Blue Highway has a well-earned reputation for consistently choosing and recording the very finest new material introduced in the bluegrass genre. With four of the five members on board for the band's entire run of nearly thirty years, three of them top songwriters, that shouldn't be surprising, but is a remarkable feat all the same. [...]
This is a feature we are running to memorialize the creative and musical legacy of the late J.D. Crowe, who we lost just before Christmas. We are calling it My Favorite Crowe Lick, and each episode will feature a prominent bluegrass banjo player sharing both their thoughts about Crowe and his influence, and showing us [...]
A new two-day bluegrass festival hosted by perennial favorites Blue Highway will debut this fall in southwestern Virginia. Blue Highway Fest will premiere October 7-8 in Big Stone Gap, a small community of less than 6,000 located in Wise County, near the far western tip of the state. This part of Virginia has suffered greatly [...]
Good news for Blue Highway fans! The band's landmark 2012 appearance on Mountain Stage, West Virginia Public broadcasting's flagship program, is set to rerun this weekend on the dozens of NPR affiliates that carry the program all over the US. Running now for more than 30 years with original host Larry Groce, Mountain Stage has become [...]
Rob Ickes has announced a new course on the music of Blue Highway at Rob's Reso Room, his subscription-based instructional site sponsored by Big Tent Music. Though he performs these days as part of a duo act with guitarist/vocalist Trey Hensley, it was as a founding member of Blue Highway that most people recognized Rob's [...]
Blue Highway fans have a chance this holiday season to win some one-of-a-kind prizes in the band's 25th Anniversary giveaway this week and next. In an abbreviated 12 days of Christmas motif, there are six chances to enter, one daily from December 26-31. Then on New Years Day, winners will be chosen with as many [...]
All too often, critics, pundits and the public as a whole seem intent on defining music by genre, opting for generalization simply for the sake of confining certain sounds to a comfortable niche. That, of course, isn’t only unfair, but it also denies opportunity to get to know the music for the quality and creativity [...]
Over the past 25 years, I doubt if I have more regularly anticipated something as much as a new Blue Highway CD. Ever since their first release in 1995, It's A Long Long Road, this group has introduced new classics into the bluegrass canon with each subsequent project at the same rate as our first [...]
Here we are at the beginning of a new year, when bluegrass bands reshuffle the decks, and sidemen make the jump from group to group. We've already seen some major moves, exacerbated this time around by the dissolution of HighLand Travelers late in 2018. And the last piece of that particular puzzle is now in [...]
This lovely Christmas story is a contribution from Sherrie George, publicist and tour manager for Blue Highway. It is a wonderful reminder that a small action on your part can have a major impact on someone else, especially a child. Once upon a time in the bluegrass-loving land of Southwest Virginia lived a little boy [...]
Blue Highway has a well-earned reputation for consistently choosing and recording the very finest new material introduced in the bluegrass genre. With four of the five members on board for the band's entire run of nearly thirty years, three of them top songwriters, that shouldn't be surprising, but is a remarkable feat all the same. [...] 
This is a feature we are running to memorialize the creative and musical legacy of the late J.D. Crowe, who we lost just before Christmas. We are calling it My Favorite Crowe Lick, and each episode will feature a prominent bluegrass banjo player sharing both their thoughts about Crowe and his influence, and showing us [...] 
A new two-day bluegrass festival hosted by perennial favorites Blue Highway will debut this fall in southwestern Virginia. Blue Highway Fest will premiere October 7-8 in Big Stone Gap, a small community of less than 6,000 located in Wise County, near the far western tip of the state. This part of Virginia has suffered greatly [...] 
Good news for Blue Highway fans! The band's landmark 2012 appearance on Mountain Stage, West Virginia Public broadcasting's flagship program, is set to rerun this weekend on the dozens of NPR affiliates that carry the program all over the US. Running now for more than 30 years with original host Larry Groce, Mountain Stage has become [...] 
Rob Ickes has announced a new course on the music of Blue Highway at Rob's Reso Room, his subscription-based instructional site sponsored by Big Tent Music. Though he performs these days as part of a duo act with guitarist/vocalist Trey Hensley, it was as a founding member of Blue Highway that most people recognized Rob's [...] 
Blue Highway fans have a chance this holiday season to win some one-of-a-kind prizes in the band's 25th Anniversary giveaway this week and next. In an abbreviated 12 days of Christmas motif, there are six chances to enter, one daily from December 26-31. Then on New Years Day, winners will be chosen with as many [...] 
All too often, critics, pundits and the public as a whole seem intent on defining music by genre, opting for generalization simply for the sake of confining certain sounds to a comfortable niche. That, of course, isn’t only unfair, but it also denies opportunity to get to know the music for the quality and creativity [...] 
Here we are at the beginning of a new year, when bluegrass bands reshuffle the decks, and sidemen make the jump from group to group. We've already seen some major moves, exacerbated this time around by the dissolution of HighLand Travelers late in 2018. And the last piece of that particular puzzle is now in [...] 
This lovely Christmas story is a contribution from Sherrie George, publicist and tour manager for Blue Highway. It is a wonderful reminder that a small action on your part can have a major impact on someone else, especially a child. Once upon a time in the bluegrass-loving land of Southwest Virginia lived a little boy [...] 