Author: John Curtis Goad

One of the few places you can hear bluegrass music on the radio today in many cities is on college or university radio stations that are generally staffed by students, professors, and community volunteers. DJ Richard Gordon has a lot

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking at the Greater Downstate Indoor Bluegrass Festival in Springfield, IL.  

An album which begins with the vocal quartet of Larry Stephenson, Jimmy Fortune, David Parmley, and Dale Perry can’t help but be good, and Pull Your Savior In, the newest effort (and fifth all-Gospel project) from the Larry Stephenson Band,

It’s a common story in bluegrass music: mountain boy moves north, but tries to keep his roots close. Most of the time in songs, there’s a powerful lonesome ending to the story, but southeastern Kentucky native Colonel Terry Thacker has

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

Hundreds of thousands of people, if not more, around the planet are fans of bluegrass music. However, few can say that they helped introduce it to a particular part of world. In the early years of bluegrass music, it was

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking at South Carolina's Mostly Bluegrass Festival in Edisto Island.  

Brandon “BB” Bowles, a well-known face in the North Carolina/Virginia bluegrass scene, died Sunday, October 19, in a car accident in Davie County, North Carolina. Bowles, 32, of Rural Hall, NC, was returning home from a friend’s house about 1:00

Orin Friesen (left) with Jimmy Martin and J.D. Crowe For some DJs, radio is a casual weekend hobby. For others, it's a career. For Midwest native Orin Friesen, who celebrates his fiftieth year in radio this month, it's been a lifelong

There’s been an awful lot of good music coming from the hills of east Tennessee lately, particularly in the area around the small town of Cumberland Gap. That’s in large part thanks to Steve Gulley, whose Curve Studio is located