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Great songwriting teams are an alchemy of negotiated creativity. Regardless of how the team works, an agreement must be struck between the two as to what aspect of a song takes precedence: words or music. Sometimes the teams easily agree on where to strike the balance — sometimes, not. Communication and a like-minded vision helps the [...]
It's a double dose of Del and Woody this afternoon at Bluegrass Today! The Del McCoury Band is going all out to spread the word about their latest CD, a unique collaboration between Del and the late Woody Guthrie. This morning we had an interview with Del about the new project, and the unique experience of [...]
Two masterful musicians from different genres have come together for a new CD despite the fact that one of them passed away nearly a half century ago. The legendary Del McCoury releases a collaborative work with the late Woody Guthrie titled Del and Woody this Friday, April 15. McCoury didn’t set out to do the [...]
After several years of promising and planning, the unlikely collaboration between Del McCoury and Woody Guthrie is scheduled to arrive on record April 15. The bluegrass warbler and the iconic folk singer never met, and in fact Guthrie passed away in 1967, before McCoury's meteoric rise to superstardom in the '90s. But across the boundary of [...]
The Mountain Song Festival, hosted each year in September by The Steep Canyon Rangers in Brevard, NC to benefit the Boys & Girls Club of Transylvania County, appears to have been another great success. Artists from all over the world performed for a large and enthusiastic audience at the Brevard Music Center. Rangers banjo man Graham [...]
Thanks to Bob Compere for this batch of photos from last weekend's Bloomin' Bluegrass Festival & Chili Cookoff in Farmer's Branch, TX, just north of Dallas.
At last weekend's Bloomin' Bluegrass Festival and Chili Cook-Off in Texas, Del McCoury was presented with the Bluegrass Star Award from the Bluegrass Heritage Foundation. Since 2010, the Foundation has presented this award to a bluegrass artist who exemplifies contemporary bluegrass, and carries it to audiences of all types. Previous recipients include Rhonda Vincent, J.D. Crowe, [...]
The Del McCoury Band after a set at the 2025 Red, White & Bluegrass - photo © Laura Tate Ridge Laura Tate Ridge shared these photos from Friday night and Saturday at the 2015 Red, White & Bluegrass Festival.
Shelly Swanger was on hand at ROMP 2015, and just sent us these images from the festival.
To help promote their show this week as a part of Bluegrass Nights at The Ryman in Nashville, Sierra Hull and Del McCoury took a tour through the historic building, with a video camera in tow. Sierra got Del to share some memories from his first visit to see the Opry there as a boy, [...]
