Tim O’Brien

Yesterday, Alison Brown and Steve Martin made a trip out to Hollywood to perform their latest single, Five Days Out, Two Days Back for Jimmy Kimmel Live on the ABC television network. In tow were Tim O'Brien on mandolin, who sings

For their next album, Paper Flowers, Tim O'Brien and Jan Fabricius have teamed up with folk music legend Tom Paxton to co-write 12 new songs. The full project isn't due until June, but a single will be available this week,

Yesterday, March 27, was the two-year anniversary of the tragic shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, when an armed intruder shot their way into the school, and killed three students and three adults. The massacre reignited debates about how

Soulful bluegrass vocalist Greg Blake has a lovely new song to start this new year, a ballad about a West Virginia boy who misses those hills of home. Bluefield Mountain Wind, written by Mark "Brink" Brinkman and David Stewart, unites Blake, a native

There's something special about holiday traditions, one that all but demands a certain reverence. Nevertheless, when a clever and creative twist is applied to cherished memories, well, suffice it to say, they can bring a certain levity to the situation

For their second single from Bluegrass Sings Paxton, Mountain Home Music's upcoming tribute album to the legendary folk singer and songwriter, Tom Paxton, Tim O'Brien is up with You Took Me In. Instead of reaching back into Paxton's deep catalog of

Topic Records has announced a September 29 release for an interesting new project that explores the convergence of British folk music and that of the Appalachian mountains of the southeastern US. It is a joint effort from a pair of

Given his extensive backstory and defining role in the advent of modern bluegrass, it would be hard to confine Tim O'Brien to any particular niche. His early efforts alongside his older sister, Mollie O'Brien, and essential role as a member

One of the foremost figures within current bluegrass realms, Tim O'Brien holds true to his standing with what may well be his best effort yet. Personable and pleasing, it finds humor, happiness, and happenstance embossed in each of these offerings,

Anyone who's followed the career of Tim O'Brien knows that he has a terrific sense of humor. From the earliest days of Hot Rize, when most of us first encountered Tim, we were treated to his extra dry wit, both