Bands form, break up, coalesce, and disappear all the time. Talented side musicians decide they have what it takes to front a band and go off to form their own group to express their own vision of what bluegrass is. […]
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Country music in America has long marketed towards and embodied an eclectic blend of common folk: typically, southern, lower-class, God-fearing, hard-working, blue-collar white men, found in Appalachian homes and hollers scattered well beneath the Mason-Dixon line. From the earliest decades […]
This Thanksgiving just passed, Dailey and Vincent certainly had no shortage of blessings to be thankful for. Ten years into a highly celebrated career, they marked a milestone when they performed their 100th show at the Ryman in December 2016, […]
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in our Winter 2016/Bluegrass Beyond issue of the No Depression quarterly journal. When we’re not running a subscription drive, everything in the journal is exclusive to print. Subscribe today for just $6 per month and never […]
Last week, I was shocked and deeply disappointed to read — first in a Facebook post, then in Bluegrass Today — the daily online news source for the bluegrass community, that WAMU’s BluegrassCountry.org, would be leaving us on Dec. 31 unless a new owner […]
Last weekend, we attended a well-established festival near Palatka, Florida, where we’ve been coming since 2006. It’s promoted by Norman Adams, who books and operates nine prominent and mostly traditional bluegrass festivals up and down the East Coast. He’s careful […]
The stage is often small – an open front shed with room on the stage for five microphones, monitors, and a few lights, almost enough to allow members of the audience to recognize who’s onstage. Members of the band form […]
Jamie Dailey just finished nine years working with Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver. Darrin Vincent spent the better part of a decade with Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder. Both Skaggs and Lawson are known for putting together powerful traditional bluegrass ensembles, […]
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