Recently I was chatting with an up-and-coming bluegrass performer about her band. We began to talk about “traditional” bluegrass, and she noted that one of her biggest thrills was to be on the same stage with the Seldom Scene. When […]
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We met our friend Brent Davis and his wife, Susan, for supper on Sunday afternoon in Columbus, OH, after a long drive from Pennsylvania. Irene spent a couple of hours helping to fold T-shirts as preparations for Musicians Against Childhood Cancer progressed, and […]
When Bob Dylan appeared with an electric band at the Newport Folk Festival, in July of 1965, he virtually stopped the folk revival of the 1950s and ‘60s in its tracks and awakened folkie youth culture to the joys of […]
One of bluegrass’ most beloved artists, Ricky Skaggs has lived a blessed life, it would seem. He’s played with Bill Monroe and Ralph Stanley. He joined up with J.D. Crowe and the New South, Emmylou Harris’ Hot Band, and started […]
Jorma Kaukonen is one of the legendary names from the 1960s rock explosion. He was a founding member of Jefferson Airplane, and later started Hot Tuna with Airplane bassist Jack Casady. And he remembers a few concerts during that time […]
The Everly Brothers and the New York Dolls made two very different musical statements, but each group had a lasting impact on Sid Griffin. He points to an Everly Brothers concert in September 1985 at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles […]
Jean Ritchie died a few days ago at the age of 92. For decades, her pure, clear voice brought the sounds and sentiments of Appalachian music to people from Carnegie Hall to A Prairie Home Companion. She played and sang […]
Andy Hall of The Infamous Stringdusters was pondering just how many different songs the band has been playing in its live show. His sound engineer recently surprised him with the answer. “He’s become sort of our archivist,” Hall says by […]
In the beginning, it was all country. The truth and the myth came together on the front porches and parlors as well as at the small village churches, stores with cracker barrels, corner bars, and honky-tonks … all the places […]
Merlefest – which is taking place this weekend in Wilkesboro, NC – was the first music festival we attended, and is still the largest one. It was dedicated to the memory of Eddy Merle Watson. But, as memory of Merle […]
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