• Sunday Morning Revelations – Thank You Lord

    This installment of Sunday Morning Revelations comes from our UK correspondent, Richard F Thompson. We will offer reviews of Gospel bluegrass releases on Sunday's from time to time. Thank You Lord is Hickory Hill's first all-Gospel recording. It actually dates back

  • Sunday Morning Revelations: Kneel And Pray

    This initial installment of Sunday Morning Revelations comes from our UK correspondent, Richard F Thompson. We will offer reviews of Gospel bluegrass releases on Sunday's from time to time. Everybody is familiar with Mickey Harris and his 'day job' as the

  • Sunday Morning Revelation debuts this week

    Starting this Sunday (12/30), we will launch a new semi-regular feature on Bluegrass Today. Our UK correspondent, Richard F. Thompson, will offer comments on new Gospel music releases in a series of posts he calls Sunday Morning Revelation. The first will

  • American Folk & Country Music Festival

    Our UK correspondent, Richard F Thompson, shares this news. Forty years before the 'O Brother/Down From The Mountain' tour, an earlier group of like-minded musicians took some Appalachian music on the road. Thankfully, some of the music performed by the small

  • Cedar Hill on Poverty Row

    Our UK correspondent, Richard F Thompson, shares this review. Cedar Hill is renowned for its adherence to the ultra-traditional style of bluegrass and nothing much has changed with the group's switch from Hay Holler Records to the recently-formed Blue Circle Records

  • Benny Williams remembered

    Our UK correspondent, Richard F Thompson, remembers Benny Williams, and recounts his long, and largely unheralded career in bluegrass and country music. Benjamin Horace "Benny" Williams: March 28, 1931 - October 11, 2007. Benny Williams died earlier this month in St Thomas

  • Red Henry – Up Helton Creek

    Our UK correspondent, Richard F Thompson, shares this review of a CD he found to be especially worthy. Red Henry has been playing mandolin since the 1960s and he soon developed into what a Bluegrass Unlimited reviewer described as "one of

  • More on The Gents Live reissue

    Our intrepid British correspondent digs even deeper into the vaults for an update on the mistaken personnel credits listed on the new Gentlemen reissue. Further to our recent discussions regarding the Country Gentlemen Folkways CD, Going Back To The Blue