Author: John Curtis Goad

Ohio-based band Nightflyer has named their second album Rail River & Road – a fitting name that neatly sums up the themes of the majority of the thirteen songs within. They sample from a number of popular bluegrass songwriters here,

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking at the Mountain View Bluegrass Festival in Arkansas.  

Being a bluegrass fan can be a curious thing. Some folks are born into it, listening to mom and dad play Flatt & Scruggs before they're even out of the hospital. Others sort of just fall into it – perhaps

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking in on the Bluegrass On The Beach festival in Lake Havasu, AZ.  

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with a look at this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, previewing the DC Bluegrass Festival in Northern Virginia.  

Largely thanks to cheerful love songs like Corn, Lonely Ends Where Love Begins, and That’s Just Me Loving You, husband and wife duo Darin and Brooke Aldridge have become known as the “Sweethearts of Bluegrass.” While there are a few

Hironobu Oda (center) with Leona and J.P. Mathes Other than the United States, Japan has long been home to one of the largest bases of bluegrass fans. American bluegrass groups have been touring the country for decades, and several Japanese bluegrass

It’s hard to keep a good man down in bluegrass music (although we all do like to be lonesome now and then), and radio broadcaster Larry Roberts is a prime example of that. Roberts has been a DJ for almost

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking at the Palatka Bluegrass Festival in Palatka, FL.  

The Carter Family is almost ubiquitous in every variety of traditional music – and even some more mainstream genres. It's difficult to find a bluegrass, folk, or old-time musician who hasn't recorded a song the Carters made famous, and artists