Legendary bluegrass fiddler Tex Logan was hospitalized over the weekend, diagnosed with an emergency hypertensive crisis. He is 85 years of age, and being tended at Morristown Memorial Hospital in New Jersey. Tex, who worked in the 1950s with Bill Monroe and
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver are among the unstoppable objects in the music world, recording and touring now in their 34th year. Together since Doyle Lawson stepped away from The Country Gentlemen in 1979, the band has seen dozens of personnel
The Bluegrass Mix is bringing a new show into their roster on Monday (4/8) when True Blue Radio, hosted by Leevon DeCourley, goes out over the Internet. The show will be recorded each week in the studios of Pure Country C106.1, KWKZ-FM in Cape Girardeau,
West coast mandolin master John Reischman has a new album of instrumental music, which he calls Walk Along John. Like his varied career, the album's 14 named tracks (with one secret) feature the stylistic mix his many admirers have come to
Pete Wernick has announced the names of two youngsters from western North Carolina as scholarship winners for his Bluegrass Jam Camp in Boomer, NC later this month. Liam Purcell, 10, of Deep Gap and Kinsey Green, 14, of Boone are both
I can be something of a language bore, and it simply offends my sensibilities to type the word "forums." I can hear my dearly departed mother, a life-long English teacher, correcting my usage: "The plural of forum is fora!" But this
Here's a somber sounding new video from Germany. It's a new release from The Wortmann Brothers, featuring Ulrich Wortmann on banjo and vocals. Watching the video for the first time, with its gray, gritty industrial scenes and lonesome banjo accompaniment, I thought
Jaywalkers is an interesting and eclectic English string band from southeast of Liverpool who have developed quite a reputation among fans of modern acoustic music in the UK. They have a pair of albums, Early For A Thursday and 16
Legendary grasser Melvin Goins has brought a new look to his touring band, Windy Mountain, for the 2013 season. "Our new banjo player is Mike French. Mike has been playing the banjo for 40 years and has played with some of
Since the International Bluegrass Music Association was formerly chartered in 1985, we've seen it grow and change as all trade organizations do. And like any group with a strong contingent of traditionalists, IBMA has members and followers who have resisted
