Here's a special opportunity for folks in east Tennessee - if they act fast! This weekend's two-night engagement with Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out at The Down Home in Johnson City will feature two special guests in an exciting and uncommon format. In addition to performances featuring 30 years of music from Russell and [...]
With the announced departure of Colby Laney as guitarist with Volume Five, the band has announced a couple of big changes. Jacob Burleson will switch from mandolin to guitar, and the band will welcome the big daddy, Adam Steffey, into the group on mandolin. Glen Harrell, fiddler and lead vocalist for Volume Five, tells us [...]
Can any song be turned into a bluegrass number? And furthermore, should it? Those are the questions I found myself asking as I listened to Dwight Yoakam’s new album, with the tongue-in-cheek title, Swimmin’ Pools, Movie Stars.... Yoakam lined up a backing band full of bluegrass music’s top talent and (unlike several other nineties country stars [...]
Here To Stay, Adam Steffey's new album from Mountain Home Music, is one his fans have been hoping for this past ten years or so. We had a chance to discuss the new record with him last week while he was traveling to a show. Steffey consistently refers to himself as a "band guy," someone who [...]
We caught up with mandolin ace Adam Steffey over this past weekend, after learning that he had been in the studio tracking for a new solo project. But he didn't want to talk about that. He's all fired up about the upcoming Boxcars release, Familiar With The Ground, due to hit later this month on the [...]
The Boxcars, the five-piece bluegrass supergroup that has been a concert and festival headliner since they hit the scene in 2009, have announced some big news for the start of the New Year. According to mando man Adam Steffey, they have some new music coming out shortly, and have made a change with their booking representation. "We have been working with [...]
East Tennessee State University's school of Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music Studies has announced the hiring of two new lecturers for the program. Both bring specific credentials and experience to bear on their new positions, and have connections to the school and this program. Adam Steffey is well known within the bluegrass community for his [...]
We heard today from Boxcars mandolinist Adam Steffey with an update following his elbow surgery last week. Fortunately, it seems that the surgery went well to repair an irritated ulnar nerve that was causing pain in the ring and little fingers of his left hand. "I had the surgery last Thursday morning at Vanderbilt Hospital [...]
Just like the instruments they play, sometimes bluegrass musicians themselves need a bit of a tune up. Mandolin master Adam Steffey will be headed in soon to try to fix a pesky irritated nerve that has been bothering him recently. According to Steffey, he had been experiencing a bit of pain in his left elbow [...]
Nick DiSebastian has just released a transcription book that accompanies Adam Steffey's New Primitive album. It includes standard notation, tablature, and chords for all 13 tracks on the album. This album was something of a departure for Steffey, who had made his bones playing blazing bluegrass music. Here the focus was more on old time [...]
Here's a special opportunity for folks in east Tennessee - if they act fast! This weekend's two-night engagement with Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out at The Down Home in Johnson City will feature two special guests in an exciting and uncommon format. In addition to performances featuring 30 years of music from Russell and [...] 
With the announced departure of Colby Laney as guitarist with Volume Five, the band has announced a couple of big changes. Jacob Burleson will switch from mandolin to guitar, and the band will welcome the big daddy, Adam Steffey, into the group on mandolin. Glen Harrell, fiddler and lead vocalist for Volume Five, tells us [...] 
Can any song be turned into a bluegrass number? And furthermore, should it? Those are the questions I found myself asking as I listened to Dwight Yoakam’s new album, with the tongue-in-cheek title, Swimmin’ Pools, Movie Stars.... Yoakam lined up a backing band full of bluegrass music’s top talent and (unlike several other nineties country stars [...] 
Here To Stay, Adam Steffey's new album from Mountain Home Music, is one his fans have been hoping for this past ten years or so. We had a chance to discuss the new record with him last week while he was traveling to a show. Steffey consistently refers to himself as a "band guy," someone who [...] 
We caught up with mandolin ace Adam Steffey over this past weekend, after learning that he had been in the studio tracking for a new solo project. But he didn't want to talk about that. He's all fired up about the upcoming Boxcars release, Familiar With The Ground, due to hit later this month on the [...] 
The Boxcars, the five-piece bluegrass supergroup that has been a concert and festival headliner since they hit the scene in 2009, have announced some big news for the start of the New Year. According to mando man Adam Steffey, they have some new music coming out shortly, and have made a change with their booking representation. "We have been working with [...] 
East Tennessee State University's school of Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music Studies has announced the hiring of two new lecturers for the program. Both bring specific credentials and experience to bear on their new positions, and have connections to the school and this program. Adam Steffey is well known within the bluegrass community for his [...] 
We heard today from Boxcars mandolinist Adam Steffey with an update following his elbow surgery last week. Fortunately, it seems that the surgery went well to repair an irritated ulnar nerve that was causing pain in the ring and little fingers of his left hand. "I had the surgery last Thursday morning at Vanderbilt Hospital [...] 
Just like the instruments they play, sometimes bluegrass musicians themselves need a bit of a tune up. Mandolin master Adam Steffey will be headed in soon to try to fix a pesky irritated nerve that has been bothering him recently. According to Steffey, he had been experiencing a bit of pain in his left elbow [...] 
Nick DiSebastian has just released a transcription book that accompanies Adam Steffey's New Primitive album. It includes standard notation, tablature, and chords for all 13 tracks on the album. This album was something of a departure for Steffey, who had made his bones playing blazing bluegrass music. Here the focus was more on old time [...] 