Music

Bluegrass fans remember Dewey Brown as the fiddle player with Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys. He was Ralph's final fiddler, right up until his passing. When Ralph II took over the band, Dewey moved with his wife, Leslie, down

The Clay Hess Band has released the first single from their upcoming album, coinciding with the band's appearances at the SPBGMA conference this weekend. They've chosen a country classic from Kitty Wells, Cold and Lonely (Is The Forecast For Tonight), and

Best known for the Grammy award-winning classic song, Gentle on My Mind, recorded by the recently-deceased Glen Campbell, and the ground-breaking album Aereo-Plain, John Hartford was a serious student of the fiddle, composing hundreds of tunes during his lifetime.  Hartford died

Kentuckian Gary Brewer knows how to run a family business. Together with his dad and his sons, Brewer runs a farm, a Tae-Kwon-Do academy, and a bluegrass band. And it's not just the menfolk. The Brewer ladies are knee-deep in

4th & Goal was written by Paula Breedlove and Brad Davis, a writing partnership that began way back in 1989.  It began life as a song for a film soundtrack, but in the process Davis changed the timing from that of

Despite the highly descriptive name, The Monroe Mandolin Camp is not just for students of the mandolin style pioneered by the Father of Bluegrass. The five-day workshop includes instruction on banjo, fiddle, guitar, and bass as well as Big Mon's

The two finger old time banjo style, played for generations in eastern Kentucky and North Carolina, largely lost the b battle to the three finger approach popularized by Earl Scruggs in the late 1940s. So much so that very few musicians

Word of the formation of the Highland Travelers earlier this month set the bluegrass world on its ear. Following the sad news of the breakup of The Boxcars, followed by the imminent demise of Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice, it

Students of bluegrass music in today's world may not always recognize what an embarrassment of riches they now have at their disposal. Books galore, online and DVD video, and instructional workshops and camps are widely available, where even 20 years

2016 was the breakout year for ClayBank. The hot new bluegrass group from North Carolina knocked the socks off the bluegrass world with live appearances and band competition performances. Much of the attention was generated by their young mandolinist Zack Arnold,