Author: John Curtis Goad

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking at the Grey Fox festival in Oak Hill, New York.

In the 1940s and 50s, bluegrass music could be heard on radio stations all over the country, with many offering live performances and playing host to regular shows by Flatt and Scruggs, The Stanley Brothers, Jim and Jesse, and the

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with our Bluegrass Weather Report for this week, looking at the Wayside Bluegrass Festival in Stuart, VA.  

One of the latest sidemen to make a solo debut is bass player Matt Wallace. A Knoxville, TN native who has done stints with Newton & Thomas, Paul Williams & the Victory Trio, David Parmley & Continental Divide, and Audie

Many people believe that the best bluegrass is of the lonesome variety – trains, old homeplaces, and murderers named Willie. DJ John Sentell, however, looks more to the uplifting side of bluegrass to get his fill. As the host of

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent - from his own beach vacation - with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking at the Old Joe Clark Bluegrass Festival in Renfro Valley, KY.  

Although bluegrass music is decidedly international these days, and has been for quite some time, in all actuality, it’s really a tightly-knit, interconnected community. North Carolina DJ Bobby Franklin knows all about those connections first hand. The legendary Pop Lewis

Kentuckians are notoriously proud of their home state. The innumerable odes to the Bluegrass State sung by bluegrass musicians can testify to that. However, there are perhaps few prouder than Gary Brewer, a native of the Louisville area. On the

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with our Bluegrass Weather Report for this week, focusing on the Jenny Brook Festival in Tunbridge, Vermont.  

After performing together for the past several decades in and around their home base of southern Indiana, husband and wife duo Jim and Lynna Woolsey have released their first album together. The record, The Road That Brings You Home, is