No... that's not a stigmata on Russ Carson's right hand. The crackerjack banjo picker with Ricky Skaggs is just off a full month of banjo rest following carpal tunnel surgery. This inflammatory disorder has afflicted a number of banjo players. It
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Sixteen Tons from Clay Hess
Bluegrass super picker and bandleader Clay Hess has a new single to share this week, his cut of the Merle Travis classic, Sixteen Tons. This hard core coal mining song was first recored by Travis in 1946, though it was Tennessee
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Online guitar workshop with Jake Workman
Jake Workman with Ricky Skaggs at the 2023 Bloomin' Bluegrass Festival - photo by Nate Dalzell Jake Workman, the superb flatpick guitarist with Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, will be offering a four-week online course on bluegrass guitar next month through
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Ricky Skaggs Christmas tour next month
OK... we've held off as long as we could, but the time of bluegrass Christmas music is upon us. We know that many people get annoyed by holiday music this early in the year, but artists want to make sure
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Darin & Brooke win AGM bluegrass award in a tie with Ricky Skaggs
Brian Smith, Brooke Aldridge, Darin Aldridge, and Jerry Salley at the 2023 AGM Awards Darin & Brooke Aldridge were honored to accept the Bluegrass Artist of the Year Award on April 18 at the 22nd Absolutely Gospel Awards in a rare
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When I’m Gone at the Jettie Baker Center
There have been plenty of events in bluegrass music history that live on as legendary, even magical, moments when the genre was changed forever. From Earl Scruggs's debut at the Opry as a Blue Grass Boy to Carlton Haney's first
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When I’m Gone – musical play about Ralph Stanley, Ricky Skaggs, and Keith Whitley
The Jettie Baker Center in Clintwood, VA will host a three night run next month of When I'm Gone, a new musical play that centers around that fateful night in 1970 when Ricky Skaggs and Keith Whitley were discovered by
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Jordan video from Darin & Brooke, with Ricky Skaggs and Mo Pitney
Darin & Brooke Aldridge have released a music video for their latest single with Billy Blue Records, the gospel classic, Jordan. The song has been recorded a number of times in bluegrass, including by The Stanley Brothers, but many folks think
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Ricky Skaggs joins Keith & Kristyn Getty on Confessio
Keith and Kristyn Getty are known in the contemporary Christian music world as modern hymn writers of note. Their newly-composed pieces are used in churches throughout the English-speaking world, and appear in most non-denominational hymnbooks. Born in Northern Ireland, the couple
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Welcome Elizabeth Rose Workman!
Congratulations to Jake and Rebekkah Workman on the birth of their second child. Jake is the guitarist with Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, and Rebekah is a talented bluegrass fiddler. Elizabeth Rose Workman was born on July 17, coming into the