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Allen Dyer, lead singer and guitarist with Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road is recovering at home following prostate surgery. In June of 2020 Dyer was diagnosed with an early stage prostate cancer, and by having discovered it so soon, he had

Photo © G Milo Photography/MiloFarineauPhotography.com Tony Rice, surely the most influential guitarist and vocalist in the history of bluegrass music, died on Christmas morning. He was 69 years of age, and died swiftly without pain. Tony changed forever the way bluegrass guitar

If you have a bluegrass guitar player or student on your gift list this year, don't forget the many flatpickers who offer lessons online. Find out who their favorites are, and see what is offered from their web site. One such

Here's an early Christmas present for the whole bluegrass community - a new album from Tim Stafford. Entitled Tunes & Ballads, it contains 16 songs and tunes Tim has written, all recorded in small ensembles or solo, including 10 instrumentals and

We have a nice instrumental track to share today, from the new EP, Calamity, by Will Cassell. Will is a guitarist, singer, and songwriter from the fertile ground of southwestern Virginia, the town of Norton to be exact. Growing up in a

Chris Eldridge, guitarist with Punch Brothers and noted soloist and educator, has been named as a Visiting Associate Professor of Contemporary American Acoustic Music at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. The appointment begins with the Spring 2021 semester, running through the

On first hearing, Jordan Tice would appear to be an artist that's prone to bask in simplicity. After all, the 13 songs on his new album Motivational Speakeasy rely solely on unaccompanied songs played on acoustic guitar, sometime with vocals,

This is an update of a previous interview for the California Bluegrass Association Bluegrass Breakdown where I had the opportunity to chat with Karen Celia Heil, the versatile, passionate (and very busy) San Francisco-based American old-time fiddler and guitarist. Hello Karen,

Guitarist Jordan Tice also has a new album releasing this week, Motivational Speakeasy, which comes as something of a departure from his earlier efforts. Growing up in a Maryland bluegrass family, his earliest training was as a grasser, and his

Since 1965, the Gallagher Guitar Co. has been building high quality, handmade acoustic guitars in Tennessee. Treasured by flatpickers and finger style guitarists alike, these fine instruments attained global recognition when the great Doc Watson acquired one of their G-50