Virginia in the late 1970s and early '80s. They recorded a number of solid albums for
There may be no single event in the history of bluegrass more charged with legend than the time in 1962 when Flatt & Scruggs played Carnegie Hall. Of course the LP of that live performance is among the finest they
