Patty Loveless was eleven years old when her parents picked up and left their home in Pikeville, a small mining town in southeastern Kentucky, to rent a place a couple hundred miles west in Louisville. It was hardly a happy […]
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On the eve of putting the finishing touches on his new album, No More Mr. Lucky, Randall Bramblett was going over its songs with his wife, looking for common themes and traits. See Through Me, his exceptional 1998 album and […]
There’s a breathless quality to much of bluegrass singer Rhonda Vincent’s promotional material; “too good to be mortal,” a choice quote from former Billboard country music editor Ed Morris, appears on almost every piece. But here’s the funny thing: When […]
Today’s bluegrass seems to be performed largely by instrument contest winners — young men who locked themselves in their rooms at age 12 to practice and who forgot to come out and have a life. So longtime bluegrass fans welcome […]
He made a mess of this town. But you wouldn’t know it from his yard. Scott Miller, a.k.a. “A. Scott Miller,” onetime denizen of Knoxville’s city neighborhoods and seedy bars, a man who has watched entire months of nights blur […]
Mention the name John Edwards in North Carolina nowadays, and most people will think you’re referring to the state’s junior senator — the one who isn’t Jesse Helms. In certain circles around Chapel Hill, however, the name carries another significance. […]
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