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This report from RockyGrass is a contribution from Jake Schepps and Christian Sedelmyer. Working backwards on Day 2 of the festival: the evening’s closer was a special set of music with a band specifically put together by Béla Fleck, in which he played a superlative set of traditional bluegrass with Alan Bartram, Jason Carter, Ronnie McCoury (all of [...]
I’m not a big Keller Williams fan. With his reliance on electronic looping and hokey humor, he’s an acquired taste that I haven’t quite acquired. On the other hand, I’m a big fan of Del McCoury’s band, both when they play behind the best hair in bluegrass and when they’re out on their own as [...]
Alt-grass hero Keller Williams and the Travelin' McCourys have teamed up for a new album and a series of live shows this summer. Williams is well known to to grassers on the edge for his collaborations with such icons as String Cheese Incident and Yonder Mountain String Band, while the Travelin' McCourys are familiar to [...]
Alan Bartram, bass player for The Del McCoury Band and The Travelin' McCoury's, and his wife Kristina are celebrating yesterday's birth of their first child, Ella Grey Bartram. She was born at 3:39 p.m. (CDT) on April 25, weighing in at 8 lb, 2 oz. Kristina is also part of the bluegrass family. She is [...]
This review of the Travelin' McCourys' set at Podunk comes from Dick Bowden, who we hope will become one of our new correspondents when we launch our expanded site later this year. He will post under the name, "The Old Timer," which refers not only to his status as a formerly young person, but also [...]
