Author: John Curtis Goad

Back in June, we reported to you about the Barefoot Movement, a young folk group with roots in the ETSU Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music Studies program. The band has recently released its second album, Figures of the Year,

While most bluegrass albums contain at least a few updated versions of old standards, there’s also some great new original music coming out these days. Milan Miller, the writer behind recent fan favorites Caney Fork River (Balsam Range) and Pretty

Numerous bluegrass artists performing today got their start in the late 1980s and '90s, helping to solidify the country-tinged mix of traditional and contemporary bluegrass that is so popular these days. One of these artists is Jimmy Bowen, who, after

Although they have been through numerous personnel changes in just over a decade as a band, Blue Moon Rising has consistently released albums full of well-written modern traditional bluegrass tunes. With their latest album (their sixth as a band), Blue

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with the Bluegrass Weather Report for this week, focusing on the Osborne Brothers Festival in Hyden, KY.  

While many of us think of hymns as the traditional, organ or piano accompanied songs we grew up singing in church, bluegrass musicians have long made a habit of adapting these sacred numbers to fit their style of music. One

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with the Bluegrass Weather Report for this week, focusing on the activities this weekend at RockyGrass in Colorado.  

Young musicians are on the rise in bluegrass these days. Of course, there have always been exceptional teens making their mark on the genre – J.D. Crowe with Jimmy Martin, Ricky Skaggs and Keith Whitley joining the Clinch Mountain Boys,

Like the United States, England has experienced several folk revivals over the past century, leading to a renewed interest in traditional and acoustic music, and even the establishment of an annual folk awards show by one of the United Kingdom’s

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Weather Report, zeroing in on the Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival.