Our intrepid Bluegrass Today IT Director, Eric Tapp, snapped this photo at an Interstate rest area near Savannah, GA. Abigail Washburn is prominently pictured in an advertisement for the Savannah Music Festival which kicks off later this month. Not sure how
One of the classic Bill Monroe songs of all time is Footprints in the Snow. Despite the fact that Bill claimed authorship under the pseudonym Rupert Jones, the song was much older. According to Neil Rosenberg, Bill learned it in the
Do you love resonator guitars, or have a fondness for furry friends? Maybe both? Frank Harlow has donated one of his jumbo cherry resonator guitars to Ohio's Fayette County Humane Society, which is being raffled as a fundraiser. All proceeds from the raffle
As we reported yesterday, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver were feted Monday afternoon in the Tennessee State Senate with a resolution honoring Doyle, his current band and their manager, Josh Trivett, for the band's many contributions to bluegrass Gospel music over
I was happy to see the headline earlier this month for a story written by my friend and current bandmate, Buckwheat Green, about one of the great bluegrass venues of days gone by, The Rose Garden Inn. However, after reading
Rob McCoury is spending his Monday at Centennial Medical Center in Nashville. After suffering a fall over the holidays, he developed a blood clot in his leg which had grown to a size that required surgical intervention. The procedure was done
Reason magazine has put together a video followup to the legal controversy that arose last summer when a pair of federal agencies raided the Gibson Guitar company in Nashville. Large stocks of valuable wood were seized by armed agents, along
While checking my Facebook account back in November, I ran across a post from an old friend, Rick Pardue. He and Tommy Long were having a reunion show at a venue down in North Carolina called Harry’s Place. I believe
I recently had the great pleasure of renewing my acquaintance with one of the great banjo players of the 1970s and '80s (and now for that matter), Mike Lilly. He and Wendy Miller are forever joined in history as part
This July at the Uncle Dave Macon Days festival in Murphreesboro, TN, two fabulous banjo players will receive awards for their lifetime contributions to the instrument. Macon, of course, was the legendary entertainer who used frailing banjo to accompany himself during
