Matt Rue, Joe Mullins, and Jeanne Rue Folks in the bluegrass business know Joe Mullins to be a true Renaissance man. Not only is a first-rate banjo player, one of the best tenor singers in our music, and a successful band leader, Joe also manages a string of commercial radio stations in Southern Ohio, and [...]
Earlier this year, Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers did a performance with Alternative Strings, a group of middle and high school students in Centerville, OH who meet after school to learn string music, including traditional mountain tunes. Their director, Doug Eyink, makes a pastime of creating arrangements for the group to match recordings by [...]
Bluegrass legend Bobby Osborne and Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers will participate in a special presentation next Tuesday at the Miami University Regionals in Hamilton, OH. It is jointly sponsored by the University's Appalachian Studies program and The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County as part of the Southwestern Ohio Bluegrass Music Heritage [...]
It's become something of a tradition now at the Shepherdsville Music Barn for Joe Mullins to perform a duet with host Gary Brewer whenever he and the Radio Ramblers stop off there for a show. So when they did a double bill last Friday with Gary and his Kentucky Ramblers, Joe came out to sing [...]
We often think of bluegrass music as an old genre, even though it “officially” didn’t begin until the mid-1940s. However, we’re fortunate it began to grow and flourish in a time when technology was booming, allowing our parents and grandparents to witness and chronicle its very start. People from various backgrounds and connections to the [...]
Congratulations go out today to Duane Sparks, guitarist and vocalist with Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers, and MaKole Schaar who are celebrating the birth of a daughter yesterday. Camdyn Jean Sparks came in at 6 lbs, 6.5 oz, stretching out to 18 inches in length. She was born on November 17 at 12:44 p.m. Everyone is [...]
If you are the type who donates time and treasure to charitable causes, you know how habit-forming it can be. The feeling of satisfaction you get from assisting deserving and worthwhile endeavors is something that many folks cherish. Just so with Joe Mullins and his biannual bluegrass event, the Southern Ohio Indoor Music Festival. Each [...]
For over 5 decades, Southern Ohio has been a hotbed for bluegrass music, tracing back to the briarhoppers heading north for the industrial boom of the '50s and '60s. Supporting a family sometimes meant leaving your native mountains for the city, but these folks brought their beloved mountain music with them, helping soothe their homesick [...]
In addition to his new position as Chair of the IBMA Board of Directors, Joe Mullins is the fearless leader of his own touring bluegrass band, The Radio Ramblers. Already an experienced stage pro when he launched the group in 2006, Mullins had grown up in a bluegrass family, and began his career playing with The Traditional [...]
Today during the annual meeting of the IBMA Board of Directors, Joe Mullins was elected as the new Board Chair. Joe had served previously as the Treasurer of the organization, after having been elected to represent the Artists/Composers/Publishers category by the IBMA membership. He is also the bandleader for Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers and the [...]
Matt Rue, Joe Mullins, and Jeanne Rue Folks in the bluegrass business know Joe Mullins to be a true Renaissance man. Not only is a first-rate banjo player, one of the best tenor singers in our music, and a successful band leader, Joe also manages a string of commercial radio stations in Southern Ohio, and [...] 
Earlier this year, Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers did a performance with Alternative Strings, a group of middle and high school students in Centerville, OH who meet after school to learn string music, including traditional mountain tunes. Their director, Doug Eyink, makes a pastime of creating arrangements for the group to match recordings by [...] 
Bluegrass legend Bobby Osborne and Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers will participate in a special presentation next Tuesday at the Miami University Regionals in Hamilton, OH. It is jointly sponsored by the University's Appalachian Studies program and The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County as part of the Southwestern Ohio Bluegrass Music Heritage [...] 
It's become something of a tradition now at the Shepherdsville Music Barn for Joe Mullins to perform a duet with host Gary Brewer whenever he and the Radio Ramblers stop off there for a show. So when they did a double bill last Friday with Gary and his Kentucky Ramblers, Joe came out to sing [...] 
We often think of bluegrass music as an old genre, even though it “officially” didn’t begin until the mid-1940s. However, we’re fortunate it began to grow and flourish in a time when technology was booming, allowing our parents and grandparents to witness and chronicle its very start. People from various backgrounds and connections to the [...] 
Congratulations go out today to Duane Sparks, guitarist and vocalist with Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers, and MaKole Schaar who are celebrating the birth of a daughter yesterday. Camdyn Jean Sparks came in at 6 lbs, 6.5 oz, stretching out to 18 inches in length. She was born on November 17 at 12:44 p.m. Everyone is [...] 
If you are the type who donates time and treasure to charitable causes, you know how habit-forming it can be. The feeling of satisfaction you get from assisting deserving and worthwhile endeavors is something that many folks cherish. Just so with Joe Mullins and his biannual bluegrass event, the Southern Ohio Indoor Music Festival. Each [...] 
For over 5 decades, Southern Ohio has been a hotbed for bluegrass music, tracing back to the briarhoppers heading north for the industrial boom of the '50s and '60s. Supporting a family sometimes meant leaving your native mountains for the city, but these folks brought their beloved mountain music with them, helping soothe their homesick [...] 
In addition to his new position as Chair of the IBMA Board of Directors, Joe Mullins is the fearless leader of his own touring bluegrass band, The Radio Ramblers. Already an experienced stage pro when he launched the group in 2006, Mullins had grown up in a bluegrass family, and began his career playing with The Traditional [...] 
Today during the annual meeting of the IBMA Board of Directors, Joe Mullins was elected as the new Board Chair. Joe had served previously as the Treasurer of the organization, after having been elected to represent the Artists/Composers/Publishers category by the IBMA membership. He is also the bandleader for Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers and the [...] 