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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Bluegrass mandolinists and long-time fans of traditional bluegrass music are well acquainted with David McLaughlin. He's been involved in several popular bands since he first started performing actively in the late 1970s, and has been responsible for clarifying how Monroe-based
