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During last week's World of Bluegrass convention and Wide Open Bluegrass festival, we had the chance to speak with several dozen top artists and songwriters about their careers and recent projects. One of those was Russell Moore, who talked about recent changes with his band, IIIrd Tyme Out, and coming up on their 25th year [...]
Blake Johnson, bass player and harmony singer with IIIrd Tyme Out, is currently hospitalized at Duke University suffering from an unspecified viral illness. Edgar Loudermilk filled in at his previous position this past weekend with the band. At this point it is unknown if Blake will be released in time to join Russell and the guys [...]
On August 30, 2014, Russell Moore and IIIrd Tyme Out stopped in Bob Mitchell’s studio. Russell and the band provided a dynamite 30 minute performance that you can hear on-line. Later in the day, they were the closing act for the Bourbon and Bluegrass festival at the Ohio Water Tower (on the banks of the [...]
Milan Miller started learning guitar around the age of five. Guitar is his primary instrument, but he also plays the mandolin, bass, piano, and "just enough banjo and Dobro to get myself into trouble." Miller's song catalog includes such Balsam Range staples as Calloway County Flood, Burning Georgia Down (written with Mark Bumgarner), Caney Fork [...]
Here's another batch of images sent by Bill Warren from Rudy Fest 2014.
Happy Birthday America! 238 years ago, our founding fathers declared our independence from Great Britain and gave birth to a new nation. The land of the free and the home of the brave proved that a nation for the people and by the people could succeed. Since 1776, the United States of America has seen the [...]
“You throw out a handful of acorns hoping one of them will take root and that’s one right there” said David Shirley, the lone barber of the Drexel Barbershop. Shirley was pointing at a young boy who had recently started playing the banjo. Sitting under the tall pines that line the Catawba Meadows Park, it [...]
This early report from the 2014 edition of the Red, White & Bluegrass festival last week is a contribution from Jessica Boggs, an enthusiastic bluegrass fan in East Tennessee. Sweltering heat couldn't keep fans from coming out to the first day of Red, White & Bluegrass in Morganton, NC this past Thursday. Although temperatures hovered [...]
On Monday, May 26th, it will have been 81 years since the passing of Jimmie Rodgers. A titan of American music, Jimmie Rodgers is considered an influence in country, bluegrass, folk, jazz, blues, rock, pop, Americana, and more. In six short years, "The Father of Country Music" left behind a musical legacy which is still [...]
Sevier County is a unique spot in East Tennessee. The cities of Sevierville, Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg - each well under 10,000 in population - exist almost solely as tourist destinations. Think of a beach town without the beach - with the Smoky Mountains in its place. It all started in the 1930s with the opening [...]
