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Frank Baker has uploaded a big batch of photos from Saturday at the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival. Looks like a full day of music.
From the moment I had the new solo project from Blue Highway bass player Wayne Taylor in my hands, I couldn't wait to hear what it sounded like. I won't leave you in suspense — it's great. Appropriately titled ("long overdue" comes to mind), it's his first solo recording since becoming a founding member of [...]
In one of the most appropriately titled projects in recent memory, Blue Highway bass player and lead vocalist Wayne Taylor has just released his first solo project since joining the group, It's About Time. I had a chance to speak with Wayne recently about the project and he offered a few comments: "Although Tim [Stafford] and the guys suggested I [...]
Catching up with reso-monster Rob Ickes this week, we learned that he has an upcoming show as the featured guest with the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra, a big band of the sort that was the basis for pop music in the 1930s and '40s. This "traditional" 17-piece group has a 12 year history, under the direction of trumpeter Vance [...]
Say one thing about 2011: It was a terrific year for lovers of bluegrass music, both traditionalists and big tenters. In fact, there were so many top-notch albums issued last year that I had trouble figuring out my Top 10 favorites. I would have had the same problem with a Top 20, too, but the [...]
I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas. My household was filled with the giving and receiving of Stanley Brothers’ LPs, Merle Haggard DVDs, the new Crowe Brothers record, and Lonesome Dove. I had a great time spending time with loved ones and celebrating the birth of Christ. I hope everyone else’s was similar. [...]
We checked in this week with Rick Hayes, who most of us know from his many years playing mandolin with The Gibson Brothers. Rick left the group in November 2008 to focus his energies on his instrument-building work, and has had success with his Hayes guitars and mandolins. But no matter how much you try [...]
Anyone who is new to bluegrass – listener, artist, writer, producer – and many who have been doing it for years, should be required to listen to Sounds of Home, the new release from Blue Highway on Rounder. Everything about this project screams a lesson that is too often lost in this genre, and many others: [...]
Dennis Jones, our bluegrass buddy from WNCW, sent along this gallery of photos from last weekend's Mountain Song Festival in Brevard, NC. The festival is hosted each year by Steep Canyon Rangers, with proceeds going to benefit area Boys and Girls Clubs, and educational opportunities for both adults and children in south central North Carolina. [...]
Frank Baker was on hand at the Gettysburg fall festival last weekend, and send along a plethora of fine photographs - so many, in fact, that we will have to publish them in multiple posts over the next few days. Let's start with Blue Highway from their Friday afternoon set, and mingling with fans in [...]
