Many of us have grown up musically with Sierra Hull from her youngest years in Byrdstown, TN, where she was born in 1991 into a tightly knit family where music was played and enjoyed. Given a fiddle she had requested at age […]
Many of us have grown up musically with Sierra Hull from her youngest years in Byrdstown, TN, where she was born in 1991 into a tightly knit family where music was played and enjoyed. Given a fiddle she had requested at age […]
A bluegrass festival represents a very special kind of community-building each time it occurs. My wife and I just spent five days, including the attendant elements of getting to, participating in, and departing for another year, at one such event. […]
Ten years with the same lineup is practically unheard of in bluegrass, and while technically speaking, Blue Highway doesn’t quite qualify — banjoist Jason Burleson dropped out for a year or so halfway through that stretch — to focus on […]
Blue Highway’s albums and live shows have always been anchored by strong gospel material, much of it performed a cappella. Wondrous Love continues in that vein, combining traditional material from A.P. Carter, Bill Monroe and Jimmy Martin with originals from […]
Growing up far from Kentucky, bluegrass always came through an old tube radio (a 1948 Zenith; it still works), on scratchy vinyl, distant, desperate, hungry voices scratching at black night like a wet cat at the window. I’m still an […]
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