Album of the Week

I’m sure that everyone who made their way to Brown County, IN last week has had a great time at the longest running bluegrass festival in the world, Bean Blossom. I was able to attend on Saturday evening, and I

Last week, I took a hiatus from my regular Album of the Week column to celebrate the life and legacy of Jimmie Rodgers with a series of Rodgers Remembrances. Hopefully, you enjoyed learning more about the Father of Country Music. I had

Don’t worry everyone. I didn’t go anywhere. I know there was no Album of the Week last week. Another semester of college is wrapping up and I was bogged down studying the Cold War presidents, the difference between “new federalism”

In light of the sad but understandable news that bluegrass visionary J.D. Crowe is going to be retiring at the end of this year, this week’s Album of the Week is going to be an often overlooked gem from the

Following a great Easter weekend celebrating Christ’s resurrection with loved ones, I decided to choose one of my favorite Gospel albums for this Album of the Week: Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver’s Kept & Protected from 1997. Ever since their second album in

On Sunday, my father (Joe Mullins) and I sat and listened to every minute of a funeral for a man I had only been around once. Why would the passing of someone who I didn’t even know personally cause my

The Del McCoury Band is playing this weekend at the Southern Ohio Indoor Music Festival, and I am really psyched to get to see them again. Del, whose fans range from Vince Gill to Elvis Costello, is a living legend in

I like to think of Rhonda Vincent’s Back Home Again as The Lion King of bluegrass albums. Stick with me on this... The Lion King tells the story of Simba the lion who returns to the Pridelands to take his place

The other day I was listening to some music by one of the most successful acoustic groups of our time, Nickel Creek. I got to looking at some dates, and noticed that, possibly their most successful album, This Side, celebrates

This week, we celebrate four decades of recordings from one of the most prolific bands in bluegrass music: The Seldom Scene. What started out as a weekly jam session snowballed into one of the most influential bluegrass bands of all-time. Ben