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Here is another look at RockyGrass 2013 from Shannon Turner.
In addition to Tara Linhardt crawling the campgrounds at Grey Fox last weekend, David Moultrup was capturing more of the scene from the stage. Here is his report and a gallery of fine photos. Grey Fox 2013 showed again why it is one of the crown jewels of the bluegrass community. Hosted by philosopher extraordinaire Ron [...]
For the past few weeks, a song from Aubrey Haynie's 2000 Sugar Hill album, A Man Must Carry On, has been featured as the musical bed for a Subaru commercial airing on national television in the US. The song is a Haynie original, Happy Go Lucky, that features him on mandolin and fiddle, with Bryan Sutton [...]
In the bottom of Shriners' Old National Centre in Indianapolis, IN, a packed house was anxiously awaiting "the one and only second performance" of a band they'd never heard. Noam Pikelny with his friends Ronnie McCoury, Luke Bulla, Barry Bales, and Bryan Sutton took the stage on April 10 and proved, "This ain't a hobby." [...]
This World Oft Can Be, the second full-length release from Della Mae - and their first for Rounder - has been slated for a May 28 release. It was produced by Bryan Sutton, tracked at the old Johnny Cash studio near Nashville, and mixed by celebrated indie-rock engineer Paul Q. Kolderie. All but three tracks were [...]
Here's an update to a story we did last summer... The March edition of Acoustic Guitar magazine has a very interesting story about Bryan’s legendary "Banjo Killer" dreadnought guitar, which was damaged in the devastating Nashville flood of May 2010. In what is predominantly an illustrated article, Dana Bourgeois describes the characteristics that caused Sutton [...]
Noam Pikelny, banjo player with Punch Brothers, is set to use some downtime with the band this year to tour in support of his 2011 solo project, Beat The Devil and Carry A Rail. The record had been nominated for a Grammy in the Best Bluegrass Album category for 2013, an award that was given [...]
Friday was a busy day at Fan Fest, with big names on stage and fans, pickers, and everything in between roaming the Nashville Convention Center from early morning 'till the crack of dawn. Woody Edwards was crawling the halls capturing images from one corner to the other. He spent some time Friday night at the [...]
Judging from the mail I got this week, it seems that people like to read about practicing about as much as they like to practice. A full month of interviews of people who like to practice is pushing it, I know, but I will not be deterred. We are going to do this thing, people! [...]
One of the most popular television series of the 1970s and 1980s was Little House on the Prairie, depicting the lives of the Ingalls family, settlers in late 1800s Minnesota. Fans of the show may remember Charles Ingalls, or “Pa,” occasionally playing the fiddle for his family. The real-life Charles Ingalls was actually an accomplished [...]
