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Johnson Mountain Boys

  • David McLaughlin and Marshall Wilborn honored by the Virginia legislature

    April 7, 2022 | by John Lawless

    David and Marshall with Johnson Mountain Boys in London (1987) - photo by Richard Thompson and at the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival (2013) - photo by Ted Lehmann In recognition of the Johnson Mountain Boys having been inducted into the Bluegrass Music Hall

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  • Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame artist inductees for 2020

    June 26, 2020 | by David Morris

    The newest performers inducted into IBMA’s Bluegrass Hall of Fame finally and definitively answered the big question in bluegrass. The question: Traditional or progressive? The answer, with today’s announcement of the pending induction of the Johnson Mountain Boys and New Grass Revival,

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  • Johnson Mountain Boys tribute show at Lil’ Johns

    May 10, 2019 | by John Lawless

    David McLaughlin, Marshall Wilborn, and Dudley Connell with the Johnson Mountain Boys at Nacogdoches Bluegrass Festival in Texas (July 4, 1987) - photo by Rick Gardner Lil John's Mountain Music Festival and their host band, Sideline, have come up with something special

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  • Seneca Rocks or Johnson Mountain Boys?

    February 27, 2018 | by John Curtis Goad

    Bluegrass fans, hold on to your seats – if you can get one – the Johnson Mountain Boys are back! (Almost, anyway.) Dudley Connell, David McLaughlin, Tom Adams, and Marshall Wilborn recently announced they will be performing a house concert

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  • Our Top 10 bluegrass songs for Christmas

    November 29, 2016 | by John Curtis Goad

    We’ve carved the turkey. We’ve packed up the leftovers, and got them back out fifteen minutes later to finish off. We’ve fought through the crowds at Wal-Mart to score a good deal on a TV, and checked our phones every

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  • On This Day # 15 – Richard Underwood

    July 14, 2013 | by Richard Thompson

    On This Day …. On July 14, 1956, Richard Underwood was born in Seabrook, Maryland. The 57 year old is best known for his hard-driving banjo playing for the Johnson Mountain Boys, that great neo-traditional band of the 1980s. Underwood first experienced bluegrass

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  • Rodgers Remembrance Vol V: Blue Yodel #1 (T for Texas)

    May 25, 2012 | by Daniel Mullins

    This week we are going to remember the life and times of America’s Blue Yodeler, the Singing Brakeman, and the Father of Country Music: the late, great Jimmie Rodgers. On Saturday, May 26, Jimmie Rodgers will have been gone 79

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  • Johnson Mountain Boys reunion this summer

    February 3, 2011 | by John Lawless

    Breaking news from our pal Katy Daley at WAMU's Bluegrass Country... In an on-air discussion this morning with Dudley Connell about The Johnson Mountain Boys, it was announced that they will be doing a couple of reunion shows this summer. Performances

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  • Dudley Connell talks Seldom Scene on Bluegrass Country

    June 18, 2010 | by John Lawless

    Back in February, WAMU's Bluegrass Country ran an extended interview with Dudley Connell. The piece ran 3 hours, and the response from listeners all over the world caught the staff by surprise. They quickly scheduled a number of re-airings, and

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  • Dudley Connell melts the switchboard

    February 25, 2010 | by John Lawless

    Over this past weekend, WAMU's Bluegrass Country ran the first 3 hours of the lengthy interviews they are conducting with Dudley Connell.He spoke in depth with Katy Daley and Lee Michael Dempsey about having grown up in the DC bluegrass

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