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Bad news for Boxcars fans looking forward to catching the group this weekend. They have had to cancel their shows scheduled at The Down Home in Johnson City, TN and The Mountaineer Opry in Milton, WV due to illness. Lead singer Keith Garrett reports that he has lost his voice due to a severe upper [...]
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.
Thanks to Mike Kelly for this batch of photos from the first Rocky Top Bluegrass Festival in the newly-renamed Rocky Top, TN. Mike says the festival went well, though a rough weather forecast kept the audience numbers down on Saturday. Luckily the storms stayed away until after the show was over.
The Spinney Brothers opened the second day of the 2015 Palatka Bluegrass Festival. They are becoming crowd favorites at every show. The VW Boys then brought their unique combination of comedy, music, and magic to the stage. They are always a hit. Dry Branch Fire Squad performed for the first of two days. Ron Thomason’s [...]
With founding member John Bowman having announced his departure from The Boxcars earlier this month, the band has today welcomed new member Gary Hultman to the group. Gary is a student in the Bluegrass, Country & Old Time Music program at East Tennessee State Universit and will add his resonator guitar, and lead and harmony singing, to the [...]
John Bowman, one of the five founding members of bluegrass supergroup The Boxcars, has announced that he is leaving the band. Over the past few years, Bowman has been increasingly focusing his energy towards preaching and singing in churches, often along the route he travels with the band. Today he has announced his intention to [...]
Here's a bluegrass match made in heaven, for those of you who were unable to attended the first annual Five String Fest in North Carolina earlier this month. J.D. Crowe sat in with The Boxcars, and the folks at Mountain Home Music captured them on video backstage, running through some tunes. [jwplayer player="1" mediaid="58238"] [...]
John Bowman has been a bluegrass guy most of his life, and because of his particular talents as a singer and multi-instrumentalist, we's been able to ply his trade at the highest levels of our music. He played guitar with both Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver and Alison Krauss & Union Station, fiddle with J.D. Crowe [...]
Billboard, who publishes the (supposedly) quintessential music charts, have released their year-end chart of the Top 15 Bluegrass Albums of 2013. 15. Leaving Eden - Carolina Chocolate Drops 14. Brothers of the Highway - Dailey & Vincent 13. The Living Years - The Isaacs 12. Ahoy! - The Punch Brothers 11. Hammer Down - The Steeldrivers 10. The Gospel Side of Dailey & Vincent - Dailey & [...]
My mailbox and inbox overflowed with music in 2013, as sure a sign as any that bluegrass is alive and well. There’s good news and bad news about that. The good news is that much of that music was very well done. That’s the bad news, too, at the moment, because I’m trying to winnow [...]
