Mountain Home Music Company has announced the signing of Steve Gulley and Tim Stafford for a duo project, with a debut single expected later this month. The two men are good friends, and songwriting partners of long standing, with better than 70 recorded cuts of songs they have composed as a team. Though both are [...]
The Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Country Music Studies program at East Tennessee State University has announced an online summer series of courses beginning over this next few months. These are available for both students already enrolled in the program who are completing their degrees, and for those outside the program who are simply interested in a [...]
The following comes to us from Jack Tottle, Professor Emeritus, and founder of the East Tennessee State University Bluegrass, Old Time and Country Music Program. Although retired for several years, Jack continues his work to preserve the memories of bluegrass and old time country music's fascinating history and heritage. Throughout American history disasters of one [...]
Over the past 25 years, I doubt if I have more regularly anticipated something as much as a new Blue Highway CD. Ever since their first release in 1995, It's A Long Long Road, this group has introduced new classics into the bluegrass canon with each subsequent project at the same rate as our first [...]
A welcome new trend in bluegrass this past decade or so is the songwriter project, where songsmiths record a full album of their new material and offer it to the market. It only makes sense, as expectations of song demos have risen to near-CD perfection; why not just go ahead and finish the production into [...]
When Tim Stafford puts out a new guitar album, people in the bluegrass and flatpicking worlds pay attention. They don't come around very often, and you have to wait for them to hear the subtleties of his playing in a stripped down setting. In his regular gig with Blue Highway, Tim focuses on supporting the [...]
Tim Stafford of Blue Highway's next album, Acoustic Guitar, won't be released until later this month, but he has created this photo collage video to share the record's sole vocal track, I Am America. It was written by Tim with Bobby Starnes, and they especially wanted the video to hit today to honor this country [...]
Would you be inclined to travel to South Africa to see and photograph plains wildlife in their natural habitat? How about to study guitar with bluegrass master, Tim Stafford? Well... how about both? Tim will be working with Music Safari Workshops in Africa next year on a 10-day excursion through the wilds of Africa. Six [...]
Look who's back in the studio this month. Blue Highway is hard at work again, tracking a new project with their newest member in tow. We caught up with Tim Stafford this evening and he shared a few details. "We just started our 11th studio album and 7th for Rounder at Bobby Starnes's Hat Creek Recording [...]
Over his holiday break from touring with Blue Highway, Tim Stafford took the occasion to get married. He wed Janet Sluss Ratliff on December 20 in a small ceremony with family and friends. Many congratulations to them both! No more sad songs from Tim for 2015?
Mountain Home Music Company has announced the signing of Steve Gulley and Tim Stafford for a duo project, with a debut single expected later this month. The two men are good friends, and songwriting partners of long standing, with better than 70 recorded cuts of songs they have composed as a team. Though both are [...] 
The Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Country Music Studies program at East Tennessee State University has announced an online summer series of courses beginning over this next few months. These are available for both students already enrolled in the program who are completing their degrees, and for those outside the program who are simply interested in a [...] 
The following comes to us from Jack Tottle, Professor Emeritus, and founder of the East Tennessee State University Bluegrass, Old Time and Country Music Program. Although retired for several years, Jack continues his work to preserve the memories of bluegrass and old time country music's fascinating history and heritage. Throughout American history disasters of one [...] 
Over the past 25 years, I doubt if I have more regularly anticipated something as much as a new Blue Highway CD. Ever since their first release in 1995, It's A Long Long Road, this group has introduced new classics into the bluegrass canon with each subsequent project at the same rate as our first [...] 
A welcome new trend in bluegrass this past decade or so is the songwriter project, where songsmiths record a full album of their new material and offer it to the market. It only makes sense, as expectations of song demos have risen to near-CD perfection; why not just go ahead and finish the production into [...] 
When Tim Stafford puts out a new guitar album, people in the bluegrass and flatpicking worlds pay attention. They don't come around very often, and you have to wait for them to hear the subtleties of his playing in a stripped down setting. In his regular gig with Blue Highway, Tim focuses on supporting the [...] 
Tim Stafford of Blue Highway's next album, Acoustic Guitar, won't be released until later this month, but he has created this photo collage video to share the record's sole vocal track, I Am America. It was written by Tim with Bobby Starnes, and they especially wanted the video to hit today to honor this country [...] 
Would you be inclined to travel to South Africa to see and photograph plains wildlife in their natural habitat? How about to study guitar with bluegrass master, Tim Stafford? Well... how about both? Tim will be working with Music Safari Workshops in Africa next year on a 10-day excursion through the wilds of Africa. Six [...] 
Look who's back in the studio this month. Blue Highway is hard at work again, tracking a new project with their newest member in tow. We caught up with Tim Stafford this evening and he shared a few details. "We just started our 11th studio album and 7th for Rounder at Bobby Starnes's Hat Creek Recording [...] 
Over his holiday break from touring with Blue Highway, Tim Stafford took the occasion to get married. He wed Janet Sluss Ratliff on December 20 in a small ceremony with family and friends. Many congratulations to them both! No more sad songs from Tim for 2015? 