Author: Sandy Hatley

Doyle Lawson at the 2021 Camp Springs Bluegrass Festival - photo by Gary Hatley Whether it was the night chill from pre-autumn temperatures or goose bumps from watching a historic movie on the very spot where it was filmed, Friday night

Billy Blue Records in Nashville, TN, is fast becoming one of the premiere labels in bluegrass music. In just over three years, Jerry Salley and his team have signed an impressive list of performing artists, and released attention getting projects.

Retirement is a goal for most people. Retirement from a lifetime of playing bluegrass music is rare. Retirement from performing 50 years with the same band is unheard of in bluegrass. Yet that is just what Thomas Lee "Snuffy" Smith

Who is Craig Duncan? A member of the North American Fiddlers Hall of Fame, recipient of 2018 Dove Award's Instrumental Album of the Year, and a member of Who's Who in Music and Musicians, he is quite an accomplished musician.

"It's been tough for all of us entertainers," began Billy Troy, son of famed reso-guitarist, Josh Graves. The past year was especially difficult for this professional singer/musician in particular. He nearly died after contracting COVID-19. In 2007, Troy had left his Nashville

Is your five-string ailing? If so, contact the doctor. Charlie Cushman, banjoist with the Earls of Leicester and an Earl Scruggs devotee, is a top-notch banjo set-up man as well. Working out of his north Tennessee home, Cush has a shop

Hugh Moore, an accomplished banjo picker from Raleigh, NC, learned how to utilize modern technology, to pick with friends, and share their collaborative music with others while doing it all safely and tastefully during the midst of a global pandemic.  "I wanted

Founded in 1989, Louisa Branscomb's Georgia Woodsong Songwriter Retreat is likely the oldest continuous songwriter retreat in the genre, a distinction leading to her current nomination for IBMA Mentor of the Year. In the majestic setting of the farm's rolling

Clyde Maness, proprietor of Maness Pottery and Music Barn in Carthage, NC, fell on June 30, breaking his leg (between hip and knee). He underwent surgery on July 1 and is already on the road to recovery. The 80-year-old owner started

Energetic, prolific, and talented were some of the adjectives used to describe the late Tommy Edwards during his celebration of life service. On Sunday afternoon, an eclectic group comprised of some of the red headed guitar picker's closest friends assembled