• Donna Ulisse travelogue – Day 4

    Donna Ulisse is providing us with a diary from her visit to Russia with her band, The Poor Mountain Boys. The trip is by invitation from the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission. I just got back

  • Donna Ulisse travelogue – Day 3

    Donna Ulisse is providing us with a diary from her visit to Russia with her band, The Poor Mountain Boys. The trip is by invitation from the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission. Today (and I am not sure

  • Donna Ulisse travelogue – Day 2

    Donna Ulisse is providing us with a diary from her visit to Russia with her band, The Poor Mountain Boys. The trip is by invitation from the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission. I am not sure how to word what

  • Donna Ulisse travelogue – Day 1

    Donna Ulisse is providing us with a diary from her visit to Russia with her band, The Poor Mountain Boys. The trip is by invitation from the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission. Written from Moscow... The Poor Mountain Boys and myself have launched

  • Kenny Baker – A Retrospective

    Bill Monroe played with some fine fiddlers over the decades – Chubby Wise, Vassar Clements and Bobby Hicks, for starters. But for his 1972 tribute to Pendleton Vandiver, there was only one real choice to play the fiddle tunes that

  • Rural Rhythm heads east

    California-based Rural Rhythm Records has been one of the more aggressive labels in the bluegrass world of late, signing artists and releasing new projects with impressive frequency. It's a family business, managed by the gregarious patriarch, Sam Passamano, with assistance