Last weekend, Barbara Martin Stephens, at age 83 an energetic, warm, articulate woman, came to the Sertoma Bluegrass Festival in Florida to tell the story of her life with “The King of Bluegrass,” Jimmy Martin. Her book, Don’t Give Your […]
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This question popped up on my Facebook feed on Monday morning: “In your opinion, is bluegrass music on the decline, or it it growing? And what will it be like in 20 years??” The writer, in his explanation, went on […]
It’s January third and many bluegrass musicians have been, more or less, on hiatus. Some notable festivals occur during the cold months, but, in a genre whose most popular manifestation has, historically at least, been outdoors at festivals and pickins, […]
This is the 16th year for Musicians Against Childhood Cancer to run at Hoover-Y Park in Lochbourne, OH. In 2000, Mandy Adkins died of an aggressive brain stem tumor at the age of 19, after treatment at St. Jude Children’s […]
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 […]
In 1972, Carl Fleischhauer photographed J.D. Crowe at his mobile home in Lexington, Kentucky. Black and white. Cadillac parked out front. Window-unit air conditioner. The epitome of cool. This is that J.D. Crowe. Almost. If your Crowe touchstone is his […]
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