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The first part of Formlessness Into Form, Chris Henry's film on the creative process in the bluegrass world which we previewed last week, is now available online. It's an interesting, if a bit offbeat documentary investigation, consisting almost entirely of interviews with bluegrass personalities discussing the questions at hand: where does the creative urge come from, [...]
Anyone who follows trends in audio recording is aware of the explosion of home studios, and the resulting bloom in amateur to semi-pro engineers. Coupled with the relative ease in distributing music in the digital marketplace, there is a concomitant burst of new sounds to sample. Of course the music varies widely in quality, running [...]
Chris Henry has ambitious plans for the summer of 2012. He and his group, The Hardcore Grass, intend to record three albums in Nashville over the next few months. As he explains in his Kickstarter video below, they will cut one project of original material, one of Gospel favorites and another of bluegrass standards. Hardcore [...]
The Archetones are a new alt-county duo featuring Chris Henry on mandolin and electric guitar. Chris comes from the bluegrass Henry family - mom Murphy and dad Red are both celebrated entrepreneurs and musicians - which also spawned another music pro in sister Casey. He shared a video from his new project, along with a [...]
Today being Bill Monroe's birthday it seems fitting to discuss a new CD from young Monroe-style mandolinist Chris Henry. The CD is titled Monroe Approved. Now that may seem like an overly ambiteous title for one so young, but it's actually quite fitting. We've all heard the stories of Bill placing his infamous cowboy hat [...]
The International Bluegrass Music Museum is hosting two Monroe-Style Mandolin Camps this month. The first camp runs September 8-10 and the second one September 15-17, 2006. The camps feature some great instruction from Mike Compton, Skip Gorman, David Long, Red Henry, Chris Henry, and Butch Waller. Registration is limited to 40 students in each camp [...]
