• Rob & Trey headed for the old country

    Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley are taking their acoustic bluegrass/country show to Europe for a ten day run of shows next month. The powerhouse guitar and reso-guitar duo, set off by Trey's soulful singing, will be making their first visit

  • Rob and Trey in Sarasota

    Last week when Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley were making a run through Florida, with sold out shows in Sarasota and Suffer, they stopped by the Sarasota Herald Tribune to record an episode of their Ticket TV web program. Rob and Trey

  • Gaven Largent to Blue Highway

    In a surprise to no one who has been following the world of dobro playing of late, Blue Highway has announced that Gaven Largent has been chosen to join the band on the heels of original member Rob Ickes' departure. Gaven

  • 2015 ResoSummit scholarship went to Adam Birkeland

    The 2015 Houston Caldwell Scholarship to Rob Ickes' 9th annual ResoSummit, held November 12-15 in Nashville, went to 15-year-old Adam Birkeland from Duluth, MN. Each year Rob and his ResoSummit co-produer Betty Wheeler, choose a young picker of special merit to attend the weekend

  • Rob Ickes leaving Blue Highway

    The streak is over! For 21 years Blue Highway held the distinction of holding together with its original, founding members. Despite a brief exit by Jason Burleson, who returned not long after, the same five talented musicians have remained with the group

  • Three new Rob Ickes instructional videos

    Dobro wizard Rob Ickes has not one, not two, but three new instructional videos offered for sale from his web site. Each covers a specific aspect of his award-winning style, and is offered for $25. Volume 1 is titled Slower Tempo Songs and

  • Friday video at World of Bluegrass 2015

    Here's a group of videos captured at various venues here at Wide Open Bluegrass 2015 on Friday. Bud's Collective in the Marriott Hotel   In Jayme Stone's Lomax Project, he researched the tunes and songs from Alan Lomax's catalogs and brought them back

  • Places I’ve Been – Gold Heart

    Had you been thinking, "I wonder what happened to Gold Heart?" I know I had when I ran into them at the IBMA's World Of Bluegrass convention last September in Raleigh. Tori Gold, the eldest of the three singing Gold sisters